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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 e (so 1, 2, 2.1, ..., 2.7, 2.71, ..., 10) would simplify a lot of the maths we were studying.

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 importance to the global commodities market, most notably Oleg Deripaska and his aluminium producer Rusal.

> When very harsh sanctions were imposed on Deripaska in 2018 that effectively banned doing any business with the company, prices for aluminium on the London Metals Exchange (LME) soared by 40% overnight potentially causing a price shock for the consumers of the metal. The implementation of those sanctions were at first delayed and eventually withdrawn completely

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 Maps and the OpenStreetMaps backing data has continued to get better and better each year.

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 dependent on the price of oil) and I think the price of oil will go up, I will hold some amount of oil futures at the current price. If the price of oil rises, my company is "hedged" against that rise. This is good for the buyer of the commodity. If the price of oil goes down, I lose on my future, but my business is fine overall.

Correspondingly, if I'm the seller of a commodity (I own an oilfield), I might short oil futures, in case the price goes down. I make less money selling my oil, but I hopefully make some back on the short

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 architecture, assumptions go awry.

Note that this isn't likely with something like sort, but definitely is* likely with precomputing values/structs etc.

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.

https://status.github.com/messages has more info.

Something that is 'setting out' to provide something, doesn't seem like it is production ready enough to run a production operating system on top of.

Clearly a malicious attack by Apple before the iPhone X announcement later </s>

As always, if you want to watch the stream, you need to use Safari.

Can the title reflect this somehow?

I find it hard to reconcile this suggestion at the bottom of the article

> Always build your architecture in a way that will avoid becoming trapped into a specific service. Amazon’s AWS Lambda sitting between any services and your app is a strongly recommended path!

- Build without depending on external services

- You can do this by depending on this external service

Other thread is up at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14296959 (although doesn't mention that MSFT have released a fix already).

> do such people apply to programming jobs frequently enough for fizzbuzz to be useful?

speaking as someone who does hiring at a large software company: yes, yes they do. In significant numbers.

from https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/32691 as well:

> defining an open, community-centric governance inspired by the Fedora project

Well for the MIFID-II regulations coming out this year, you need to support at least microsecond precision for audit purposes.

And if you're doing microseconds, why not go for the full nanoseconds?

And its fixed already in https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-ruby-extras/diaspora-ins...

> hosting a database

this will very likely be calling time related system calls, especially clock_gettime with CLOCK_MONOTONIC.

So using 128bits instructions would imply you had 'words' which were over 16 characters long on average, right?

The average (english) word is ~5 characters long, so most of the time, you'd be forced to check anyway.

It seems based on this post that all the hardware is going to end up in one datacenter. that seems like a big risk if that datacenter ends up having issues.

Perhaps look into how to have the nodes split between 2 or 3 different datacenters?