Notices by Uli Kusterer (Not a kitteh) (uliwitness@chaos.social)

TIL that “very” came from veritas, “truth”. So it was “literally” before literally.

Same for “clip” where you can clip a thing to another these days, not just clip things off.

Oh great, IMDb has started sending out “trending” e-mails every 2 days. Who TF thought this might be something *anyone* might want on by default???

This pixel art detective game looks interesting: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2450840/Detective_Dotson/

BTW, if anyone at Apple wants to do people who have to build C/C++ with Swift a favor, could you get someone to look into this feature request to let us set C warning flags in SwiftPM?

FB16850513

https://www.cloudfest.com/world-server-throwing-championship

Why is the fuse on a bomb called the same as an electrical fuse?

Anyone have a recommendation for a C++ Markdown-to-HTML library that you’ve used that has no other dependencies? #markDown #cplusplus

How does one specify localizations in Apple’s app store?

Can you choose arbitrary country/language pairs? Just official/largest languages of each country? Just country?

Ariel Michaeli on @DeepDishSwift podcast suggested to e.g. use the Vietnamese localization for extra English keywords, and won’t that mean that someone who only speaks Vietnamese and French will see your app store in a language they don’t know, even if you have a French localization?

Not as good as the original, but still a bop:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLWaJoy7iCM

*comes up for air* *loud gasp* INTERNET! I HAVE INTERNET!

Is a Fren Ship a Star Trek thing? 🤪

Woke up a bit early today, so decided to write a C++ class that implements a copy-on-write string that's a drop-in replacement for std::string (*not* for std::basic_string!).

https://github.com/uliwitness/cow_str/blob/main/cow_str/cow_str.hpp

#cplusplus #cpp

Little-known #macOS Finder trick:

You can right-click rename multiple files and e.g. replace parts of the names with other text, or even do more complex changes.

If you walk to work for any duration of time, and you can re-route to cut through a park, I highly recommend arranging for that. I meet so many cute dogs each morning…

@Addmen Accessibility Description:

ChristopherE on Bluesky writes:

In 1890, the X and Y chromosomes were discovered. It was found that the men who were tested had 46 chromosomes, including an X and a Y, while women who were tested also had 46 chromosomes, including 2 X chromosomes.
So obviously the conclusion was that the Y chromosome defined masculinity.

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@quephird You got this. Just be yourself. Unless you can be Batman. Then always be Batman.

Can you no longer register a typeWildCard AppleEvent handler with NSAppleEventManager?

Anyone know what this "Low Power Mode" on macOS is for? (Other Options are “Always”, "Only on Battery”, “Only on Power Adapter”)

Is that like the iPhone’s thing when you’re low on battery, where it turns off important functionality, or is this more like Windows where you can optimize for performance or for battery? Anyone know what the default is? Because I don’t remember whether I changed this.

@lfa Or maybe life is too short to use a language that has so many wrong defaults, undefined/implementation-defined behaviors etc., when, instead of trying to remember all the things you shouldn’t do, you could just use a language that does the right thing by default, freeing your brain up to actually design and plan the parts that make your program special.

Maybe I'll finally know what I'm doing and will learn after another 29 years of writing C.

Oh wow. Ubisoft must really not be doing well. They released an NFT game: https://www.inverse.com/gaming/ubisoft-nft-rpg-champions-tactics