Benefits of temporarily having a litter box in my office for the cats: a) it stinks and b) there's a fine layer of cat litter distributed over every surface.
Oh wait, not benefits. I forget the word. I blame the Toxoplasma gondii
Watching "A.I. is B.S." from @adamconover and seeing the headline "Even After $100 Billion, Self-Driving Cars Are Going Nowhere" makes me want to ride public transit to the :guillotine: store.
@TheNeedling@newsie.social I'd appreciate if you'd at least ask before publishing photos from in front of my house
@woodpunk a female welder, welding females together to form the dreaded Devastator
Sometimes I wonder if folks who design devices with cloth-like coverings have ever had cats?
Texting photos to my wife without alt-text feels like I'm getting away with something
@simon Yeah, I just keep thinking what a mistake it is to try deploying these tools (at their current state) for anything other than creative lubrication. Like really fancy Oblique Strategies decks.
@sayrer@mastodon.social @simon Yeah, I guess maybe that's not "creative lubrication" per se, but I have had a lot of good use out of copilot for burping out common boilerplate in unfamiliar languages and it sometimes surprises me with a complete almost-working-as-is unit test for the occasional thing. I definitely don't accept any of its output without verifying and tweaking myself though
@acedtect This was a good really simple summary, IMO (😄) Kudos on tip-toeing around the historical drama without ignoring it while focusing on the function & facts!
@rasterweb@mastodon.social Just wait until plushy drives come out next year
@toroidalcore @TerryHancock Well yeah, they need the wifi to send back the analytics they sell, which lets them justify the cost of putting in a wifi module you didn't ask for 🙃
It's post-lunch nap time for the boy #cats while we hide out in my office from the sounds of power tools elsewhere in the house
(also, yes, I am left standing after a meeting during which my chair was again stolen)
The funny thing is that Cheddars - the girl cat who is hiding out with my wife in her office across the hall - is fine with being plucked up from my chair. She just demands that I plonk her back down in my lap after I sit. The boys, however, are not lap cats.
@thepoliticalcat Well, involved insofar as she's practically directing the project, but mostly she works in accounting. The power tools are all in the hands of tradesfolk
@hellsop True, though also I can afford to stand more
@charliejane I'm going to have to start using that phrase in my journal entries, as it's an unfortunate internalized aspiration I've been working to negate since my teens
@float13 @JacksonBates I adore when dog walkers put bags of poo in my freshly-emptied trash bin on trash day, which won't be emptied again for another 2 weeks, especially in mid-summer.
The only thing better is when they toss them in the recycling bin
(no wait, adore is the wrong word)
@JacksonBates Well, for me, it's that the bin is an oven and cooks the nice little bags for 2 weeks. The aroma greets me every time I take bags out to it from the house