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The solution I landed on is having 2 iCloud accounts in the same “family” so things can be shared, but in a controlled manner.

This reminds me of being in secondary school and procrastinating/nerd sniping our teacher for A-level Further Maths (so I was roughly 17-18) by arguing that a number system in base…

This has more context in: https://intellinews.com/us-oligarch-sanctions-list-exempts-u... > A few other oligarchs, and their companies, have been exempted because of their importan…

It has felt to me over the last few years (and I have no inside knowledge) that Google Maps saw Apple Maps fail at launch, and didn't improve the service at all. Meanwhile, Apple M…

Seems like everyone wants to make everything in Rust these days! /s

I'm remembering this analogy for next time!

Single Point Of Failure

One core place that shorting is key (which isn't touched on much) is shorting/going long on commodity futures. Very simplified example below: If I'm an airline (and my business is …

Another issue not mentioned is cross-compiling. If the result of my `sort ` function is dependent on `sizeof(void )` being 8, when I compile from my x86 hardware for a 32-bit only …

For most countries, this is true. The US is in a unique position because it is the global currency.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XOR_swap_algorithm is always a fun trick

Ruby is the most prominent one in my opinion - Matz developed Ruby entirely from Japan, was announced on Japanese mailing lists etc.

In what world do you live in where RMS is a mainstream figure? Or LAMP stack is a mainstream term?

If it weren't for locales, probably yes ;P

This was actually the topic of Herb Sutter's talk[1]. Things like meta-classes will drastically simplify end-user code.

The iPod Touch was first released in September 2007, several months after the first iPhone in June 2007.