That’s why I made the recommendation in the paragraph after that. If they start murdering Greenlanders after the drill, and only the drill, is blown up, that’s likely to get Europe to call foul.

In alphabetical order for no good reason:

BeardMeatsFood - Competitive eater turned touring food challenge attempter. Wins more than he loses.

Dr Becky - Astrophysicist. Monthly space news updates.

Lock Picking Lawyer - Masterlock’s greatest foe. And a foe to many other terrible locks and safes too. Look out for the April Fools videos.

Numberphile - Brady Haran’s popular channel about mathematics

[Periodic Videos (https://www.youtube.com/@periodicvideos) - Chemistry videos by the same producer as Numberphile. He has a bunch of channels, but I’ll only list the two here.

Primitive Technology - No voice-over or talking head(s), chill vibes, primitive building techniques. The original. Be sure to turn on subtitles / closed captions!

Simone Giertz - Down-to-Earth Inventor and Entrepreneur. Formerly the Queen of Sh*tty Robots.

Simon Roper - Linguist with an interest in English

Weird Explorer - Reviews weird and wonderful fruits from all around the globe, many you’ve probably never heard of. Currently branching out into some home gardening videos, but still doing fruit.

Most of these have extensive back-catalogues that would take some considerable time to get through. Enyoy.

Look on the bright side. If we hook up a dynamo to his coffin we might be able to power an AI data centre.

Well, that’s a very (current, if not always) US way of going about it. I was opting for a more humane alternative.

At least at first. I’d wait for the US to fire the first light weaponry, and then, if you’ll forgive the mixed metaphor, the gloves would come off.

Sounds like the way to head this off is to clearly announce that any unsanctioned drilling will be taken as an act of war. Say that the moment any US drill cuts Greenlandic soil, the shooting will start.

And I’d recommend that the first shot be heavy artillery at the drill after a very loud and distinct warning, in English, to stand clear.

Banach-Tarski was originally just one Polish kid, but a couple of months before his 9th birthday he somehow he managed to undergo mitosis, and the rest is history.

Unless by Hercules you mean Kevin Sorbo in which case, yeah, it was him alright.

Fees by those specific names may have vanished in certain industries and jurisdictions, sure.

Naive calculus tells me they should order 31 $32 bots.

Less naive strategy suggests ordering three $333 bots, pick the best of the three and give the other two the night off.

… but beware of any early repayment fees. Some companies really want all that interest whether you pay it as interest or not.

Yeah, I’ve actually written quick and dirty code that used both a division and a modulus, but then went back later to use the former to calculate the latter with a multiplication and a subtraction to get a speed improvement.

There have been other occasions where I’ve been able to replace something like average = sum / count; if average > y with if sum > count * y, when it’s not entirely obvious that y could be multiplied by anything and remain meaningful.

But when a division can’t be avoided, you still want that genius-written magical library to take some of the sting out of it.

The mention of division has triggered a memory. I think I actually saw a library like that once. It was in C, not assembly, and was almost certainly for one specific architecture (probably Intel), but other than that, there was a lot of low-level stuff that claimed to make division faster for all CPU-native data types.

It was above my skill level to just pick up and use, let alone read and understand, but I can tell you that it at least looked legit, and the author seemed earnest in their description, so something like your hypothetical is very much out there.

Your smiley needs a nose. Is it a sad face with a hat or a demon with an evil little smile?

TIL I’m a geriatric baby. (LMDE)

Growing pains. The eastern arm of the new Himalayas is just getting started.

Will our descendants be around to remember that we knew all this time ago? Will something else evolve in the absence of our lineage and be intelligent enough to figure it out like we figured out the original Himalayas?

But in the meantime, and perhaps long after, we’re in for a few rumbles and broken pots.

There are dozens of us! Dozens!

I can practically smell the loopholes in this… but since it’s in this group, I’ll begrudgingly allow that it’s a step in the right direction.

Nah. It just means that kids will have to use client side source control, or re-derive the old ways of source control.1.1.final.reallyfinalthistime.2b.beta.9

Interesting. For as long as I’ve been alive, it hasn’t been legal here (UK) for a brand to specifically name and disparage another brand in their advertising like that. (This doesn’t apply to political parties, for “reasons”, but I digress.)

That is, I’m not sure how it came to be in my head. I had thought I had come up with it independently, but I have to admit there’s a chance I’ve seen someone else use it over the intervening decades, and it has ultimately come from the advertising you’re quoting.

Nintendon’t on account of their rabid intellectual property protection and litigious nature.

Works as both what they might say to would-be infringers as well as advice to avoid them. (Which people ignore because Zelda, Mario and childhood memories.)