The black-footed cat (Felis nigripes), also called the small-spotted cat, is the smallest wild cat in Africa, having a head-and-body length of 35β52 cm (14β20 in). Despite its name, only the soles of its feet are black or dark brown. With its bold small spots and stripes on the tawny fur, it is well camouflaged, especially on moonlit nights. It bears black streaks running from the corners of the eyes along the cheeks, and its banded tail has a black tip.
The first black-footed cat known to science was discovered in the northern Karoo of South Africa and described in 1824. It is endemic to the arid steppes and grassland savannas of Southern Africa. It was recorded in southern Botswana, but only a few authentic records exist in Namibia, in southern Angola and in southern Zimbabwe. Due to its restricted distribution, it has been listed as a vulnerable species on the IUCN Red List since 2002. The population is suspected to be declining due to poaching of prey species for human consumption as bushmeat, persecution, traffic accidents, and predation by herding dogs.
The black-footed cat has been studied using radio telemetry since 1993. This research allowed direct observation of its behaviour in its natural habitat. It usually rests in burrows during the day and hunts at night. It moves between 5 and 16 km (3 and 10 mi) on average in search of small rodents and birds. It feeds on 40 different vertebrates and kills up to 14 small animals per night. It can catch birds in flight, jumping up to 1.4 m (5 ft) high, and also attacks mammals and birds much heavier than itself. A female usually gives birth to two kittens during the Southern Hemisphere summer between October and March. They are weaned at the age of two months and become independent after four months of age at the latest.
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i forgot how to code, now how can i get better job even with these papers that are now completely useless since i forgot python?
what the fuck to make to get that power back? hell, where can i learn the best?
i always wanted to make shitty games in godot but got really confused making levels that start with cutscenes for a shitpost mario-like
No one really knows how to code, we are just dialectically shoveling shit using the labor of our proletarian predecessors to give the owning class more money. Frameworks, APIs, SQLite or No Sql, React-native? Statements dreamed up from decades of un-organized parallel development in the pursuit of profit.
If you want to re-learn programming (and maybe rediscover your passion for this horrible demon spawn of mathematics and engineering) you can start with learning a Lisp language like Emacs or Clojure since those languages expose essential concepts in programming that you can apply to any other language or system (learning about maps, filters and reducers have transformed the way I think about problems and data structures). Then just re-learn fundamentals: HTTP, systems programming, discrete maths (data structures like graphs and trees), object oriented programming concepts (polymorphism is a huge one you'll see everywhere), databases, networking, etc. You really want to get to a point where your questions during coding are "where is the [[ Thing I know I need? ]]" rather than "what do I need, where do I start?" since the former is answered by a reference manual or web search and the latter will have an infinite amount of outside answers.
thanks but jesus fucking christ i just wanted to make a game where you jump on joe biden as a recolored mario why do i have to metaphorically create a rocket just to have the strength to make that game
I swear 4 years of CS in uni is not enough for the rabbit hole this field is.
Theres also the "go at it" approach where you just learn as you go which is more fun but also not what recruiters want to hear when they interview.
what the fuck do recruiters want from me????
there was one time i tried to be an english teacher but i had NO fucking clue how to answer to "what makes you stand out"
like... what the fuck am i anymore?
Death to kkkapitalism. Death to HR