Infinite loop in macOS Night Shift in the summer near the Arctic Circle

Post by foobarchu » Tue, Jul 02, 2019, 1:02 AM UTC

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I think you're right, but that the tone I read in your words would prevent people from improving. Rather than "I'm so clever" it is more "this isn't complicated". One can argue they mean the same thing, but I'd say they mean different things if comparing to an outside scale. The solution to thinking you're so clever is to reduce your arrogance, but the solution to thinking problems are simple is to stop assuming any…

My favorite incorrect fact is that there are 24 timezones. In fact, the number of offsets from UTC fluctuates throughout the year (at least last I worked on scheduling in 2012. Back then it was either 39 or 40 depending on DST)

Post by EADGBE » Tue, Jul 02, 2019, 2:18 PM UTC

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Personally I believe that earth is flat disk carried by 4 elephants, which are standing on the back of a giant turtle

Sure, but that turtle is carried by four "elephants, which are standing on the back of a giant turtle". And that turtle ...

Post by uxp » Fri, Jul 12, 2019, 10:00 PM UTC

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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…

As the OP, I'm giving this one an upvote. I am far from an engineer, so the most I can come up with a hypothesis. I need a real engineer to do the real debugging.