Obligatory XKCD

First comment from the link:

Every time you open LinkedIn in a Chrome-based browser, LinkedIn’s JavaScript executes a silent scan of your installed browser extensions. The scan probes for thousands of specific extensions by ID, collects the results, encrypts them, and transmits them to LinkedIn’s servers.

That is very different from “searches their computer for installed software”

What distinguishes zebras from horses is that zebras live in anonymous herds. That is, they like to clump together to ward off predators, but they don’t know or like each other. They are not a uniform group with a leader. Horses on the other hand do have authorities and followers among them. And humans can hijack the role of the leader.

CGPGrey: The Real Reason We Don’t Ride Zebras (6:23)

• Transporting the grain from the field to the mill.
• Milling
• Transporting flour (and at least 3 other ingredients) from the mill to the bakery
• Baking, packaging
• Transporting the bread from the bakery to the supermarket
• Running the supermarket.

Turns out there is a difference between raw wheat and bread. More news at 8.

When farmers get paid too little for their effort, making these wild comparisons isn’t helping. It seems we’re about a year away from the conclusion “I stubbed my toe. This must be capitalism’s fault.”

I’m not buying that heatmap data. Why are almost all the dots on the left red? That would mean that women pick a random spot and focus on that for an extended period of time before moving on to the next. This is not really how you’d investigate a scene. The right images are much more believable to me: Short glances at random points to get an overview of the scene and then re-investigating points of interest.

I am a man, though. Women: Do you really stare random points into oblivion?

Edit:

Ok, at first I thought this was actual eye tracking information. However,

[researches] asked [participants] to click on areas in the photo that caught their attention.

Then the different-colored dots make even less sense. And why are there fringes?

Even if querying data was processing-heavy and even if somehow the ‘hard drive’ got warm during this, then there still would need to be a hardware defect in order for the drive to overheat.

Great way to demonstrate the absurdity of y axes that don’t start at 0.

Nice of Steam to warn you though.

From the makers of ‘Please respond if you want to come to the party’.

- So are you coming to the party? You didn’t respond

When you try to hit on someone but your charisma is −5.

Why do smokers of all kinds have to smoke right in front of the door of every fucking building?

I refuse to enter any club that would accept me as a member.

The argument ‘why is it there then?’ is still flawed, even if you are sHoCkEd by an argument by comparison.

One way in which this could have come about is that Math.random wasn’t supported in all relevant browsers when the library author wrote the library. So they had to roll their own randomness with blackjack and hookers. Later the web standards evolved and the author was able to remove the custom code, but now had people relying on his library’s exposing a getRandom function.

Depending on the exact level of stupidity clinging to the judge on that day, some jurisdictions might consider this “hacking.”

One case from the states that was luckily dismissed: https://uk.pcmag.com/security/136282/missouri-gov-goes-after-reporter-who-found-shockingly-bad-flaw-in-state-website https://www.vice.com/en/article/this-is-the-hacking-investigation-into-journalist-who-clicked-view-source-on-government-website/

Correct answer: Lay off everyone. The new project will be coded solely by AI. 💯 hired.

Chocolate production is infested with slave labor, child labor and child slave labor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwHMDjc7qJ8

What is this magical job where two typos land you a day off, no questions asked?

The key is to not eat the quarter pounder after exercise, even if your body cries for 3.