I did in fact spend roughly an hour yesterday listening to a rant about how hybrid cars work.

Absolutely worth it.

It’s unfortunately a far-right hangout.

In US English at least, it’s also a very common abbreviation for “convict” as in a convicted criminal. Although one would likely see more of those in a prison or being lead out of a courtroom, I’m sure a typical police station has plenty of repeat offenders.

Candy that smells like the house I grew up in specifically. Totally possible, but guaranteed not to exist. (Especially because there would almost certainly be no market for it, even including me)

Your shinigami is going to die of boredom.

So did you win the wrongful termination suit?

That’s true, it is a very different paradigm.
I wouldn’t go so far as to say that nobody thought it possible before Rust, but I agree it’s much more effective and performant.

Ah, yeah looks like address 0 is nothing special on C64. I was thinking more about things like Qbasic and especially Visual Basic where dereferencing address 0 expecting a string or object is easy enough to do.

I can’t claim to have learned them well, but I have used Java and various Basics over the last 30+ years.

Which parts of my comment do you disagree with?

I thought one of the goals of Java and similar was partial memory safety? If it didn’t have null it seems it would be most of the way there.

And don’t forget Basic. Yeah most variants had pointers and equivalents to null, but they are ‘advanced’ and not meant for general code. (Although that’s interpreted and you said compiled, often it could be ‘complied’ similarly to Java bytecode)

Ah, I figured that was probably the case, still a good idea for OP to be aware that it might be like I saw them and not just assume they aren’t there.

Ah, that does make sense

I finally managed to see them a couple years ago when we had that one incredible geomagnetic storm. Be ready for them to just look like faint gray streaks to the naked eye, but look just like those colorful professional photos through a smartphone camera with a night mode.

Sounds like they are incentivizing people to make external search sites from scraped data, which means the users wouldn’t be able to opt out. From your description I’d be pretty surprised if that doesn’t already exist

That’s the same picture

How do people notice that kinda thing?

West Coast “Sex and the City”

I have a Klein bottle which says… nothing, it’s a piece of glass, but it demonstrates inside and outside not being so different after all.

Yes, that one is also great

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