Stupid Swift error message #a bajillion and one

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Input code: Push button.  Expect results (or at least bacon).  Get: Foo.swift:76:21: error: expected ‘,’ separator .day: { String($0 + 1) }, ^ , Foo.swift:76:21: error: expected expression in list of expressions .day: { String($0 + 1) }, ^ Foo.swift:76:21: error: expected ‘,’ separator .day: { String($0 + 1) }, ^ , Believe it or… Read more

macOS 10.12.2 appears to have brought with it some GPU issues

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I run Einstein@Home, using both CPU cores & my GPU.  Other than a few month period where Einstein@Home was issuing broken GPU work units, I’ve been successfully doing this for years, I think.  Longer than I can really remember, in any case. It appears, however, that 10.12.2 has introduced some serious issues impacting those GPU… Read more

Flinging poo in Swift

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Thanks to one of the genuine upsides of Swift, full Unicode support in the compiler itself, you can do: Finally you can express yourself honestly within your program: Or, if you prefer to be polite & British about it: You can go further, if you like, and have all manner of interesting things thrown about… Read more

ambiguous reference to member ‘joined()’

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"What do you want" scene from The Notebook

You can readily tell that Swift was created by a C++ fanatic, by its fucking obtuse error messages. ⤹ Me             Swift compiler ⤵︎ In today’s episode of “what the fuck do you want, compiler?”, we tackle: foo.swift:186:39: error: ambiguous reference to member ‘joined()’ log.debug(“\(thingies.joined(separator: “, “))”) ^~~~~~~~ Swift.BidirectionalCollection:27:17: note: found this… Read more

Swift’s String.write(toFile:…) can’t handle tildes

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Result?  Explode: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4 “The folder “sigh.txt” doesn’t exist.” UserInfo={NSFilePath=~/Desktop/sigh.txt, NSUserStringVariant=Folder, NSUnderlyingError=0x1018110b0 {Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=2 “No such file or directory”}} And since there’s no documentation on that write() method, and this is obviously a perfectly reasonable request that can’t sanely yield that bizarre error message, you could be forgiven for having no idea how… Read more