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[NickFitz]

Much confusion over the Swift language not doing what I expected, until I remembered that structs aren’t reference types. Changed the relevant thing to a class and now it does what I’ve spent a couple of hours trying to get it to do

The interesting thing is that I have a load of types that conform to one protocol, and I can leave the rest as structs because they don’t need to have their values changed after they’re created. It’s only things that I want to modify later in response to user interaction that need to be classes

In Ambient, the plot continues to thicken, generally with extreme violence

Wednesday tomorrow! That means I’m already halfway through the working week

Goodnight all

[xoggoth]

As expected, took ages setting up Roku stick for loony lady 2 and trying to show her how to use it. I expect I'll be getting lots of text messages asking how to do this and that over the next few weeks.

Really odd, there's a wrecked car in the woods near me and I can't see how it got there, it's right up a steep slope, and the trees between it and the road appear undamaged. Can't see any tracks nearby.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been beef & Guinness stew, mainly because I’d made more of it than I could fit in the freezer

This was accompanied by a bit of new Traffic Cops

[ladymuck]

Our council's introducing food waste bins next year. I'm curious to know how that's going to work for somewhere like this. We have a whole bunch of communal black (general waste) and orange (recycling) bins, and the bin paddock is only just big enough to contain them. I suppose fewer black bins will be needed, but I wonder how getting food waste from around fifty flats into one or more bins is going to be managed?

Then there's the additional complication of the management company collecting from our flat doors three mornings a week. I doubt the overall hygiene of the place will be enhanced by people leaving food waste in the hallways overnight!

If the idea is that each flat has its own food waste bin, then I feel sorry for whoever has to take them all out for bin day then bring them all back again. Or will we be expected to each take and retrieve our own? The pavement isn't really wide enough to have fifty or so bins stacked on it, not even quite small ones. And there'll always be someone who claims that their "better" bin has been taken by a jealous neighbour and an inferior bin left in its place, even if they're all identical

It's a difficult one for large blocks of flats. My place is just a house converted into two flats so it's not onerous to have two small bins. When I lived in RBKC, the council would only collect food waste from houses.

Glasgow used to do food waste collections from all property types but they stopped them because too many people were contaminating the bins with non-food waste. I should ask HWMBO was the collection arrangement was.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: ham toasties

These were made with the loaf that baked as I slept, which seems to have turned out very well

[NickFitz]

I did remember to put the bins out (recycling, food waste) yesterday so I'm off to a good start.

Our council's introducing food waste bins next year. I'm curious to know how that's going to work for somewhere like this. We have a whole bunch of communal black (general waste) and orange (recycling) bins, and the bin paddock is only just big enough to contain them. I suppose fewer black bins will be needed, but I wonder how getting food waste from around fifty flats into one or more bins is going to be managed?

Then there's the additional complication of the management company collecting from our flat doors three mornings a week. I doubt the overall hygiene of the place will be enhanced by people leaving food waste in the hallways overnight!

If the idea is that each flat has its own food waste bin, then I feel sorry for whoever has to take them all out for bin day then bring them all back again. Or will we be expected to each take and retrieve our own? The pavement isn't really wide enough to have fifty or so bins stacked on it, not even quite small ones. And there'll always be someone who claims that their "better" bin has been taken by a jealous neighbour and an inferior bin left in its place, even if they're all identical

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Blue sky poking through the mix of wispy and fluffy cloud. Currently 15 degrees and that's the high for the day. Cloud cover set to increase as the day progresses with the chance of showers also increasing. Barometer continues upwards to 1012 mBar.

Sunrise 07:00; Sunset 16:29 GMT

Feeling uninspired this morning. Will have to see what the day brings.

I did remember to put the bins out (recycling, food waste) yesterday so I'm off to a good start.

[ladymuck]

Happy Birthday TPD and all who sail in her!

[DoctorStrangelove]

20 years on and it's just about the only live thread left. .

Morning.

Tuesday?

Dark.

Dank.

Dreary.

Grey.

Drizzly.

Damp.

Chilly in here at 17 deg, 16 deg in the kitchen, 14.5 in the leanto.

1003 mBar, 29.6 in Hg, 752 Torr, 14.547 psi, (down from 1005.5 last night), 65% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 28th of February 2020 Brillo popped in, it was an anniversary, LM and WTFH congratulated him, AndyGarbs popped in and it was a generic bin day for some.

Another endlessly tedious grey day.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: my tinnitus and the dehumidifier rattling away.

Book. Other book.

Tea: soup etc. Entertainment: PM.

Book. Other book.

The Nazi Programme: Norway.

The mind of Mr J. G. Reeder: The man with a strange tattoo (1971). I doubt he'd stand out from the crowd these days. . This one is in Colour(tm) making the credits even more psychedelic. Oooer, the old lady was tooled up. .

Another Nazi Programme: from above. Salerno to Monte Casino.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Overcast, but the clouds are quite high and thin. No rain not he walk, but expecting it in a couple of hours.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a grey and windy day again, where 13°C feels like 7°; the expected high of 15° won’t feel much better. The barometers are up a tough at 995/1003mB. And tonight, it’s expected to rain

I realised last night that I’d forgotten, once again, to bake a white loaf. I decided to make use of the delay timer on the breadmaker and set it to bake one overnight, finishing not long after I get up. So I arose this morning to the lovely aroma of freshly baked bread filling the flat

[NickFitz]

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[NickFitz]

Lunch, BTW, was a sausage bap

This evening’s viewing was the rest of an episode of Police Interceptors that I started watching last week

I’d paused it just at the start of an ad break, and returning to it revealed a new bug in the 5 app: it started playing what I assume were the ads queued up when I’d paused it, but after a second or so they’d suddenly be replaced by a different ad, which I’m guessing came from a new list of “ads to play” that it had just downloaded

This is, I suppose, marginally better than the previous bug where it would play both sets of ads at the same time. Only one appeared on the screen, but it played the combined audio from both of them

I also found a bit of time to do some stuff with the CoreGraphics thing. Given that it’s only supposed to be a quick utility for working out some geometry stuff for the shaders, I think it’s now at the point where I should start getting it to do that rather than tweaking the functionality it already has

And later I read some more of Ambient in which our protagonist has got himself pretty decisively on the wrong side of the ubercapitalists

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

Only Connect was very difficult this evening.

[xoggoth]

Old fart lunch today followed by boring trip to doctors.

Got an email from a lady in Kazakhstan promising me plenty of photos. One good thing about lots of scam emails to your business email address or generic requests from your website contact page is it shows you have a decent presence on Google.

Got my canvas based mappy thing working well, now I can still show footpath inspection locations from photos on OS maps when Bing stops support for OS maps API.