This lecture is the second in the 2017 Maps of Meaning series. Peterson reviews ideas from the first lecture. He stresses that humans see the world through stories. These stories help solve the problem of how to act across time in social groups.
Swift 5 turns on runtime checks for exclusive access to memory by default in release builds.
Monthly update 345 • January 2019 • 2019-01-01 - 2019-01-31
If you see nand.aspcarry or nand_task_scheduler running on your Mac, here is what these storage maintenance processes do.
Jordan Peterson opens this lecture with personal stories from the 1980s. He describes his fear of nuclear war during the Cold War. He recounts a visit to a decommissioned missile silo.
The Bridge is a Swedish-Danish crime drama series. It aired on SVT1 and DR1 from 21 September 2011 to 18 December 2018. Hans Rosenfeldt created it. A body is found on the Øresund Bridge, exactly on the border between Sweden and Denmark, forcing detectives from both countries to work together.
If you see accessoryd running on your Mac, here is what this accessory management process does.
If you see diagnosticextensions.osx.spotlight.helper or diagnosticextensions.osx.timemachine.helper on your Mac, here is what they do.
The article explores dictionary-related APIs in Swift across Unix, macOS, and iOS, highlighting their role in features like spell check and semantic analysis.
Monthly update 344 • December 2018 • 2018-12-01 - 2018-12-31
Despite everyday use, floating point numbers are often understood in a hand-wavy manner and their behavior raises many eyebrows.
December 2018 closed the year with a flood of breach disclosures, fresh Facebook data scandals and a sweeping new Australian law against encryption.
Reflection on the year 2018, checking progress of the goals, and some numbers.
The Little Drummer Girl is a British-American limited series. It aired on BBC One and AMC from 28 October 2018. Park Chan-wook directed it. The show adapts John le Carré's 1983 novel. Florence Pugh plays Charlie, a young English actress recruited by Israeli intelligence to infiltrate a Palestinian bombing network in the late 1970s.
Christmas calls me to remember the basics with fresh eyes. The birth of Jesus stands as evidence of divine love.
In 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, Yuval Noah Harari steps back from the deep past and the far future to ask what we should focus on right now in a world of fake news, lost jobs and rising tribalism.
The article clarifies the distinction between bundles and packages on Apple platforms, often confused due to overlapping use cases.
The article introduces CharacterSet, a Foundation type in Swift for manipulating Unicode scalar values, distinct from Set<Character> despite its name, as it conforms to the SetAlgebra protocol rather than storing Character values directly.
November 2018 brought a wave of huge breaches, from Marriott to the postal service, alongside the first GDPR fines and a global reckoning with Facebook.
Monthly update 343 • November 2018 • 2018-11-01 - 2018-11-30
SecKey provides one time passwords to be used with the two factor authentication of Dropbox, Google, Facebook, GitHub, Proton Mail and many more.
Past Tense follows Reacher to his father’s New Hampshire hometown, uncovering family secrets, while two Canadians face a deadly trap in a rural motel.
Internationalisation (i18n) means building your app so it can support many regions and languages. Localisation (l10n) means actually translating and adapting it for a specific market.
I absolutely hate chatbots! So much that I added a rule to Quiet to hide/block chatbots from websites.
Handy defaults write commands for com.apple.systemuiserver, controlling the menu bar and system UI elements.