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Last Week on My Mac: Watch the ANE

Trying macOS betas, support for Catalina, is the M1 dead, and what does the ANE do all day? What should come from WWDC this year.

May 29, 2022 Macs, Technology

Paintings of painters painting 1: John Singer Sargent

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Sargent’s paintings of Claude Monet and other artists painting, mostly in front of the motif, form a unique record of painters and their techniques.

May 28, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 153

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Chinese dog with […]

May 28, 2022 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: Non-lossy compression

Explains how Huffman code works, how it’s used for compressed files, and how other techniques including LZ, LZW and LZFSE differ.

May 28, 2022 Macs, Technology

Perfect pastels by Jean-Étienne Liotard

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Applying his soft pastels to vellum, his paintings are hyper-realist in their fine detail. He was also an eccentric, living mostly in Turkish dress, and a renowned painter of portraits.

May 27, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Efficient resilient storage

Storage has to be reliable, efficient and resilient. However, efficiency and resilience oppose one another. What’s the best solution? New file formats, CRC in the file system, or what?

May 27, 2022 Macs, Technology

Paintings of Paul Signac 6: Consumption and demolition

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More fine views of Saint-Tropez, including a young woman supposedly dying of TB, an industrial Paris cityscape, and an anarchist worker.

May 26, 2022 General, Life, Painting

How macOS copes with heavy workloads on M1 cores

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How the E and P cores in an M1 Max chip cope with the heavy system workload after login, but still give the user the scope to run apps immediately.

May 26, 2022 Macs, Technology

Sheer Delight 6: Flesh and fashion

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Pastellist like Rosalba Carriera led the way in making marks to create the illusion of finely detailed fabrics. This contrasts with smooth and detailed faces.

May 25, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Does a faster external SSD help M1 Macs boot faster?

With the right enclosure, a Samsung 980 PRO NVMe SSD delivers transfer speeds of around 2.8 GB/s. Does that make booting from it any faster, compared with an SSD at half the speed?

May 25, 2022 Macs, Technology

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