Okay, but running a huge online service on the internet means massive cyberattacks happen on days that end with a Y.

He pulled the plug on equipment and fired people who were supposed to handle the problem, didn’t he.

But then you can’t inflate the numbers by putting a 3.7 volt battery in a power bank, listing the capacity in amp-hours and implying that you get that many amp-hours at the power bank’s 5V output voltage.

A lot of writers apparently have no idea how to write interesting female characters. Some of the pushback from viewers / readers to increasing the number of female characters isn’t about the characters being female, it’s about them being bad characters. Boring, annoying, quippy, etc.

Nobody wants to admit that their movie flopped because it wasn’t very good, so they blame sexism. Or piracy, that one’s always popular.

In a weather report

With that song you need to link a version with lyrics, because the place names need to be seen to be believed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20oqyMVbss0

It’s school IT, so it was probably a teacher who ‘knows computers’ and not anyone with IT training.

Struggling with a tough foe? Remember, just keep your Health above 0 while lowering your enemy’s Health to 0. Works every time!

- World of Warcraft loading screen

Bigger, more powerful fusion gear isn’t going to also be more expensive?

Lots of generation technologies scale, and costs fall as they do. That’s not something unique to fusion power.

We can already massively increase generation to meet the needs of those industries whenever we want. They’re impractical due to the cost of meeting their energy requirements, not because it’s impossible.

Unless fusion power plants are going to be free to build or last forever, they have the same practical limit as every other type of generation - they have to be paid for. It isn’t clear that fusion would be a huge step forward in cost per megawatt-hour.

Yeah, but there’s no prizes for producing way more power than we use. We’re not running out of space to put solar panels or batteries.

It seems like it’s probably too late.

Even if we crack fusion power today, I can’t see it being deployed cheaply enough and quickly enough to compete with solar/wind+batteries. By the time we could get production fusion plants up and ready to feed power into the grid, it’d be 2050 and nobody would be interested in buying electricity from it.

• Try to log in to my ISP’s website. “Username not found.”
• Try the password reset link and put in the username just to see what happens. “Password reset email sent.”
• Email turns up. Click the link. Type a password. “Password reset successfully.”
• Try to log in to my ISP’s website. “Username not found.”

Edit: to be clear, I didn’t put in my email address, I only put in the username. The system looked up the username and found the email address by itself.

IIRC the pop up even did scummy bullshit like continuing with the update if you closed the popup by clicking the cross in the top right of the window, you had to actually click the cancel button.

Yeah… One of my great great grandmothers, nobody was ever allowed to know how old she was while she was alive. It was this weird mystery.

Turns out if you knew her age you could easily count backwards and work out that when she got married she was 13 years old and about four months pregnant.

I only get told to pull forward when there’s a queue, and they want to get the person behind me to the window.

is it always running, looking for barcodes in all the photos you take?

Has Google’s camera app added that yet? If not it’s only a matter of time.

When my phone’s barcode reader app sees a web link, it fetches the page’s title to display next to the actual link. So it is going to that web server and fetching resources by itself. Even though it isn’t actually rendering the page and running javascript, it might be exploitable.

Half of them will print the highest bandwidth regardless of the actual cable’s capabilities so that won’t help.

This image from further down the page is funnier here.

Lavrov accused the West of using truces to re-arm Ukraine and called for agreements preventing future violations.

Russia wants time to rearm, but doesn’t want the people they’re attacking doing the same thing.