Life in the country has its idyllic moments: a worker lying in the sun and flowers, a meal with violin music, country dancing, and courting, even among the cows.
Month: December 2024
It’s well known that writing Time Machine backups to storage is throttled to slow them down. What’s the point of using faster SSDs that are more expensive if macOS stops them from being fast
Apple has just released updates to XProtect for all supported versions of macOS, bringing it to version 5284, […]
An association made in a traditional British Christmas carol found only exceptionally in paintings, including two ‘problem pictures’ from the 19th century.
Can you promote threads set to run on E cores so they run on P cores instead? Can you demote threads set to run on cores so they run in the background on E cores?
A dark tale of incest, transformation, and obstetrics in the arboretum, leading to the precious resin myrrh, and the birth of Adonis from a tree.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 286. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Keeps […]
Why does compressing a 15 GB file within a sparse bundle run more slowly than would be expected from its write performance?
The greatest painter of children, school and childhood in the European canon. Paintings from ‘Les Miserables’ to the classrooms of the Third Republic.
Why data compression is everyday, and how its performance problems can generalise into tasks of similar structure.
The Eclectic Light Company 