The Supreme Court was fully aware of the technical term:

Botanically speaking, tomatoes are the fruit of a vine, just as are cucumbers, squashes, beans, and peas. But in the common language of the people, whether sellers or consumers of provisions, all these are vegetables which are grown in kitchen gardens, and which, whether eaten cooked or raw, are, like potatoes, carrots, parsnips, turnips, beets, cauliflower, cabbage, celery, and lettuce, usually served at dinner in, with, or after the soup, fish, or meats which constitute the principal part of the repast, and not, like fruits generally, as dessert.

The attempt to class tomatoes as fruit is not unlike a recent attempt to class beans as seeds, of which Mr. Justice Bradley, speaking for this Court, said:

“We do not see why they should be classified as seeds any more than walnuts should be so classified. Both are seeds, in the language of botany or natural history, but not in commerce nor in common parlance. On the other hand, in speaking generally of provisions, beans may well be included under the term ‘vegetables.’ As an article of food on our tables, whether baked or boiled, or forming the basis of soup, they are used as a vegetable, as well when ripe as when green. This is the principal use to which they are put. Beyond the common knowledge which we have on this subject, very little evidence is necessary or can be produced.”

Nix v. Hedden, 149 U.S. 304 (1893)

So this is how the Supreme Court could do this: they were fully aware but reasonably decided tariff laws should be based on ordinary meaning.

My guess was correct, based only on the translation of piktžolė lol.

That’s not a type. A NaN is a floating point number (of type float). I used numpy because that’s the easiest way to get a NaN.

This is part of the floating point standard.

This was never about None, which is a completely different thing.

NaN is a special floating point value. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754

It’s weird but it makes sense why it was chosen to be this way.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words.

It’s not true in a normal programming language. If it is true in yours, you should stop using it immediately.

With a cup of Polonium tea.

The problem being that he is currently heading a superpower which is threatening economic and military force to achieve its goals, which apparently go against those partners.

We have been fucking it for centuries. And by the looks of things, that’s not stopping any time soon. I’d rather we have something we can do besides hoping that certain people decide now’s the time to seriously address climate change.

I like how this directly goes against the argument of Fahrenheit being more “graded” with integers lol

Some countries already use it officially too :)

About the only useful thing I see is that 100 Fahrenheit is about body temperature. Yeah, that’s about the only nice thing I can say about Fahrenheit. All temperature scales are arbitrary, but since our environment is full of water, one tied to the phase changes of water around the atmospheric pressure the vast majority of people experience just makes more sense.

I tend to align my personal view largely with the German decision in Solange I/II; as long as the EU provides the same protection of fundamental rights as the national constitution (Grundgesetz in germany’s case), it supercedes review under national constitutional courts.

My point here was that they’re pushing a bill that clearly goes against fundamental rights recognized by national constitutions and EU law.

edit: I presume you have in mind the recent-ish controversy with Poland. I’ll agree with you that that one is counterproductive.

I mean, ideally, you shouldn’t be able to submit a bill that not only goes against all (I’d hope) national constitutions, but also violates fundamental rights as established by the European Court of Justice.

But oh well, let’s hope that we can stop this before it becomes law, and if it does, that its implementation gets delayed enough for a hopefully sane judiciary to strike this down.

No worries, and glad you learnt something!

I don’t know whether this is a joke or not (Poe’s law and all), so I will assume this is a genuine question:

Because they were about to say Czechoslovakia, I’d assume. The country that hasn’t existed anymore for a long time.

edit: grammar fix

Because Joule is the SI unit of energy, meanwhile the Watt is the SI unit of power, equivalent to one Joule per second.

“Converting” joules to watts would be like converting m/s to US dollars.

I don’t see how your example is ‘funny’. That’s what you expect to get. -5² is -25. (-5)² = 25.

(This doesn’t consider the separator) Cyan - DD/MM/YY Magenta - MM/DD/YY Yellow - YY/MM/DD The other ones are mixes of those two colors, so e.g. the US is MM/DD/YY and YY/MM/DD (apparently).

Also just noticed I didn’t attribute this picture, I’ll edit my comment.

Glad I can count my own country, Lithuania, among the enlightened.

EDIT: Source of the picture: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Date_format_by_country_NEW.svg