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

Say, is there a trick in C++ to make to_string() work for any type?

If I have

using namespace std;

and then just write

to_string(foo)

it will prefer my local namespace's to_string() and error when given an int, instead of picking std::to_string() for those.

Do I really have to add all variants of

inline string to_string(int n) { return std::to_string(n); }

to my namespace to be able to just say to_string(foo) for any type and make it work?

#CPlusPlus #CPP #CXX #programming

TIL that Boris from Men In Black is the guy from Flight of the Conchords.

@kc Ich meine, ein statistisches LLM-Modell zur Bilderkennung könnte ich mir ja als hilfreich vorstellen. Wenn man wo steht, wo ein Straßenarbeiter die Rippenplatten einfach in den Straßenbelag gemischt hat, oder ein Wenig mehr Entfernungswahrnehmung möchte.

Aber einfach nur ChatGPT für Anfragen im Stock? Kompletter Unsinn im sozialverantwortlichen Cosplay ... 🤪

Related: eBook authors constantly changing their covers and me just remembering "of the two shopping centre romances, it was the one with the red cover" and neither of them has a red cover anymore.
https://social.v.st/@quixoticgeek/114559978371011132

@siracusa Regarding the „open in new window“ icon on „pay outside App Store“ buttons mentioned on @atpfm: I‘d love if that got established as the „pay less“ icon 😈

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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