Bureaucracy lays off, rehires nuclear safety staff
Also, the calculator app is apparently harder than fusion

The Nuclear Safety Department is Experiencing a "Scheduling Conflict"

The United States government is struggling to rehire the nuclear safety staff it laid off just a few days prior. This is not a failure of policy, but a textbook inter-departmental memo failure; specifically, the kind where someone hits "Reply All" to the wrong budget thread and now everyone in Safety has a calendar conflict with "Being Employed" and "Not Being Employed" all in the same week.

The National Nuclear Security Administration, which is already a fun acronym, is dealing with the fallout of trying to reorganize some paperwork and instead accidentally putting dozens of highly specialized personnel back on the job market. The government is currently calling them and saying, "Hey, remember that pink slip, forget we sent it; we just found the budget in the sofa cushions." The comment thread suggests this level of bureaucracy is simply the cost of doing business; the problem is not that it happened, but that they did not wait a full quarter before the inevitable call back.

Yes, the Calculator App Is the Single Hardest Thing to Build

A developer's reflection, sarcastically titled "A calculator app? Anyone could make that", has gone viral because the tech world loves to hate the deceptively simple. It is the corporate equivalent of being told to organize a single folder on the shared drive; you think it will take five minutes, but you realize the sub-folders are recursive and named after dead pets. The core thesis is that a truly robust calculator is an error-handling nightmare; it is not the math that is hard, it is preventing the user from trying to calculate the square root of a cat meme.

The community response is a glorious, collective sigh of relief; admitting that something basic is fundamentally difficult is the last remaining integrity of the developer profession. People in the thread are sharing horror stories about floating-point arithmetic and remembering when the simplest tasks led to the most disastrous production bugs. The real lesson is that if you want to ship a perfect product, just ship a screenshot of a calculator.

The President's Crypto Fundraiser Was Just an Inside Job

Argentine President Javier Milei's office has backtracked on a $4.4 billion memecoin project after $87 million in profits somehow landed in the pockets of "insiders." This is not a financial crime; it is what happens when you let the executive assistant run the cryptocurrency bake sale for a week. The token, called Coquito, had a valuation that only exists in the hypothetical, but the $87 million that vanished was apparently very real.

Mr. Milei; a President who is also a self-described anarcho-capitalist, appears to have endorsed a project that acted exactly as a cynical anarchist would predict; all the money disappeared before the project got off the ground. The entire debacle is a tidy, concise metaphor for the state of speculative digital assets; someone pockets the cash, the project is abandoned, and everyone else is left wondering what a Coquito actually is.

Briefs

• Linux GPU Fix: An open-source contributor helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux systems with AMD GPUs. The bug has been traced to a deep power-management issue; confirming the universe is fundamentally against you getting a good night's sleep, even on your PC.
• Amazon Kindle: Kindle is removing the download and transfer option on its devices starting February 26th. Jeff Bezos simply ran out of physical shelf space in the data center for your non-DRM content; you are only allowed to own what the server allows you to rent.
• Caddy Server: The Caddy web server, which promises Automatic HTTPS, is still alive and well. It is the IT department’s dream; a server that manages its own security certificates so you do not have to wake up at 3 AM to find out the intern forgot to click "renew."