My life just lost all its risk.

I was convinced I had seen the spelling 'disk' before, so I looked it up and found this (new to me) and interesting distinction on wiktionary.

In most varieties of English, disk is the preferred spelling for magnetic media (hence floppy disk, hard disk, disk drive), whereas disc is preferred for optical media (hence compact disc, digital versatile disc, optical disc). For all other uses, disk is preferred in American English and acceptable in Canadian English, and disc otherwise. Less commonly, disc is used for magnetic media (as in floppy disc and discette); similarly, disk is sometimes used for optical media, as in compact disk and optical disk.

But also both forms seem to be usable for geometric disc shapes.

It's a question of sentiment. Especially in science it is important to find amazement by the wonders you spot in the world. To paraphrase from Pratchett's 'The Wee Free Men':

It doesn't stop being magic, just because you figure out how it works.

Same, I just realized now that the second season is airing. I thought the first season of the reboot did a really good job in going with the times and mixing in both new and old characters.

Virtual machine. It is basically a program you can open that functions like a separate computer. The program dedicates some hardware resources and you install an OS of your choice. This has miltiple advantages: for the described purpose in the example above, the VM provides you with a fresh machinewhere you have not done any customization that would make you identifible. Other uses include e.g. using Windows software inside a Linux installation or experimenting with viruses (which would usually attack the sandboxed VM and not your actual OS).

The comma. Both separators just switch their roles:

12.000 - twelve thousand

13,12€ - thirteen euro and twelve cents

More info here, including a fancy map further down, which shows which separators are used where.

Yea, but most kinks don't involve breaking all the bones in your limbs to tie them around wheel spokes.

I though that was referencing the alleged spionage balloon(s) that were briefly in the media some years back.

I wish they didn't try to replace all dashboards with screens (and put them on the passenger' side as well it seems?).

even things as big as protons still can exhibit wave-like properties

I think there was some publication showing wave-like interference by performing the double-slit experiments with fullerenes, so molecules of about 60 carbon atoms.

It's only fair. California will be Canada's Alaska.

I think my mistake was enabling session restore on my laptop. I should have a fresh start whenever I open up Firefox and save things as bookmarks, if I actually think I will use them again. Sounds like a bit more waork though.