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Reading visual art: 180 The holly and the ivy

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An association made in a traditional British Christmas carol found only exceptionally in paintings, including two ‘problem pictures’ from the 19th century.

December 17, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Tune for Performance: Core types

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?

December 17, 2024 Macs, Technology

Changing Paintings: 50 The making of myrrh and birth of Adonis

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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.

December 16, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 286

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 286. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Keeps […]

December 16, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

Are sparse bundles faster than disk images?

Why does compressing a 15 GB file within a sparse bundle run more slowly than would be expected from its write performance?

December 16, 2024 Macs, Technology

Commemorating the centenary of the death of Henri Jules Jean Geoffroy, painter of childhood

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The greatest painter of children, school and childhood in the European canon. Paintings from ‘Les Miserables’ to the classrooms of the Third Republic.

December 15, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Compression models

Why data compression is everyday, and how its performance problems can generalise into tasks of similar structure.

December 15, 2024 Macs, Technology

Celebrating the bicentenary of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes 2

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From 1872, as symbolism developed in his paintings. From ‘Death and the Maiden’, through ‘The Poor Fisherman’, to his recurring theme of the Sacred Grove.

December 14, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 286

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Keeps an […]

December 14, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

A brief history of Activity Monitor

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Originally Process Viewer and CPU Monitor, in 2003 they merged and became Activity Monitor, similar to the current version. Also borrowed for Xcode Instruments.

December 14, 2024 Macs, Technology

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