It overwhelming passed, cause of course. Without any debate really. Compared to the quarter of the amount of money they took months to negotiate with the infrastructure it's just so absurd-- infuriating actually.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/12/defense-spending-bill-778-billion-military-china-russia.amp

  • Galli [comrade/them]
    ·
    3 years ago

    How much money will it take for the military budget to loop back around to zero?

    • AFineWayToDie [he/him]
      ·
      3 years ago

      Well, 2^32 = 4,294,967,296, which means that if the maximum were 32 bits then they'd have hit it by now.

      That implies 64 bits, meaning a maximum of... Oh. Oh god.

      18,446,744,073,709,551,616

      A factory reset would be more advised at this point.

      • Civility [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        I mean, most language's unsigned long types only go up to 32 bits.

        I'm pretty sure the military budget is stored in a MATLAB custom implementation of BigInteger they paid a military contractor a several million dollar a year subscription fee for the privilege of using.