Quinn “The Eskimo!”

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Apple’s 50 year “Death spiral” is a hell of a thing.
Google is to journalism what Vikings were to monks. Now their man will run the BBC

Opinion: Canny planning or dangerous compromise? Matt Brittin takes the hotseat at a pivotal moment

The Register

“Google is to journalism what Vikings were to monks”

You can read the rest of the article if you want; I just found the headline entertaining (-:

This is what happens when an entire country has main character syndrome.

And, yeah, this might have something to do with my most recent toot (-:

https://toot.community/@justkwin/116251301004797683

Quinn “The Eskimo!” (@[email protected])

TIL that Retired Sets just opened a store nearby. https://retiredsets.co.uk “Discover LEGO sets and minifigs you won’t see on shelves again.”

toot.community
I had cause to use Numbers on my phone today (iPhone 13 mini, of course) and I was astonished that I could actually get useful work done on such a small screen. Well done to all involved!

I didn’t know binaries could embed LLDB-specific bytecode for formatting custom data types nicely in the debugger, as shown in this swift-collections PR: https://github.com/apple/swift-collections/pull/607. The code also uses fancy new Swift features to place the bytecode in a specific linker section:

@⁠section(".lldbformatters")
@⁠used
let __BasicContainers___RigidArray______formatter: (UInt8, UInt8, …, UInt8) = …

TIL that Retired Sets just opened a store nearby.

https://retiredsets.co.uk

“Discover LEGO sets and minifigs you won’t see on shelves again.”

Retiredsets.co.uk | Buy Retired LEGO Sets, Minifigures & More

Discover a huge range of rare retired LEGO sets, rare minifigures, and accessories. Perfect for collectors and fans. Fast UK delivery, secure checkout, and top-rated service.

retiredsets.co.uk

Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3 reimagined as an episode of The Twilight Zone, in 4:3 black and white, of course (-:

https://youtu.be/YDzSjRKUXuA

Turns out the movie works better when you just delete 80% of it

YouTube

Anyone know of a good way to convert PPAT Mac patterns on a modern Mac? I thought GraphicConverter might do it but it's not opening my file.

Ediit: Got it! Works well in ResForge.