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Celebrating the bicentenary of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes 1

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First of two articles celebrating the 200th anniversary of his birth. Covers the period up to the years after the Franco-Prussian War, when he achieved popularity.

December 13, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Has Apple stopped updating EFI firmware?

Did you spot the change that didn’t take place as expected in the 15.2 update this week? It marks the end of the Intel era for Macs.

December 13, 2024 Macs, Technology

Paintings of 1924: 1 Portraits and figures

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Portraits in pastel by Baes and Laikmaa, and oils from Lovis Corinth, Christian Krohg, Emily Carr, Pierre Bonnard and Paul Sérusier.

December 12, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Tune for Performance: Do you really need a big internal SSD?

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Why pay an extra $600 for a 2 TB internal SSD, after all fast external SSDs are cheaper. Maybe you need to check whether disk performance becomes a rate-limiting factor.

December 12, 2024 Macs, Technology

What has changed in macOS Sequoia 15.2?

The macOS 15.2 update includes the second phase of AI support for Apple silicon Macs, introducing the Image […]

December 11, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

Apple has released macOS Sequoia 15.2, and security updates to 14.7.2 and 13.7.2

As eagerly anticipated, Apple has released the update to macOS 15.2 Sequoia, together with security updates to bring […]

December 11, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

The Real Country: People

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Painted by Jules Breton, Jean-François Millet, Jules Bastien-Lepage, Léon Augustin Lhermitte and others during the late 19th century.

December 11, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Tune for Performance: Activity Monitor’s CPU view

The CPU view in Activity Monitor is the starting point for tuning the performance of software. Here are its virtues, and a few vices to beware of when using it.

December 11, 2024 Macs, Technology

Changing Paintings: 49 Galatea transformed from a statue

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Pygmalion carves an ivory statue of the perfect woman, and prays to Venus for a bride in its likeness. When he showers the statue with his kisses, it turns into the woman he wanted.

December 10, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Tune for Performance: do more threads run faster?

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Discovering whether using more threads makes a task faster gives insight into where its performance is limited. How to use a VM to investigate this.

December 10, 2024 Macs, Technology

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