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My normal policy with MacOS is to install the previous major release just before the next one is issued. We’re at about that time now.

Anyone having issues with Sonoma (MacOS 14) that mean I should stick longer with Ventura (MacOS 13)?

#mac #macos #os #unix

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My normal policy with MacOS is to install the previous major release just before the next one is issued. We’re at about that time now.

Anyone having issues with Sonoma (MacOS 14) that mean I should stick longer with Ventura (MacOS 13)?

#mac #macos #os #unix

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@fromjason I don’t even understand the question, but @danielpunkass might know…

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@fromjason I don’t even understand the question, but @danielpunkass might know…

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Challenge: Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Silent Spring · Rachel Carson
3/20

#20books #20Books20Days #books #bookstodon

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Challenge: Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Silent Spring · Rachel Carson
3/20

#20books #20Books20Days #books #bookstodon

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Cover of Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson.
Penguin paperback edition (2268) from 1965.
No ISBN is listed.

The cover shows a dead bird on its back on grass. There is a pull quote `what we have to face is not an occasional dose of poison which has accidentally got into some article of food, but a persistent and continuous poisoning of the whole human environment...' — Rachel Carson

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I tried using Finder comments on the Mac recently. They were a complete and unmitigated disaster, a data loss catastrophe.

This is why:

https://eclecticlight.co/2020/11/06/fi nder-comments-worth-avoiding/

(I was using them on files in iCloud.)

I have replaced them all with xattrs, which are less visible but much more reliable. I’ll write a post about it sometime. Or just read this one:

https://eclecticlight.co/2019/10/01/ho w-to-preserve-metadata-stored-in-a-custom-extended-attribute/

My top tip is to use xattrs with magic secret single-letter tags glued to the end after a has sub (#) to ensure that they have the right syncing properties etc. (This is nuts.) I’m using:

description#S

(where the S means “sync this tag”) and so far, everything is good.

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I tried using Finder comments on the Mac recently. They were a complete and unmitigated disaster, a data loss catastrophe.

This is why:

https://eclecticlight.co/2020/11/06/fi nder-comments-worth-avoiding/

(I was using them on files in iCloud.)

I have replaced them all with xattrs, which are less visible but much more reliable. I’ll write a post about it sometime. Or just read this one:

https://eclecticlight.co/2019/10/01/ho w-to-preserve-metadata-stored-in-a-custom-extended-attribute/

My top tip is to use xattrs with magic secret single-letter tags glued to the end after a has sub (#) to ensure that they have the right syncing properties etc. (This is nuts.) I’m using:

description#S

(where the S means “sync this tag”) and so far, everything is good.

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@thibaultmol @obsidian Thanks. The post asking people submit timings should have mentioned that!

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@thibaultmol @obsidian Thanks. The post asking people submit timings should have mentioned that!

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@siracusa @b0rk Definitely annoys the hell out of me!

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@siracusa @b0rk Definitely annoys the hell out of me!

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@obsidian Is this Settings-> General? I don’t see Advanced on iPhone, iPad, Intel Mac or ARM Mac…

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@obsidian Is this Settings-> General? I don’t see Advanced on iPhone, iPad, Intel Mac or ARM Mac…

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Challenge: Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Milkman· Anna Burns
2/20

#20books #20Books20Days #books #bookstodon

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Challenge: Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Milkman· Anna Burns
2/20

#20books #20Books20Days #books #bookstodon

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Cover of Milkman, by Anna Burns.

Faber & Faber edition, 2018,

ISBN: 9780571338757.

The cover shows a pink sky  at Sunset over hills and a body of water with a person in silhouette in the foreground walking by the water.

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This is very thoughtful and interesting from @chockenberry

Slop is Good
— Craig Hockenberry
https://furbo.org/2024/08/26/slop-is-g ood/

I’m not certain I agree; but I hope he’s right.

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This is very thoughtful and interesting from @chockenberry

Slop is Good
— Craig Hockenberry
https://furbo.org/2024/08/26/slop-is-g ood/

I’m not certain I agree; but I hope he’s right.

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Challenge: Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

The Guitar Book · Pierre Bensusan
1/20

#20books #20Books20Days #books #bookstodon

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Challenge: Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

The Guitar Book · Pierre Bensusan
1/20

#20books #20Books20Days #books #bookstodon

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Cover of The Guitar Book by Pierre Bensusan.

This is a paperback published by Hal Leonard in 1985, ISBN 0-88188-620-3.

The cover is an aquarelle Fleury's Garden by Denise Cornu showing a white garden table and two chairs on a terrace in a garden with grass and flowers.

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@gedeonm @chockenberry sent now. It’s only 4.1MB, so might turn up soon, even though it’s coming all the way from Scotland! Thanks for responding.

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@gedeonm @chockenberry sent now. It’s only 4.1MB, so might turn up soon, even though it’s coming all the way from Scotland! Thanks for responding.

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@gedeonm @chockenberry <cough> Er, no, actually. 🤦‍♂️. I’d quit the app. It didn’t feel like a restart problem.

I’ve restarted now, and I think it might have improved slightly. But it’s still not right.

I’ll mail a video. I’ve never known Linea behave like this before.

iPad Pro 12.9”, 5th gen, iPad OS 17.5.1. App Store version, not TestFlight. (Unless somehow the Tapestry beta is affecting things. Surely not??)

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@gedeonm @chockenberry <cough> Er, no, actually. 🤦‍♂️. I’d quit the app. It didn’t feel like a restart problem.

I’ve restarted now, and I think it might have improved slightly. But it’s still not right.

I’ll mail a video. I’ve never known Linea behave like this before.

iPad Pro 12.9”, 5th gen, iPad OS 17.5.1. App Store version, not TestFlight. (Unless somehow the Tapestry beta is affecting things. Surely not??)

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@gedeonm @chockenberry I should add two further observations. Panning seems fine, and pinching in and out is fine *once it starts*; it is *activating* pinch-to-zoom (and even more, pinch-to-zoom-out) that seems to be super non-responsive. If you haven’t seen this, I can try to make a video of it, if it would help.

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@gedeonm @chockenberry I should add two further observations. Panning seems fine, and pinching in and out is fine *once it starts*; it is *activating* pinch-to-zoom (and even more, pinch-to-zoom-out) that seems to be super non-responsive. If you haven’t seen this, I can try to make a video of it, if it would help.

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@gedeonm @chockenberry Did something change in the pinch to zoom behaviour on Linea Sketch recently? I’ve been having significant difficulty zooming in and even more difficulty zooming out in the app, but everything seems normal in other apps. It does do it, but in a very unreliable way reminiscent of resistive touchscreens rather than the iPad. I wonder if people were moving things accidentally and control Linea at the moment, which has never previously been the case.

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@gedeonm @chockenberry Did something change in the pinch to zoom behaviour on Linea Sketch recently? I’ve been having significant difficulty zooming in and even more difficulty zooming out in the app, but everything seems normal in other apps. It does do it, but in a very unreliable way reminiscent of resistive touchscreens rather than the iPad. I wonder if people were moving things accidentally and control Linea at the moment, which has never previously been the case.

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Challenge: Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Half of a Yellow Sun · Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
0/20

#20books #20Books20Days #books #bookstodon

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Challenge: Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Half of a Yellow Sun · Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
0/20

#20books #20Books20Days #books #bookstodon

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Cover of Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Harper Perennial Paperback edition from 2007. The cover image is picture of a black woman looking to the left, and is slightly defaced by a sticker declaring the book the winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for fiction 2007. ISBN: 978-0-00-720028-3

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INTRODUCTORY POST

I am Nick Radcliffe, a mathematician/physicist by training, who has spent most of his career doing what we now call data science.

I’m a Visiting Professor in the Maths Department at University of Edinburgh, and run an Edinburgh business called Stochastic Solutions (https://stochasticsolutions.com) that consults in data science and produces data science software called Miró. For the last few years I have focused particularly on quality of data and data analysis developing a methodology and Python software called test-driven data analysis (TDDA). There’s a separate account on mastodon for that @tdda, a blog at https://tdda.info and the software is available from PyPI (pip install tdda) or from GitHub (https://github.com/tdda/tdda).

I’m passionate about sustainability, music (mostly jazz/folk/classical; play guitar), and books. I have been known to enjoy the odd dram of whisky and pint of beer. I have co-written one book about sustainability (for WWF Scotland) and one on an online tag-based database (now sadly defunct); a third book is underway.

I’ve had accounts on Mastodon for many years, and was posting as @njr@zirk.us until moving here.

I was born at 320 ppm CO₂.

#introduction

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INTRODUCTORY POST

I am Nick Radcliffe, a mathematician/physicist by training, who has spent most of his career doing what we now call data science.

I’m a Visiting Professor in the Maths Department at University of Edinburgh, and run an Edinburgh business called Stochastic Solutions (https://stochasticsolutions.com) that consults in data science and produces data science software called Miró. For the last few years I have focused particularly on quality of data and data analysis developing a methodology and Python software called test-driven data analysis (TDDA). There’s a separate account on mastodon for that @tdda, a blog at https://tdda.info and the software is available from PyPI (pip install tdda) or from GitHub (https://github.com/tdda/tdda).

I’m passionate about sustainability, music (mostly jazz/folk/classical; play guitar), and books. I have been known to enjoy the odd dram of whisky and pint of beer. I have co-written one book about sustainability (for WWF Scotland) and one on an online tag-based database (now sadly defunct); a third book is underway.

I’ve had accounts on Mastodon for many years, and was posting as @njr@zirk.us until moving here.

I was born at 320 ppm CO₂.

#introduction