Classic protection racket. “Those are some nice files you’ve got there. It’d be a shame if anything happened to them…”

Thanks for the clarification. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen it.

In Battlestar Galactica (2004) robots called Cylons attack the humans by hacking their computer network. They are able to destroy most of humanity and all but a handful of human ships. One of the ships that survives is the Battlestar Galactica, an old ship that was about to become a museum, and is too old to be connected to the network. The man in the picture is Admiral William Adama, captain of the Galactica. He orders that computers are not to be networked together, so they can’t be hacked by the Cylons.

In real life cyber security provider CrowdStrike had a bug in one of its update files. The file went out as part of an automated update to computers at many businesses around the world, including banks and airlines. The bug made the computers crash, grounding flights, making payment systems inoperable, etc.

Etymologically, the name is usually said to derive from the oblique case of a Proto-West Germanic root: *gīsl “hostage, pledge”

Well that’s some nominative irony

Something can be breadlike without being bread, in a similar way to how whales are fishlike without being fish.

The dictionary doesn’t dictate how words should be used; it reports how people use them. Consulting a dictionary is a way to find out how “lots of people” use a word.

Cake can also be in layers with ingredients inbetween, making a sandwich.

Code switching is pretty common, but this sounds like something different since she’s using different accents with the same people.

However old you are is the oldest you’ve ever been

It’s tracking how well ads perform without tracking individual users. Tracking ads isn’t the problem. Tracking users is the problem. Before this the only way to track ad performance was by tracking users. This is a way to track ad performance without tracking users.

A single number per ad campaign of how many times an ad view resulted in a visit or purchase.

Mozilla’s announcement about it explains it pretty well: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/privacy-preserving-attribution

More important than who works there is who inherits Gabe’s ownership of the company. A new owner can completely change a company and drive out or fire anyone who doesn’t go along with the new direction. Look at what happened with twitter when Musk took over. Or his inheritors could take Valve public and introduce all the issues with that.

On the case of chips

Fluidic telescope sounds like something straight out of Star Trek

Tis customary to have a baguette and cheese while enjoying a movie at the theatre

Planets and stars should become less dense, since they have less gravity pulling inward. Either way though it would cause major effects.

That’s not how it works. I’m a door dash driver. We get a base pay, (usually $2-$3 per order but can be more if it’s peak hours) plus tip. The base pay isn’t affected by tips.

We see the total (base pay plus tip) when we are deciding whether to take an order. Orders without tips are rejected by most drivers.

That’s reasonable, but it means that whether you count by volume or mass the atmosphere is a negligible contribution to the average.

Counting by volume would get tricky with the atmosphere. Where do you draw the line of where the atmosphere ends? Even thousands of miles from Earth there is very thin atmosphere.

Hear, hear for the examined life!

I can’t believe you’d do The Betty Hutton Show dirty like this. The nerve to think that Goldie’s Playground is better than the classic that is Goldie Goes Broke!