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Mac Liquid Detection
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Filipe Espósito (via Hacker News): macOS Sonoma 14.1 includes a new system daemon named “liquiddetectiond,” which, as the name suggests, can identify when the computer has been exposed to liquids. More specifically, this daemon runs in the background to collect liquid detection analysis from each USB-C port on the Mac.[…]While Apple may eventually implement an […]
SwiftData Fetching Pending Changes
Keith Harrison: If you don’t want the pending changes included in the fetch results you should be able to override the default by setting includePendingChanges to false in the fetch descriptor[…] Unfortunately, I don’t seem to be able to get that to work using iOS 17.2 (FB13509125). The pending change is always returned in the […]
The Boeing 737 MAX and Alaska Airlines Flight 1282
Luke Bodell (via Hacker News): In August, the FAA issued an Airworthiness Directive (AD) warning MAX operators about using the engine anti-icing system in dry air. The AD came about following in-flight testing, which found that deploying the anti-icing system for longer than five minutes under specific conditions led to overheating and damage to the […]
Is Objective-C BOOL a Boolean Type?
Juan Cruz Viotti: While BOOL might look trivial, its definition is rather complex. It depends on which Apple platform and architecture you are targeting, which can result in unexpected behavior. […] Recently, I stumbled into a case where for the same code, macOS Intel and macOS Apple Silicon invoked different overloads. […] As we can […]
Artificial Skylight
Swiss Miss,
I want to put these artificial skylights all over my house.
Old Made Good
I. Love. These. Prints. And just ordered some.
Vuelta Lamp
Dear Vuelta Lamp, please come into my life.
Sebastian Curi
I love Sebastian Curi‘s bold style. Deciding what to put on my walls. (Via Colin)