It’s been a while since I wrote any meaningful Swift. How I didn’t miss the Swift compiler’s bullshit error messages. That yields, on the popFirst() method: Cannot use mutating member on immutable value: ‘someArray’ is immutable. No it’s not. It’s simply not. For whatever reason, if you instead call popFirst() on ArraySlice – ostensibly indistinguishable from… Read more
I was intending to do a full comparison between the two – charts and all – until I discovered that the performance is almost identical. Which is quite disappointing, since the Vega64 in the 10-core iMac Pro is dramatically faster than the Radeon R9 M295X in the 2014 Retina iMac. On maximum settings – 2560×1440… Read more
10-core w/ Vega64. Upgrading from a 2014 Retina iMac. Relatively briefly, and in no particular order:
Most common photo editors – e.g. Lightroom – let you choose the colour gamut to use for exported photos. In Lightroom (at time of writing in January 2018) you have a fairly short list, of today’s common options – sRGB, Display P3, Adobe RGB, and ProPhoto RGB. Since we’re all obsessive nerds, that we’re given… Read more
Bare Feats – What If You Had A TITAN Xp Attached To Your iMac Pro? (Vega64) Bare Feats – Rise of Tomb Raider: iMac Pro versus Mac Pro (8-core, Vega64) Bare Feats – iMac Pros versus Mac Pros running X-Plane 11 Flight Simulator (8-core, 10-core, Vega64) Bare Feats – 8-core versus 10-core iMac Pro: The Final Conflict (8-core, 10-core)… Read more
I always consternate over what the ‘Preset’ setting should be when doing H.264 encodes with Handbrake. It’s always tempting to slide right on over to ‘placebo’ to, in theory, ensure you’ve got the best possible encoding. And in my experience that at least roughly works – file size decreases (marginally) as you use more time-consuming… Read more
