You might have heard the aphorism “Perfect is the enemy of good“. If you’re in a technical field, you’ve probably used it, or had it used against you, to shut down a conversation. It’s an effective way to do so because it insinuates that the target is thinking impractically, not focused on the problem at… Read more
This was a fun one. Mail started crashing on launch for absolutely no apparent reason – nothing had changed to its config or similar in a long time. The crash logs were all fingering an identical culprit – -[IMAPTaskManager secondaryIdleMailboxName] called on the wrong GCD queue: Process: Mail [19884] Path: /Applications/Mail.app/Contents/MacOS/Mail Identifier: com.apple.mail Version: 11.3… Read more
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
