"This is a slightly unusual request," said Dr. Wagner, with what he hoped was commendable restraint. "As far as I know, it’s the first time anyone’s been asked to supply a Tibetan monastery with an Automatic Sequence Computer.

A machinist (I think) goes over their ideas for how the apple watch is made - cold forging, anodizing, etc. A very good read.

Turns out is well understood by C. Who knew?

Updating to OS X 10.10.3 (from 10.10.2), the process seemed to hang during the screen that said "restarting" (which comes after the screens that tell you how much time is left.)

A quick google showed that the right thing to do when the timer wasn't moving was to simply wait. So I just waited. About a half hour later, the process completed just fine.

So if your update process is seemingly stuck: just wait. Even if it takes a few hours for some reason, waiting it out will almost certainly be better than hard resetting a computer during an update process.

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I was working in a job running the campus email system some years ago when I got a call from the chairman of the statistics department.

"We're having a problem sending email out of the department."

"What's the problem?" I asked.

"We can't send mail more than 500 miles," the chairman explained.