Title says it all. This is a shocking bug on multiple levels: Since you cannot render, you can neither preview it (since Final Cut Pro cannot render optical flow retiming in real time) nor export video containing it. I can’t say with certainty that this always happens – maybe there’s some hidden factor – since… Read more
It’s insane that I have to write this, because it’s such an absurdly unintuitive and complicated process that I’m going to need this for myself, some few months from now, when I have to go through this kafkaesque dance all over again. Usually this will make things work the way they were supposed to from… Read more
(FB24992831) I run a bunch of VMs for things like Claude, and for compatibility testing (sadly I feel compelled to test on macOS Tahoe despite the dumpster fire it is, so thank goodness it runs in a VM on Sequoia). Yesterday I tried doing the 15.8 update (from 15.7.9) inside one of those VMs. It… Read more
Sometimes when I tell macOS to empty the bin (“trash” if you’re United Statesian) it refuses with a baffling error message: I have no idea what causes this. One solution is to restart the affected Mac – but that’s obviously very disruptive. Another solution is to open the bin in the Finder (which works just… Read more
While perusing Jef Raskin’s documents from the early days of Apple (1979 predominately), I came across a curious one: a “calculator” language that Jef proposed. What’s particularly interesting is that it’s presented in the context of programming languages. Its specification doesn’t really describe a general purpose programming language – the title is accurate in that… Read more
Opus 4.8 and earlier use a 1M token context window (on any paid plan, at least). So it’s surprising that Anthropic quietly reduced this by 80% with Opus 5. You can get the 1M token context window back, though – you just have to enable Usage Credits. You don’t have to pay for any usage… Read more
In short: if you have any file in your app (or whatever it is you’re trying to get Apple to sign) that is over 4 GiB, you must use a disk image (DMG) to package it for notarytool, not a zip file. This is because support for files larger than 4 GiB requires using the… Read more