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

Re:Infinite loop in macOS Night Shift in the summer near the... by rosser on Friday June 28, 2019 @05:33PM (#20308946)

Right? I am reliably put into this weird emotional state of being simultaneously entertained and chagrined at the propensity for technologists (and I very much include myself in this criticism) to make these kinds of assumptions, and the edge-case bugs that fall out of them.

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Re:Infinite loop in macOS Night Shift in the summer near the... by gubbrora on Friday June 28, 2019 @10:08PM (#20310361)

If we tried to get these thing 100% right we'd not have time for anything else. Punting is pragmatic.

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Re:Infinite loop in macOS Night Shift in the summer near the... by rosser on Saturday June 29, 2019 @01:01AM (#20310891)

You're absolutely right that "100% right" is an unreasonable standard. I submit that knowing that there are places on the planet where, at times, the sun doesn't set, however, is a reasonable thing to expect of someone who's made it far enough in life to be writing code (or testing it! How did this pass QA?) for Apple.

f.lux gets it right if I set my zip to Barrow, AK. Why can't Apple, with how many orders of magnitude more resources at their disposal — including knowledge?

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Re:Infinite loop in macOS Night Shift in the summer near the... by gubbrora on Saturday June 29, 2019 @10:11AM (#20312683)

Agreed

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Re:Infinite loop in macOS Night Shift in the summer near the... by danaliv on Friday June 28, 2019 @09:05PM (#20310120)

And it's a reminder that "edge case" is relative. It's not an edge case for people who live there!

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