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Explainers: Sparse things

Sparse bundles, sparse files, and sparse matrices explained in a nutshell, and how a sparse bundle could have a band which is a sparse file containing a sparse matrix.

April 10, 2021 Macs, Technology

Celebrating the bicentenary of Ford Madox Brown: 1 An uncertain start

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After training in Belgium, he painted a series of narrative works, then a finely detailed landscape of a view over London. Success eluded him.

April 9, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Time Machine to APFS: How efficient are backups?

Does Big Sur’s Time Machine preserve sparse files and clones when backing up to APFS volumes?

April 9, 2021 Macs, Technology

Painting Within Tent: Nicholas Roerich in the Himalaya

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During his five-year expedition to the Himalaya, Karakoram and Altai Mountains, they were presumed lost for a year, during which 5 of his team died.

April 8, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Big Sur has changed how macOS formats time

How Apple made changes to Foundation routines which format dates and times which can break their formatting when in 12-hour clock mode.

April 8, 2021 Macs, Technology

Don Quixote 4: Victory and goatherds

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In which Don Quixote has a resounding victory over a Basque escort, then the pair spend a pleasant evening as guests of some goatherds.

April 7, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Precize now informs you of sparse files and clones

Adds support for reporting whether a file is a sparse file, or has been cloned, in Big Sur.

April 7, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Big Sur’s Dock & Menu Bar pane remains a mess

A good improvement appears to have been abandoned unfinished and suffering from bugs. Will Apple fix these and finish it off in 11.3?

April 7, 2021 Macs, Technology

In Memoriam Vardges Sureniants, father of Armenian narrative art

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With his distinctive almost Divisionist style, he painted scenes from Armenian and other legends, but is almost forgotten in much of the world.

April 6, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Bugs and problems in the log: updates for 6 apps

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Consolation, Ulbow, Mints, T2M2, Cirrus and Taccy all updated to cope with increasing complexity and unreliability of the unified log.

April 6, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

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