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bde

@bde@functional.cafe

Interested in software development, photography, math, physics, cooking, and baking. The worst kind of dilettante.

Hashtags: #Haskell #Nix #Swift #iOS #Mac #macOS #zsh #math #photography #physics #ParticlePhysics #RochesterNY #ClassicalMusic #WDW #Epcot

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bde, to random
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“While it is already possible to send iMessages with bubble effects or full-screen effects, such as invisible ink or confetti, the text effects would allow you to add animations to individual words within a message.” — MacRumors

You know, I would find it a lot more useful if they added support for, like, italicized text? Monospaced text? I’ll grant that I am An Old but those would add a lot more to my texts than more effects.

(Add the effects too, I don’t mind! But basic formatting seems like a more fundamental feature to me.)

bde, to random
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I have not called
the store
that installs
air conditioners

even though
I said I would call
yesterday

Forgive me
I’ll call today
All right
I’ll call now

RosaCtrl, to SwiftUI
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Am I the only one that thinks deprecating this modifier was a mistake? Any available alternative requires to keep the state in two properties, one for the data, another for its visibility, super annoying, so what I’m missing? https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swiftui/view/alert%28item:content:%29

bde,
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@RosaCtrl That’s an annoying change 😐

Maybe you can at least avoid having two properties by defining an ad hoc binding right in the view? The view model would have

@Published var someProperty: Int? = nil<br></br>

and the view would have

.alert(<br></br>    "Title",<br></br>    isPresented: Binding<Bool>(get: {<br></br>        viewModel.someProperty != nil<br></br>    }, set: { newValue in<br></br>        if newValue {<br></br>            // Hopefully SwiftUI will never try to set the boolean to true!<br></br>        } else {<br></br>            viewModel.someProperty = nil<br></br>        }<br></br>    }),<br></br>    presenting: viewModel.someProperty,<br></br>    actions: { _ in }<br></br>)<br></br>

This definitely isn’t ideal though.

bde,
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@RosaCtrl Glad it was helpful 🙂

bde, to random
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Get your mom something really special this Mother’s Day. Shop at Oedipal Arrangements.

shadowfacts, to random
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she typeset on my documents till i overfull \hbox

bde,
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@shadowfacts badness 1000000 😮‍💨

tom, to random
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it actually works just as well. maybe better

bde,
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@tom the only ketchup with true geriatric properties

bde,
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@tom it’s my preferred dipping sauce for fry hulud

bde, to random
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🖐️ redirect loop

👉 100 gets

bde, to random
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Wikipedia:

The [Fermat polygonal number] theorem is named after Pierre de Fermat, who stated it, in 1638, without proof, promising to write it in a separate work that never appeared.

The guy definitely had a signature move.

shadowfacts, to random
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enshittification is when software bad

bde,
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@shadowfacts It was too good of a name. People see the word and have no trouble imagining what it might mean, so they assume that’s what it does mean, and yeah, now it means essentially nothing

bde, to random
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Great Bearer Token Reef

janellecshane, to random
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ChatGPT can generate Magic Eye pictures!

At least according to ChatGPT.

https://www.aiweirdness.com/hidden-3d-pictures/

bde,
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@janellecshane First time I’ve ever been able to see one of these 😂

bde, to random
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I have to assume a lot of people don't understand how deep the AI rabbithole for Kagi goes […] If AI is the thing you are trying to get away from, moving [from Google] to Kagi is a lateral move at best.

— @lori, Why I Lost Faith in Kagi

tmcw, to random
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this will do nothing for my brand but I want to just copy edit and improve some of my old blog posts that I treasure before I write new ones

bde,
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@tmcw I get a lot of satisfaction out of copyediting my old posts, and especially adding updates to them. I want my blog to feel continually useful, not like a bunch of one-off snapshots of my thoughts. I try to maintain what Robin Sloan calls “stock”.

bde, to random
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security tip: don’t have untrusted inputs

bde, to random
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There’s some hand-wringing about the fact that the malicious xz maintainer added some binary test files as part of their backdoor.

Sure, binary files are harder to inspect than text files. I get that. But xz is a binary format! Is it really reasonable to think that you could test it properly without any binary input files?

bde,
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Indeed, in this article Russ Cox says,

The test file directory already existed from long before Jia Tan arrived, and the README explained “This directory contains bunch of files to test handling of .xz, .lzma (LZMA_Alone), and .lz (lzip) files in decoder implementations. Many of the files have been created by hand with a hex editor, thus there is no better "source code" than the files themselves.” This is a fact of life for parsing libraries like liblzma.

bde, to random
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Profunctor? Fancy! I’ve just been using the Functor Student Edition that I got for free in college

bde,
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It only supports Maybe and [] but honestly, that’s all I use anyway

256, to random
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Where Are Your Bottlenecks?
Maximum PC - January 2000
https://books.google.com/books?id=zwEAAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PT2&pg=PT25#v=twopage&q&f=false

bde,
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@256 The graphics are fun, but it bothers me that this makes no attempt to be an actual chart 😐

bde, to random
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I am an aesthete, which is why I’m searching a classical-music site for “Hammerklavier sonata” and then just buying the recording that has the prettiest album art

kai, to random
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I'm planning on spinning up another instance (maybe I'll give GoToSocial a try?) just for federating with threads.

The question is, do I want to use this as an opportunity to learn how to use Docker, or should I be my normal, boring self?

bde,
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@kai You can accomplish something similar to Docker, and get major hipster cred, by setting up a FreeBSD server and using its jail functionality to isolate GoToSocial.

I mean, it’s way more work than either of the things you said—you’d probably have to compile GTS yourself, instead of just pulling someone else’s Docker image—but if you want to start several new hobby projects at once… 😛

bde,
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@kai Just to be clear, I didn’t mean this as a serious suggestion. But I did do something similar recently and it’s been an enjoyable little project!

bde,
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@kai That’s a lot of operating systems at once 😂

I set up a FreeBSD server with one jail for a web server, and another jail for go-jamming, a service for receiving Webmentions. I had to compile go-jamming myself, but it’s written in Go and I didn’t have any trouble getting it to compile and run on FreeBSD.

I set this all up a few weeks ago and so far so good!

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