The original NYT article for those interested

Tony Hoare: “Introducing NULL was a billion-dollar mistake”

Brendan Eich: “Hold my undefined”

Also trees, natural light and less densely packed desks than in any office I’ve ever worked in. Unironically looks better than having a job.

You’re also not really supposed to dig military tunnels under schools…

I don’t know of a proof that pi is normal in any base (even non-integer bases) so I’d be interested to see on what basis you can guarantee it.

Obligatory “pi hasn’t been proved to be normal”

More like a drowned aircraft, amirite?

On the scale of human warfare, “a few months” is pretty new. Frankly, its fairly new on the timescale of the Ukraine war at this point.

It’s also not going to explode so probably less of an issue on the whole than all the UXO there…

Because the secret is where it is, not that it exists.

They literally describe it as “the size of a forearm” so that about tracks with 3-4 inches diameter.

Most claimed “hypersonic” missiles can’t actually manoeuvre at those speeds so you can spot them at distance and work out where you need to send an interceptor missile. We saw this with Patriot batteries vs Kinzhal in Ukraine.

I don’t think NZ has crocs, best you could do is probably a sheep.

Those would count as services which Trump explicitly excluded from his calculation, presumably so that he could claim the US has a larger trade deficit than it actually does. Although given he basically pulled the formula out of his ass anyway I’m not sure why he bothered to fudge the numbers as well.

While that is true, I do think there is an opportunity for the EU to get a real economic and diplomatic boost by strengthen ties with the traditional western allies in the Pacific now that America is torching its bridges there. Whether or not it can manage to get all member states to agree quickly enough to actually take that opportunity is a different matter though…

Euros or rmb as the new reserve currency? Place your bets now (literally if you like).

By that logic you don’t think foreign currencies are real?

Who gets to keep the nukes?

It’s a monoid in the category of endofunctors. Obviously.

Aww a whole new generation of devs get to make the same mistakes SOAP made. Makes me feel all fuzzy inside.