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We’re getting some errors regarding UpdateLayeredWindow even though we don’t use it in the project. I suspect it’s another missing include somewhere upstream that’s resolved in windows.h so it’ll take me time to figure out which file(s) in MWEdit need the header that defines it.

So far, here are the files in the Windows API that we’ve discovered…[Read more]

So it turns out that MSVC doesn’t like it when I try to use bool instead of BOOL for MFC stuff, which is annoying. Looks like they never updated the type to C99 or modern C++. Blech:
D:aMWEditMWEdituiload_dlg.h(69,15): error C2555: 'CEsmLoadDlg::OnInitDialog': overriding virtual function return type differs and is not covariant from…[Read more]

Turns out it’s an issue with how COSMIC does compositing: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wayland#Input_grabbing_in_games,_remote_desktop_and_virtual_machine_windows

So basically, I can either drop PopOS, drop COSMIC, or wait for them to fix things.

Workers and Resources is great! Highly recommend it if you like realistic city builders…[Read more]

Sorry, did read Workers and Resources as a module/DLC of Witcher – somehow didn’t catch on to the mismatch in the naming. 😛
Are you playing it through proton and Steam Launcher? There’s Windowed borderless which apparently reduces FPS, else ALT + ENTER according to this.
Still use Acemovi, reported some bugs via email a couple of months ago with…[Read more]

The Witcher launches in fullscreen and I can choose the resolution from the in-game menu. It’s currently set to 4k, which is the monitor’s native resolution.

Haven’t used either one myself but I do see them recommended in the OSS circles. 🙂

Yeah, I see E-61 machines mentioned a lot but the decent ones seem to start at around 2,000 USD with new La Marzocco units going for around 6,000 USD. That’s a lot just to get a cup of coffee! 😛

Yep, will make a note of it for if I get over there! 🙂

Hard to treat them here due to how wet things usually are. They just come right back a few…[Read more]

La Marzocco is mentioned a lot – they were the first with the horizontal boilers. Hefty prices these days though.

Someone suggested Accademia del Caffè Espresso looks like a nice place to discover when next in Italy.
There’s been some success reported with the treatment of fire ants up north, they’re on the march here so preparation is…[Read more]

Does Witcher launch in its own resolution or do they provide a choice?
Yes, sounds like some streamers have addressed it e.g. YouTube, obviously other cdn’s don’t care, and the browsers + extensions don’t provide a “streaming” dialog of user options. The browser people are aware of it, somehow a new instance of a video launched from a full screen…[Read more]

So the flickering hasn’t come back so I’ll open a bug report when I get the chance. 60 Hz is fine, would just be nice to have 144 Hz as an option is all since my monitor supports it 🙂

The Witcher now works again, still trying to figure out what’s wrong with Workers and Resources. It seems stuck in windowed mode, which could be the issue, with…[Read more]

Ah, okay, good catch. Happy enough on 60 HZ here – the monitor here doesn’t support full HDR on Windows anyway – crock or not. 😛
All the desktop browser streaming apps in this country have the same problem as here:

Streaming series doesn’t stay in full screen after each episode.
byu/Night_Owl1990 inDisneyPlus

You set it to full screen – why…[Read more]

We’ll want to update the build files to tell MSVC not to enable warnings for system header files. See: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/reference/external-external-headers-diagnostics?view=msvc-170

GCC and CLang handle this better and don’t issue them for system headers by default.

I also need to update the build files to mark some…[Read more]

Working on the clean up. Several things are being caught so I’m fixing the stuff I missed. Some of the newer 64-bit functions are different so I’ve updated the variables for those as well. I’ve temporarily used unsigned long long but we’ll want to switch to std::uint64_t once we update the formatting strings, which will need to be done all at once…[Read more]

Looks like I may have figured out my screen flickering bug that activates on session lock: only happens when the monitor is set to 144 Hz so it looks like a bug in the compositor. Will open a ticket when I get the opportunity now that I know what’s causing it. I set the refresh rate to 60 Hz yesterday and, today, the flickering never materialized.…[Read more]

Okay, finished up reviewing the files for circular dependencies. I’ll get it committed and uploaded in a day or so, resolve anything I missed, and hopefully things will start building again. We’ll find out

Got a ceramic teapot I picked up but I mostly make single cup tea. And usually without milk and sugar. Looks like the standard includes some mentions of others according to Wiki but not sure about how extensive it is. The standard costs roughly 85 USD, which seems expensive just to get instructions on how to properly make tea 😛

In a similar…[Read more]

Yes, I use metal teapot so horribly non-standard. Milk before though – definitely no sugar. And this is for Camellia Sinensis only, is there a standard for others e.g. green tea – Jasmine Rooibos etc?
Always wondered about elephants going “rogue” all explained here:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70880911-animal-vegetable-criminal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3103

Ah, tea.

Got to love nature. 🙂

And, over in Romania, there’s a park built in a grotto.

Cool! No price listed at all so likely expensive 😛

Yanko posts some cool stuff. Their articles come up every now and then over here 🙂

Late in the night in Bavaria, a nacktschnecke was found to be the cause of all the doorbells ringing and disturbing the occupants.
Wonders never cease, as with snails and the way these flatworms affect the poor sods is breathtaking. Such a parasite of relative size hosted by our species would be hardly conceivable.
Beginning to dry out here as…[Read more]

Adorable, aren’t they? Haven’t seen too many slugs around here in recent years. I suspect our increase use of pesticides are partly to blame. Used to be a lot more common before we upped the spraying around five years ago.

These days, more and more media is simply parroted and there’s much less original reporting than there used to be. Reporters…[Read more]