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> And we as a people, especially millennials and Gen X-ers prone to such intense nostalgia, must also reject the 80s, which I know you hate to hear, but that you must hear. It is essential in the fight against fascism.
I recognize that I've indulged in 80s nostalgia quite a bit in the past year or so, especially retreating into my childhood Apple II memories. No more. Time to live in the present.
Trump, 80s Nostalgia, And The Rejection of Fascism
Yearning for the 1980s lies at the heart of the fascist project, whether millennials and Gen X-ers like it or notDenny Carter (Bad Faith Times)
![panel 1: quitting a terminal program isn't always easy
person (thinking): "I pressed Ctrl-C 17 times and NOTHING HAPPENED"
panel 2: ways to quit
Ctrl-C - the default
Ctrl-D - if you're at a prompt in a REPL >>>
q - if it's a full screen program
Ctrl-\ - sometimes works if Ctrl-C doesn't
kill -9 - the last resort
panel 3: how Ctrl-D works
programs that read input will usually have some code like this:
text = read_line()
if (text == EOF) {
exit()
}
Ctrl-D is how you send an EOF to the program ("I'm done!")
important: Ctrl-D ONLY works if you press it on an empty line
panel 4: how Ctrl-C works *
* unless your program is in "raw mode", we'll talk about that later
person: "ctrl-C"
terminal emulator: "ok, C is the 3rd letter of the alphabet, I'll write 3 to the tty"
OS terminal driver: ah, a 3, that means I should send the SIGINT signal to the current program
program: ooh, a SIGINT, I will [shutdown gracefully, immediately exit, ignore it, stop a subtask, etc]
* unless your program is in "raw mode", we'll talk about that later
panel 5: some programs have weird quitting incantations
for example every text editor (vim, nano, emacs, etc) has its own completely unique way to quit](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/605679 "panel 1: quitting a terminal program isn't always easy
person (thinking): \"I pressed Ctrl-C 17 times and NOTHING HAPPENED\"
panel 2: ways to quit
Ctrl-C - the default
Ctrl-D - if you're at a prompt in a REPL >>>
q - if it's a full screen program
Ctrl-\ - sometimes works if Ctrl-C doesn't
kill -9 - the last resort
panel 3: how Ctrl-D works
programs that read input will usually have some code like this:
text = read_line()
if (text == EOF) {
exit()
}
Ctrl-D is how you send an EOF to the program (\"I'm done!\")
important: Ctrl-D ONLY works if you press it on an empty line
panel 4: how Ctrl-C works *
* unless your program is in \"raw mode\", we'll talk about that later
person: \"ctrl-C\"
terminal emulator: \"ok, C is the 3rd letter of the alphabet, I'll write 3 to the tty\"
OS terminal driver: ah, a 3, that means I should send the SIGINT signal to the current program
program: ooh, a SIGINT, I will [shutdown gracefully, immediately exit, ignore it, stop a subtask, etc]
* unless your program is in \"raw mode\", we'll talk about that later
panel 5: some programs have weird quitting incantations
for example every text editor (vim, nano, emacs, etc) has its own completely unique way to quit")
Jiří Pavlík
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