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Month: December 2020

The best of 2020’s paintings and articles 2

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Anders Zorn, William Blake, John Constable, the amazing Pre-Raphaelite Kate Bunce, and Samuel Palmer’s painting of Sir Guyon and the Palmer.

December 31, 2020 General, Life, Painting

No Big Sur in Remote Recovery (Intel)

If you try booting into Big Sur in Remote (Internet) Recovery, you’ll get Catalina instead. But nowhere does Apple alert users to this problem.

December 31, 2020 Macs, Technology

The best of 2020’s paintings and articles 1

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Modigliani’s tragically early death, the American Benjamin West, who painted almost entirely in England, Raphael, Ingres, and John Singer Sargent. What a year!

December 30, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Getting SSD performance data which make sense

Can M1 Macs really defy the laws of physics and read files from SSD at around 12 GB/s? Or are their performance improvements more modest?

December 30, 2020 Macs, Technology

Paintings of 1920: Landscapes 3

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More modern landscapes by Paul Nash, Anna Hills, Lesser Ury, Lovis Corinth, Pierre Bonnard, Emily Carr, and Joseph Stella’s Cubist masterpiece.

December 29, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Securing sensitive data

Securing sensitive data from access by others, and safeguarding it from loss of damage, is common. Solutions range from encrypted images to specialist external disks.

December 29, 2020 Macs, Technology

Goddesses of the Week: Horai (Horae), the Seasons or Hours

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They range in number from 3 to more than a dozen, have various names and roles, but in paintings are most commonly followers of the sun chariot.

December 28, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Christmas Mac riddles (79)

I hope that you enjoyed this year’s special Christmas Mac Riddles, episode 79. Here are my solutions to […]

December 28, 2020 General, Macs, Technology

Internal SSDs can read files at extreme speed

Using 140 files of sizes 10 KB – 2 GB, the M1 read files significantly faster than a T2 Mac, but the latter wrote files slightly quicker. Highest read rate on the M1 was 10.8 GB/s, which seems almost incredible.

December 28, 2020 Macs, Technology

Christmas trees in paintings

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Long popular in Germany, Christmas trees spread across Europe and North America in the 19th century. Some seasonal paintings.

December 27, 2020 General, Life, Painting

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