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The point of the book is that he does not have a heart of gold, and must find redemption outside of himself. The book as a whole is a window into this wretched soul and the devastation he wreaks on himself by his own actions, led by his blackened worldview.


When I used those libraries in .NET, they simply did not function, for unspecified reasons. I boiled it down to the smallest possible example, based on their docs, and data simply never made it through the flow at all. It was baffling to me, but not an uncommon experience with various components of the core of .NET (not to be confused with .NET Core).


If you checked the /content/ of those classes, however, I suspect you would find that it does not actually cover the scope you expect.


Colorado has shown its willingness and eagerness to prosecute purported violations of this kind before, several (two?) of which have ended up before the Supreme Court previously. Their expectation that they would run afoul of Colorado is perfectly legitimate.


UW CSE student from 2009-2012; there was an optional course that blazed through *NIX and shell fundamentals, and I credit it to kickstarting my ability to use the system well. Using GDB, valgrind and the like were part of a 300-level basic systems programming course.


That is an entirely different phenomenon.


OK, what makes it different?


Hmm, looking further. It seems the linguistic phenomenon of code-switching is one accurate name for this, but there's also a sociological phenomenon of code-switching that is related but very different - intentional shifting based on social context or group that you're addressing.

Elsewhere in this same thread, someone was assuming the sociological cause for Spanglish, instead of the more organic linguistic cause that happens anywhere you have two cultures and languages in close contact. I suspect this blurred definition makes talking about this more complicated now, since sociological code-switching has become part of America's racialized sociology discussion.

If I had my druthers I'd split those two very different phenomena into separate terms, because they don't even produce the same kinds of linguistic patterns.

(Thanks for asking me to justify, my assumption was quite wrong regarding the scope of the term.)


> intentional shifting based on social context or group that you're addressing.

Isn't that register-switching?

It gets confusing in English, because the classier registers in English involves the use of more words of French, Latin or Greek origin, the less-classy registers rely more on anglo-saxon words.


With customization through Oryx, I've been able to make Ergodox / Moonlander quite amenable to many games that use MKB, especially those that make use of number keys, such as MMOs, by overlaying 1-5+macro with various combinations of double taps, holds, and tap-holds to represent 1-0-= and C-_ variants. So while it takes some customization, you can make such keyboards quite tractable for single-handed modes for individual pieces of software or for general use, with practice.


The article uses the qualifier 'exciting' and cites specific examples of what the author considers 'exciting'. Leaving that qualifier in the headline makes this far less panicky than it first sounds.


Hopefully someone can fix the title on here. I was misled.


Never underestimate the benefit of a fresh pair of eyes!


Comeau (the author of this post) has beta-published a React course, so keep your eyes peeled.


His CSS course is fantastic so I think I can safely recommend this one too.


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