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allison

this table of C escape characters is making the same noises as I do when I have to wake up early

\?
\nnn
\xhh...
\uhhhh
\Uhhhhhhhh
18 comments
Riley S. Faelan

@grumpygiant

"I cast a trigraph!"
"Okay. Roll for standards compliance."

@aparrish

Joerg Jaspert :debian:

@aparrish
Cool, you include notes in your wake up noises. Love that. 😃

L.J. is the cis Minipang

@Ganneff [note 3: I must do a serious reevaluation whether this job/event is truly worth it, and need to sleep on the matter] @aparrish

otheorange_tag

@aparrish Or a pilot contacting the tower! (or their S.O.)

Michael Gurski

@aparrish when I have to wake up at all without my body forcing me...

DELETED

@aparrish Wait until you get into variable typing and scoping in C. Your morning coffee will literally overflow :D

DELETED

@aparrish @hotkey To me it looks like a transcription of that iconic noise from the 90s/early 00s: dial-up modems establishing a network connection.

Robert Jan Schutten

@aparrish You made me read the whole Wikipedia entry on escape sequences in C. Didn’t know all of them & have been writing C code for decades…

wordsmith ⁂

@aparrish \xhh... needs no explanation, we've all felt that. \? cannot be explained with a mere note.

scmbradley

@aparrish reminds me of working on part of our code where for some reason we used strings to do some configurable pattern matching. Anyway, autocomplete picked up on the strings and, well, it's a mood.

Autocomplete is giving a lot of options of the genre "AAA", "Aaaa" etc
Dark Sheep Arts

@aparrish I don't even understand that coding language and the table still made me laugh so much that I snorted a cup of tea.

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