The Eclectic Light Company

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Paintings of Paul Signac 6: Consumption and demolition

Just before the end of 1895, Siegfried Bing opened his gallery l’Art Nouveau in Paris. Its first exhibition included paintings by Cross, Van

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So far I’ve looked at the CPU cores in M1 series chips using largely synthetic workloads, either generated using tight loops of assembly code in

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While some eighteenth century artists were more concerned with the careful positioning of fragments of fabric on otherwise nude bodies, others

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We’ve recently had an enormous amount of discussion about the performance of external SSDs. One issue that we’ve only touched upon is whether

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I was giving my PowerPoint presentation in a full dress rehearsal for a VIP visit, in front of The Big Boss. Predictably, when it came to display a

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On 26 February 2016, Apple pushed an update to the Incompatible Kernel Extension which came with a bug blocking the loading of the kernel extension

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This is the second of three articles providing a table of contents, summary and selected paintings for the second book of Miguel de Cervantes’ Don

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There was a time when the Displays pane had two tabs, Display and Color. Select the latter, and you could choose a colour profile for that display or

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If you’re in London this summer, and can get to Greenwich, you might like to enjoy a unique trip to eighteenth century Venice, courtesy of an

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In the first of these two articles looking at the reading of fountains in paintings, I showed examples from around 550 CE to the middle of the

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When Apple developed APFS, it decided neither to make it open source, nor to document it sufficiently to help third parties develop their own

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Fountains were originally natural springs which were controlled to deliver water in a manner that makes their supply more accessible. Instead of

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Machine translation (MT) has been one of the grand problems in computing for the last seventy years. The dream that you could instantly read an

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One of the great women portraitists inspired by the art and career of Rosalba Carriera was Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755–1842), another

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For many Mac users, the only external disk connected to your Mac stores its backups. There are times when it would be really handy if you could use