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self checkout computer: Unexpected item in bagging area.Remove item

Herzog: It is unexpected.As is all of life. Love. Death. The sudden awareness of our own impermanence

self checkout computer: Please wait for assistance

Herzog: Assistance will not come. Not here. Not in this fluorescent purgatory

Normally whenever I do anything with the hedgehog houses I get a 'THAT WON'T STOP A CAT!' guy turn up to be wrong at me

This time I actually designed the entrances myself, based around my understanding of cat anatomy which I only learned to stop them getting in the damn hedgehog houses. I am perfectly placed to 'well, actually...' and not a single such guy has emerged.

I am both thrilled we have moved past it but gutted for my unaired prepared argument

This lunch includes all five of the main Dutch food groups: cheese, cucumber, geometry, boredom and sorrow, with most of the vitamin content provided by the soul-destroying view of endless flatness spilling off the far-flung horizon.
Waterfall ‘recycling’ at Neist on the Isle of Skye today. The strong westerly wind blowing the falling water back onto the cliffs #IsleOfSkye #Scotland

It is very interesting, as I get older, to realize that what looked like "brilliance" from senior faculty members when I was young was just "hey this person has read *a lot* and is pretty good at remembering and connecting lots of interesting things about what they read"

You, too, can cultivate this brilliance if you read *a lot* and practice connecting dots

@david I would guess it’s specified explicitly, as the target group for Neo might be coming from Windows, and be used to installing those manually.
If you’re spending for the more expensive ones you’re either upgrading existing, or are already familiar with the MacOS capabilities. Or money is not an issue and it doesn’t really matter.
Two things:
1. If we’re sinking Iranian ships in the open ocean using submarines, this is an offensive war, and the President needs to declare war and go to Congress.
2. If you sink a ship with a torpedo, and there are no other threats around, you are obligated to search for, and rescue, survivors. The US Navy needs to stop being complicit in Hegseth’s war crime spree.

capitalists: "without a profit motive, nobody would do anything. society would collapse."

my friends & acquaintances: "I implemented a SPARC emulator in pure CSS"

OH: "There are two hard problems in computer science. Please don't be a third."