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in thread the greedy diamond, or leggo my STDIN

All that does is cause the program to wait 5 seconds before exiting. It still doesn't receive any input from the keyboard (because, as others have pointed out above, STDIN isn't connected to the keyboard).

And <code> tags are your friends.

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