Delaying a game like this relatively last-minute and giving it an extra year of development is waaaay more expensive than the bonuses would have been.

Is it still more expensive if they just shelve it and pretend to give it extra development? I haven’t seen any details on why it wasn’t ready for release or what they are changing or adding? A quarter billion dollars in savings seems like pretty good motivation for a company to park a project for 6 to 12 months.

Not as long as people keep voting for republicans and moderate democrats.

Indeed. You get one shot with a musket. You wouldn’t have time to reload before the enemy would be on top of you and you had better have that sword out.

But the AI people that the tech bros can now create outnumber real people by ♾️:1. The opinions of real people have ceased to matter even the tiny amount that they once did. So open wide and try not to gag.

Damn. That is terrifying. Somebody should be slapping these on all of them.

I wouldn’t want to be near one of these cars.

The sad thing is that you might be marginally safer inside the thing. Maybe… a little anyway. At least inside it, you don’t have to worry about it running you or your kid over. These things should not be on the road in any capacity.

It’s also an article about another article from Variety that actually has a better headline. These things are a pet peeve for me. Hey, here’s a story from an actual news service and I’ll even include a link to it, but I’m going to post my link all over so people will see the ads on my page instead of theirs. Variety does some good reporting, I’ve rather they get the clicks.

TIL. The ones I’ve seen were all black.

I would expect black-out curtains to make the room hotter. Black absorbs the full spectrum of sunlight shining in and and the material heats up. I would think white curtains would reflect the visible light back out through the window and keep the room cooler.

You’re not wrong and many people cannot afford to chose anything but the cheapest option.

Are putting money in the pockets of billionaires? If yes, then no, you’re not shopping local.

Really bad headline. The actual article is about a study showing that browser fingerprinting is being used in real time in pricing target ads to your browser.

To investigate whether websites are using fingerprinting data to track people, the researchers had to go beyond simply scanning websites for the presence of fingerprinting code. They developed a measurement framework called FPTrace, which assesses fingerprinting-based user tracking by analyzing how ad systems respond to changes in browser fingerprints. This approach is based on the insight that if browser fingerprinting influences tracking, altering fingerprints should affect advertiser bidding — where ad space is sold in real time based on the profile of the person viewing the website — and HTTP records — records of communication between a server and a browser.

“This kind of analysis lets us go beyond the surface,” said co-author Jimmy Dani, Saxena’s doctoral student. “We were able to detect not just the presence of fingerprinting, but whether it was being used to identify and target users — which is much harder to prove.”

The researchers found that tracking occurred even when users cleared or deleted cookies. The results showed notable differences in bid values and a decrease in HTTP records and syncing events when fingerprints were changed, suggesting an impact on targeting and tracking.

Additionally, some of these sites linked fingerprinting behavior to backend bidding processes — meaning fingerprint-based profiles were being used in real time, likely to tailor responses to users or pass along identifiers to third parties.

Aaaah! Act now! Hurry! Change ALL your passwords! Your password was stolen by malware on your device so change it now… on your device… that still has malware… Wait a minute. Shouldn’t this article at least suggest removing the malware first?

I bet the business address is that same as the one for his Trump watches, gold sneakers, and some “male enhancement honey” that you’d have to be very hard up well, desperate to try.

I would suggest going to either carbon steel or cast iron pans.

Particularly since the article that poster was referring to (I think this was the one) points out that the coatings were actually proprietary formulations and the manufacturers would not reveal what chemicals went into the manufacturing. Thus, no one has any clue what is really coming off in your food nor how toxic it might be.

The goal of alchemy was to change one element to another. Specifically, most of them wanted to turn lead into gold for obvious reasons. Chemistry evolved out of those attempts but never succeeded so I would say, no, chemistry is not alchemy.

On the other hand, we have now successfully turned lead into gold, so alchemy has been achieved via high-energy physics and quantum mechanics. But the cost to do so is so high, and the quantities involved are so low, it will never be a profitable venture. Plus the gold atoms only lasted a fraction of a second before they shattered into other particles.

For anyone who actually wants to be able to read what she posted. Here’s an article from USAToday about it.

It still is, and I think it’s universal for the English speaking parts of the world.

The result of addition is the sum.

The result of subtraction is the difference.

The result of multiplication is the product.

The result of division is the quotient.

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Think I’ll pass on this site.

Ah, I shouldn’t have skimmed your post. Thanks again, I’ll give it a listen.