>So you can use more than one iPhone as your primary phone. For example, if you have the new iPhone Duo but want to use your other 'standard' iPhone for the telephoto zoom camera capability, you could transfer your phone number from the Duo to that phone for the day if you're going to be out taking a lot of pictures. When you are done, transfer it back to the Duo, and the Duo will become your primary phone again.
Ah, so the functionality that switching the physical SIM card gave you instantly and at no cost at all.
> Interestingly, to counter the people who say that the best thing to learn from is an actual globe, a couple of children's globes of the world that I had as a child had large metal caps around the axle that obscured most of Antarctica.
"I had toy globes which, unlike actual globes, covered up significant chunks of Earth, so actual globes are bad"
Acme is just a way of calling your company "Best Brand" or "Peak Product" while being just a tiny bit less pretentious about it (and, conveniently, getting yourself listed before "American Anything" in lexicographically sorted lists).
It was only a matter of time before company names like that would be mocked.
That said, Best Buy is still a thriving business / brand (as are American Apparel and AAA).
A long time ago, I wrote an ORM to serialize/deserialize object data seamlessly into SQLite, with massive arrays of floats being stored as blobs.
In code, I could effectively mark which class members need to be stored/restored, and optionally provide a custom serialization function for them if needed.
The latter was effectively never necessary, because all the bases types and multi-dimensional arrays were handled by templates.
Really wish I open-sourced that thing then, but the corporate bureaucracy around that was tricky.
I remember sufficiently little about implementation details now that I think I can get to writing it again, without producing a copypasta of that code - and maybe I should :)
It almost always does. People put so much effort into building layers of abstractions to avoid using SQL, while just writing it directly would be much faster, easier, more readable, easier to maintain, modify, and debug. I do not get it.
>It almost always does. People put so much effort into building layers of abstractions to avoid using SQL, while just writing it directly would be much faster, easier, more readable, easier to maintain, modify, and debug. I do not get it.
When your data is literally hierarchical and all you need to do is read/write one Big Object, "just using SQL" makes no sense.
I used SQLite because it makes a lot of sense to use as an application file format[1], i.e. as an alternative to writing directly to the filesystem.
The hierarchical data was a mix of parameters and huge blobs, so text-based JSON was a no-go, size-limited BSON was a no-go, at which point I asked myself if there was a reason to not just use SQLite, and found none.
The ORM was the smallest part of it, I could have written/read from JSON too, but SQLite was just a far better choice for a mix of structured data and big blobs.
The thing it replaced was writing to a file at a predetermined offsets. Which became very fun as the file format changed between versions and backwards compatibility needed to be maintained.
That was the part I really missed from my Google days.
That, insane achievement badges, and terrible-ideas-discuss (if anyone at Google is reading this, I have one word for you: dirigibles). It was like /r/NonCredibleDefense but for Google.
It's a pixel-perfect modern clone (with some actually useful extras that won't get in the way unless you look for them), and yes, you can clone the repo and run it locally.
>precisely the countries that should know better, since they were the principal recipients the "love and friendship" from Russia
Goes to show that 1984-style conditioning really does work, decades later.
Remarkably, it can even be passed through generations, as it gets ingrained into the mentality of how parents raise children: "The nail that sticks out gets hammered down. Don't rock the boat."
Which was a survival trait in those times.
The current incarnation of Russian propaganda is different, but is even more virally poisonous:
> I'm not political. Politics is dirty. There's nothing you can change anyway. "Two sides" is an illusion. Everybody is lying and has an ulterior motive. Only naive fools believe otherwise, only naive fools ever trust. You can't know anything for sure. What you think is true is actually a lie. The only thing that's real is who you're with. That's the only truth. That's the only thing to look for in anything anyone says, that's the only thing one really says. That's what makes something true or false. The words uttered don't matter at all.
You might have seen this kind of mentality spouted by your friends on either side of the political spectrum.
Remarkably, whatever the political persuasion of people who have it is, the end result is the likes of Orban/Fico coming to power.
Sadly, this thing not only spreads, it also sticks.
If you know of an antidote, please tell me what it is.
Ah, so the functionality that switching the physical SIM card gave you instantly and at no cost at all.
Thanks, I hate it.
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