At a meeting today someone had an iPad running iPadOS 13 beta. Using my Lightning to USB-A adapter from the Camera Connector kit I attached a USB drive to it. All content on the drive was visible in the Files app on the iPad.

The location mentioned, Lake Tyers, is a mix of fresh & seawater, depending on the state of the sandbar across the narrow entrance. So the “observatory” hill mentioned is almost on the (north) coast of Bass Strait. The only artificial lights are from a few white-fella’s settlements & the offshore Bass Strait oil rigs.

matigo.ca.

'As long as we can see the sky, we can see our stories': Indigenous Australians first to discover variable stars.

Around 2000 years ago.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-15/indigenous-astronomy-disvoveries-that-preceded-modern-science/11308924

My bad: I mis-read your specification.

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sumudu.me.

according to MacTracker app, the 2011 13-in MBA could be had with either a 1.7 GHz i5 or a 1.8 GHz i7.

So I doubt yours has a 1.7 GHz i7. The smaller 11-inch had a choice of 1.6 GHz i5 or 1.7 GHz i7.

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sumudu.me.

My sister was in Chile a few weeks before the devastating earthquakes in 2010.

She’s flying in from New Zealand (where earthquakes can also devastate) from southern California and Seattle about a week ago.

Those regions have had significant earthquakes in the past week.

I’m sensing a bit of a trend here……….

Colour me amazed at the performance of the new entry-level 13-in MacBook Pro. Benchmarks are slightly higher on single-core tests & almost double on multi-core tests compared to the previous entry-level model, originally released as the non-touchbar 13-in MBP in 2017.

https://9to5mac.com/2019/07/12/macbook-pro-entry-level/

This pretty much says it: http://morrick.me/archives/8525 or “The Little MacBoom That Couldn’t."

matigo.ca.

In my case, with a progressive affliction called Kinetic Tremors, just about any level of zoom on a point & shoot is now impossible. I was really upset when my Nokia Lumia 1520 suddenly died, I was using it instead of a point & shoot because of the bright 6-inch display, 20 MP sensor & optical image stabilisation.
My “twitch,” even on a good day means any point & shoot with the slightest zoom selected need a steady surface. It’s so bloody frustrating.

variablepulserate.10centuries.org.

Dinner centred around a nice spiral of Boerewors sausage. Primarily beef, with some pork and/or lamb with coriander seed, black pepper, nutmeg, cloves & allspice.
They must be 90% meat & contain no mechanically-separated meat. Also no more than 30% fat.
Formed into a spiral, it cooks far easier in a grill at the top of an oven than in a pan.