GeekAndDad

GeekAndDad, 10 days ago

@schwa Art!

GeekAndDad, 10 days ago

@schwa Looks nice and grainy :)

GeekAndDad, 10 days ago

@pixel Would “=\n” work?

GeekAndDad, 10 days ago

@pixel Guessing the equal signs are different Unicode than you are typing into the source.

Also wondering about a nonbreaking space or something between the = and the newline.

Only other idea is escaping the “=“ (shouldn’t need to that I’m aware of but ¯_(ツ)_/¯). So:

“=\n”

But that seems very weird.

GeekAndDad, 10 days ago

@pixel What value are you using for encoding:?

GeekAndDad, 10 days ago

@pixel I was going to recommend looking at it in BBedit :)

Possible the editor is converting the character (normalizing it or something?) or the clipboard isn’t transferring it without conversion.

I’d next hexdump the file and look at the bytes.

GeekAndDad, 10 days ago

@pixel oh doh!

separatedBy: takes a CharacterSet, not a string constant.

GeekAndDad, 10 days ago

@pixel oh, no, there’s another definition in the protocol on a generic T. my bad.

GeekAndDad, 10 days ago

@pixel Using your test file gist pasted into BBEdit doc works for me.

 let s = try String(contentsOfFile: "/Users/dad/Downloads/testfile.txt",  
 encoding: .utf8)  
 let lines = s.components(separatedBy: "=\n")  
 print( "\(lines.count)")  

-> 4

GeekAndDad, 10 days ago

@pixel In Xcode Version 15.2 because macOS 13.6.6 on this M1 MBP.

I’m in a macOS SwiftUI app because that was the easiest to do a quick test in for me,
so import SwiftUI at the top.

GeekAndDad, 10 days ago

@pixel Just for giggles, try changing to NSString?

// let s = try NSString(contentsOfFile: "/Users/dad/Downloads/testfile.txt",  
// encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding)

and the rest?

GeekAndDad, 10 days ago

@krzyzanowskim @pixel he did here: https://social.pixels.pizza/@pixel/112469776364398726

GeekAndDad, 10 days ago

@bigzaphod There are a number of creative ideas to find something in the middle before ordering a PCB (though that’s getting a lot easier and cheaper according to folks I follow who do it regularly).

Some examples: https://www.crowdsupply.com/ben-wang/perf-2

But this is the most amazing one (they’re working on a new version with improvements):

https://github.com/Architeuthis-Flux/Jumperless

GeekAndDad, 11 days ago

@schwa Had to go read what this was and read that it was built in to view cameras since the early days of photography and came to smaller format cameras in the 1960s.

So now I’m curious if you have a lens for a DSLR you are using or if this is a digital effect.

Thanks for introducing me to a new-to-me photographic thing!

GeekAndDad, 11 days ago

@schwa LOL - Looks like you dropped and broke it! that’s indeed “wild” looking.

Sounds like a fun thing to play with.

Thanks.

GeekAndDad, 12 days ago (edited 12 days ago)

@schwa ACME Corp live bird trap for Birdbrain Robin that keeps attacking its reflection in my truck 🤬

Hanging mirror will hopefully get its impact, pull the fishing line that will pull out the stick and drop the weighted box down on top of it. Then I’ll drive it many miles away to a large park and release this menace.

GeekAndDad, 12 days ago

@schwa Hahaha

GeekAndDad, 12 days ago

@schwa Yah, your profile sums up the response to that.

Nope.

GeekAndDad, 12 days ago

@schwa Though, now that I think about it more, NaN seems apropos also :)

GeekAndDad, 12 days ago

@schwa 😂🤣🤣

GeekAndDad, 16 days ago

@simonbs I don’t drink coffee or espresso, but it’s still been fun to see your experiments :)