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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

Commemorating the 200th anniversary of the death of Girodet

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A brilliant pupil of David who won the Prix de Rome, he survived the Revolution unscathed, and even won a battle with one of his models when she refused to pay him.

December 9, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 285

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 285. Here are my solutions to them. 1: This […]

December 9, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

How Thunderbolt 5 can be faster or not

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What TB5 actually provides in its Symmetric and Asymmetric modes, why those are most important to connect Mac to dock or hub, and how that can go wrong.

December 9, 2024 Macs, Technology

Paintings of the Coast of California 2

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From Anna Hills’ unspoilt coast near Laguna Beach in 1915, to Paul Dougherty’s California Cliffs of 1935, with others by Guy Rose, Granville Redmond, and more.

December 8, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Tuning for performance

Tuning your Mac for performance can be a good investment of time. Beware of general benchmarks, though, and develop your own objective measurements. Then identify the rate-limiting step methodically, so you can address that.

December 8, 2024 Macs, Technology

Paintings of the Coast of California 1

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From Albert Bierstadt’s visit to the Farallon Islands in 1872, to George Bellows in 1917, with paintings from Mannheim, Granville Redmond and others in between.

December 7, 2024 General, Life, Painting

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