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Month: August 2021

Explainer: File systems

Turning the data blocks into files and directories, these have common functions and additional features which can give rise to tricky problems.

August 7, 2021 Macs, Technology

Impressionist painting in Britain: 3 The New English Art Club

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In the early 1880s, several young British artists returned from training Paris, and in 1886 formed a new club as an alternative to the Royal Society.

August 6, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Accelerating the M1 Mac: an introduction to SIMD

More cores are great for running more processes, but how can you make individual operations within a process faster? SIMD is one solution.

August 6, 2021 Macs, Technology

Apple has released standalone updaters for 10.14 and 10.15 Security Updates

Apple has today, 5 August, released standalone updaters for the last two Security Updates, which were first released […]

August 5, 2021 Macs, Technology

Reject: John Brett’s breathtaking view of Florence

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Painted entirely in front of the motif, and in fine detail, Brett followed Ruskin’s rules for landscape paintings, but this was rejected by the Royal Academy.

August 5, 2021 General, Life, Painting

There/their/they’re goes the Cupertino

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Driven crazy by spurious spelling corrections? Don’t get mad with your spell-checker, train it.

August 5, 2021 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Francisco Goya: 7 Gathering darkness

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Now deaf and suffering from tinnitus, Goya required a long period of recuperation from his illness. His paintings moved away from light rustic view, and became darker.

August 4, 2021 General, Life, Painting

When idiomatic code is slower, and how to Accelerate

Benchmarking 32-bit Float vector dot-product calculations using Swift, NEON assembly, and Apple’s SIMD libraries, on Intel and M1 Macs.

August 4, 2021 Macs, Technology

Still Life History: A is for apple

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In myth and legend, apples have determined the future of civilisation twice. They’re also some of the most enduring objects to be seen in still life paintings.

August 3, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Knowing what not to back up, and how

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Don’t clutter your backups with files you’d never want to restore. Here are five methods to exclude items from Time Machine backups to keep them leaner.

August 3, 2021 Macs, Technology

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