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Saturday Mac riddles 96

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through whatever you’re now allowed to do. 1: Fourth in […]

April 24, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: numbers in macOS

All you need to understand about numbers on your Mac, both integers and floating point. Common errors and problems, from endianness to NaNs.

April 24, 2021 Macs, Technology

Staffs in paintings: 1 Myth, Age, Travellers

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From mythology, Mercury’s caduceus and the Aesculapian Staff, walking sticks as a device indicating age, and those carried by travellers.

April 23, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Cirrus 1.12 and Taccy 1.14 fix time issues and improve log performance

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Updates recommended for all users. They finally address problems with using 12-hour and other clocks. Log handling code has been refactored to improve performance.

April 23, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Consolation 3.13 fixes time issues and improves command output

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This update is recommended for all users. It finally addresses problems with using 12-hour and other clocks. It also reveals a more useful version of the log command used to get a log extract.

April 23, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

In Memoriam John Crome: Revolt in the provinces 2

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A small selection of his revolutionary landscape paintings from the final seven years of his life. Superb trees, magnificent skies, and an oil sketch worthy of an Impressionist.

April 22, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Can you trust floating-point arithmetic on Apple Silicon?

M1 Macs may be as fast as greased lightning, but how good is their numerical accuracy? Can it match that of Intel processors?

April 22, 2021 Macs, Technology

Painting Within Tent: Jan Brandes in the East Indies

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A Lutheran minister who was in Indonesia from 1778-85, then visited Sri Lanka, and South Africa. His sketchbooks are full of wonderful watercolours.

April 21, 2021 General, Life, Painting

How macOS manages iOS apps: RunningBoard comes of age

iOS and iPadOS apps run on M1 Macs in an environment managed by RunningBoard, FrontBoard, FuseBoard, and several assistants.

April 21, 2021 Macs, Technology

Don Quixote 6: Nightmare at the haunted castle

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After being badly beaten by a group of muleteers, the pair stay at an inn to recover. But the night proves a nightmare, and escaping the next day isn’t easy either.

April 20, 2021 General, Life, Painting

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