Would it have killed them to say who, though?

Oh yeah, clicks.

Fuck that headline. It was the president of Portugal.

It most certainly is

Basically a repeat of 2014 after Russia took Ukraine Crimea and 8 years later they wanted more and there was nothing to stop them but the Ukrainian pushback (which, honestly, kudos for holding out this long).

So what’s going to happen in 2030?

So every public infrastructure project in every country is cause for a reminder of the dumbassery going on here? Both projects are coming out of taxpayer money, and that’s where the similarity ends and the non sequitur-ness begins. As you say, one is actually being used for something useful.

If you want to talk about wasted money, how about that bridge in India with a 90° turn? At least that one is, you know, a bridge.

Talk about a non sequitur

SGI (if you really can’t figure it out, stable genius intelligence)

I dunno, were those Boeing crashes caused by a war-induced parts shortage?

I’m excited for a banana grown right in Wisconsin 😋

It is also used to transmit data including video. I don’t think an additional byte is noticeable on that kind of scale

If it’s a numeric ID (0-255) assigned to each person in the group, you’d either need to decrement later people or assign based on some kind of lowest available method, in which case you’d get kinda funny UX when new-member-Jerry can be #3 on the list because he’s taking over for old-member-Gerry, or he can be #255 because that’s the last spot.

If we’re talking about pointers, I assume you mean a collection with up to 256 of them. In which case, there are plenty of collection data structures out there that wouldn’t really have a hard limit (and if you go with a basic array, wouldn’t that have a size limit of far more than 256 natively on pretty much any language?)

If each user is assigned a number as to where they’re placed in the group, I guess. But what happens when people are added and removed? If #145 leaves a full group, does #146 and beyond get decremented to make room for the new #256? (or #255 if zero-indexed). It just doesn’t seem like something you’d actually see in code not designed by a first semester CS student.

Also, more importantly, memory is cheap AF now 🤷‍♂️

So, I get that 256 is a base 2 number. But we’re not running 8-bit servers or whatever here (and yes, I understand that’s not what 8-bit generally refers to). Is there some kind of technical limitation I’m not thinking of where 257 would be any more difficult to implement, or really is it just that 256 has a special place in someone’s heart because it’s a base 2 number?

Ahhh yes. Of course the US paid millions of dollars to detain hundreds of people, and Kristi Noem went down there to make a point that if you crime while brown, you will end up in this prison because it treats its inmates… Exactly the same as an American prison. Yeah, that makes sense.

Ohhhh that makes sense. I mean, I hate it but it makes sense.

I’m not Canadian, but I’ve previously known that in the US you only have to live in the same state as the district you’re representing. An argument in favor of that concept (that I admittedly just made up) is that congressional boundaries get rewritten every decade. In theory, this could be used to push a rep out of Congress if someone really wanted to, if they were required to live in district. State boundaries are much more stable so this is pretty good immunity to that.