Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or a discworld, sitting on the back of four elephants who are standing on the back of a turtle.
What does the turtle stand on?
It's turtles all the way down.
Infinite loop in macOS Night Shift in the summer near the Arctic Circle
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Re: Infinite loop in macOS Night Shift in the summer near the Arctic Circle
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If I remember correctly the word you're looking for is nihilism.
Ironically, viewing yourself as the most meaningful, important, intelligent, accomplished thing in the universe sounds a lot like narcissism.
When your "universe" is the size of a solar system with a single life-supporting planet, what other conclusion could possibly be met?
If you're the only one in a talent contest, you're the best ... and the worst.
Re: Infinite loop in macOS Night Shift in the summer near the Arctic Circle
#53Has anyone ever determined how many times you have to drive around Infinite Loop before Apple Security calls the police on you?
I had a friend who once drove around a traffic circle as many times as he could. He got up to 39 times before a police officer pulled him over.
Does anybody know if there is a law on that?
Re: Infinite loop in macOS Night Shift in the summer near the Arctic Circle
#54I sometimes wonder how many bugs are lurking in systems using GPS for navigation at 180th meridian (where longitude goes from 180 to -180).
Re: Infinite loop in macOS Night Shift in the summer near the Arctic Circle
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not really. All he's shown is a behavior (high CPU) and is equating it with the latitude he's at. When he turns off Night Shift, the daemon process for the feature stops consuming as much CPU, from what I gathered. Nowhere does he provide evidence that there is an infinite loop calculating the sunrise/sunset. And I really don't want to be a stereotypical poster by simply degrading what he did, so I will give credit t…
What's the difference between unexpected and undesired behavior and a bug?
Unexpected or undesired behaviours are relative to who's expectations and desires are being considered while bugs are (or at least should be) universally recognisable as bugs.
Re: Infinite loop in macOS Night Shift in the summer near the Arctic Circle
#56Deep in the twitter replies:
> Now, is this a corner case, an edge case or a boundary case? And does the answer depend on whether you are a flat-earther or not?
That was too funny.
Re: Infinite loop in macOS Night Shift in the summer near the Arctic Circle
#57Has anyone ever determined how many times you have to drive around Infinite Loop before Apple Security calls the police on you?
Less than one (source: I did it trying to find parking because the BJs next door was full)
Re: Infinite loop in macOS Night Shift in the summer near the Arctic Circle
#58Has anyone ever determined how many times you have to drive around Infinite Loop before Apple Security calls the police on you?
I had a friend who once drove around a traffic circle as many times as he could. He got up to 39 times before a police officer pulled him over. Does anybody know if there is a law on that?
Depends on the state/country, but most have rule that you can't go around more than once. In fact, most places I've seen in the US you can't even go more than 3/4s around (although I'm not sure if that's a law or just a posted suggestion).
Re: Infinite loop in macOS Night Shift in the summer near the Arctic Circle
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s not an arbitrary planet from our perspective, which is the only one we even know to exist. We’ve needed to coordinate actions forever and the sun was the only reliable way to do that for a long time. Nothing arbitrary about where our time came from.
Sure, for now ; but I feel like it'd be aesthetically pleasing in some sense to try for something more objective—i.e. to predetermine the sort of timekeeping methods we would need upon establishing trade relations with a universe full of aliens, and then to use those methods in advance. Like a Society for Creative Anachronism meeting where the target period is forward in time rather than backward.
Given that we have no idea whether aliens even exist — and that life on Earth both literally and figuratively revolves around the Sun — that strikes me as the ultimate premature optimization.
Re: Infinite loop in macOS Night Shift in the summer near the Arctic Circle
#60Am I the only person who is impressed with this person's debugging skill?
The machine gave two big hints. The fan spinning up indicated the computer was needlessly busy. Then the Activity Monitor revealed the problem was the "core brightness" system. From there it is a small leap to make the connection to Night Shift. On mobile devices the only indications we have that something is wrong is warm devices and lower battery lives, which are far less immediate. And we don't have the detailed C…
This Android phone tells me proactively if it notices an application using lots of battery life or network bandwidth. And if I'm inquisitive it will let me see how much they used anyway when it didn't alert.
For example apparently Chrome used 3% of the battery life so far today whereas a game I was just playing already consumed 5%