Input: Help, I'm trapped in a software factory!

Output: Thrilled to announce I’m deep-diving into a high-impact, immersive experience at a world-class software factory! Embracing the grind and leveling up my synergy in this fast-paced ecosystem. Grateful for the opportunity to be so "locked in" to the process! #GrowthMindset #SoftwareEngineering #Innovation #Hustle

The first part sounds like it's US-specific; campaign donations are less of a thing, and more strongly controlled, in Europe. The second could happen here too, though, and probably does.

I was indeed referring to the US. I don't know much about corruption in other countries.

That sounds like it's in the US? That's a known third-world country, in this respect at least.

If you don't think this would happen even in an 'idyllic' scandi country or wherever, you're mistaken.

No way, the Norwegian Prime Minister certainly was not doing anything corrupt or trading any criminal favors with Epstein, that's all just a vast conspiracy theory.

At the time it was introduced it was understandable, and Microsoft also needed some time to implement it before that of course. But by about 2000 it was clear that UTF-8 was going to win, and Microsoft should have just properly implemented it in NT instead of dithering about for the next almost 20 years. Linux had quite good support of it by then.

I have something similar, I tend to describe it to people as a light tinnitus. It's a permanent high tone, but I don't usually notice it unless it's very silent around me or I intentionally tune into it, and even then it's not very loud. Never mentioned it to a doctor. I think I know which loud disco I got it from when I was about 7.

Which tool can do that kind of wizardry? I've seen either but not both.

I have similar types of bindings. I just found a keyboard that can use ZMK. There's quite a few out there.

ZMK (or it's free software cousin QMK) are super flexible and you can create lots of custom behaviors for keys (tap/hold behaviors, double press, layering, etc...). It takes some time and effort to learn how to set it all up. Some of the more complicated behaviors require using their dsl for mapping the keys instead of their GUI editor. Considering the ridiculous amount of hours I spend at my computer using a keyboard, I felt it was worth the investment in learning.

On macOS I use Karabiner-Elements to do the exact same thing. Also, my config is only applied in terminals, everywhere else the original functionality is kept. So, I'd say it is quite flexible.

Karabiner on macos, keyd on Linux.

Nah. NeoVim a tiny little bit, maybe.

MS could easily have added proper UTF-8 support in the early 2000s instead of the late 2010s.

Yep. It would've been a better landing pad than UTF-16 since they had to migrate off UCS-2 anyway.

And thats a fact you don't need to learn in high school, at least you didn't in my time.

> the effort and cost to download an ad-blocker that automatically removes the prompt to accept/deny entirely is practically zero and the amount of clicks you'd save yourself would quickly exceed the clicks it took to install the blocker.

For less-often used, e.g., non-English language sites, these often leave a site in an unusable state, e.g., non-scrollable. I often have to go into the developer tools to fix a site manually, sometimes hunting for the element to fix if it's not body or html.