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Type in Morse code by repeatedly slamming your laptop lid (github.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17528189

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[–] devilish666@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Now write code with it
I dare you
<⁠(⁠￣⁠︶⁠￣⁠)⁠>

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Do the characters even have morse code assigned to them?

[–] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I found those:

Underscore		. . _ _ . _
Addition		. _ . _ .
Subtraction		_ . . . . _ 
Multiplication		_ . . _
Division		_ _ _ . . .
Equal			_ . . . _
Right Parenthesis	_ . _ _ . _
Left Parenthesis	_ . _ _ .

But this isn't enough for programming, square and curly brackets, carets, ampersand, pipe, tilda... I think it's gonna be pretty challenging

[–] Turun@feddit.de 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

C is so old, it has a way to work around that! In case your 198x keyboard was not set to ASCII you know. Not sure if Morse covers all the characters needed for the replacement trigraphs though.

https://riptutorial.com/c/example/23858/trigraphs

[–] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 months ago

I love when there are solutions for every weird use case ^^

[–] bruhduh@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Please delete the .m. from the Wikipedia link so it's correct for desktop users.

[–] bruhduh@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Did

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

Thanks!

[–] 14th_cylon@lemm.ee -3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What if desktop users delete it themselves, if they don't like it?

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The default link redirects for mobile automatically, it doesn't work the other way around.

[–] 14th_cylon@lemm.ee -4 points 2 months ago

Ok, that's fair point, but it still isn't other people's job to serve you links just how you like them.

[–] cheddar@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Can't you extend it by adding extra bits? Though typing them would be problematic as the length will be growing too.

[–] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago

It would be a blow to render this typing method slightly slower, definitely a deal breaker 😏

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

COW (a moo themed brainfuck variant) would work.

[–] Hupf@feddit.de 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

https://xkcd.com/378/

[–] SatouKazuma@programming.dev 0 points 1 month ago

I'm quite sure that atmospheric wind currents don't change the direction of cosmic rays, lol.

[–] maniel@sopuli.xyz 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

the hinges disliked that

[–] 14th_cylon@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

well, he chose machine with metallic hinges, but still...

[–] maniel@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 months ago

All the hinges I've seen were metallic, what fails most of the time is the metal->plastic interface

[–] bruhduh@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Break off laptop display morse% speedrun

[–] Norodix@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Ugh, and the code is so bad. I love it!

[–] ricdeh@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Poor sweet little hinges 😭