Minks are really effective hunters. I think I remember reading about some anti-fur activists releasing hundreds of minks from a fur factory, and they caused havoc in the area. May have been in the UK. It was a while back.
The minks and fishers around where I live (Cayuga Lake in New York) are native. The bigger issue with wildlife around here is invasive species, especially plants. So much privet, bush honeysuckle, buckthorn, and multiflora rose. And many others.
The thing about predators, is that they tend to be spread thin. It’s the way they’re built. They are too competitive to form herds. Packs/prides, yes. Herds, no.
Having hundreds in one area is insane (unless it's for special occasions, like the Baja hammerhead convention). You only see that in video games and horror movies; not in nature.
What’s mad about that? The sorry was for interrupting and engaging you and having a favour to ask. The sorry itself wasn’t a command, it was an apology for the implied command.
> The sorry was for interrupting and engaging you and having a favour to ask.
Sorry (heh), but it could easily be a sarcastic use (#4), not apologetic (#3) and not softening (#5). Not even tone can always differentiate between the apologetic "I'm sorry to bother you" and the non-apologetic "I'm sorry that your parents failed in raising you". They could be asking you for a favour, but they could just as easily be calling you inconsiderate of others because seats are for people not bags.
I’d argue tone is often useful. But you’re right - as someone who habitually employs subtle sarcasm I’ve found a large portion of the population are not really in tune to that subtlety. For me it’s a good quick differentiator to identify strangers I might actually get along with. That’s an aside though… in our case the meaning & intent might be opaque, but the result is the same. In my case, I either make someone laugh, or weird them out.
Was on a London bus early one morning, not many people on the bus. One bloke got up from his seat to get off, he had a big bag and knocked it against one of the poles on his way out. He said sorry to the pole, there was no one else around. One of the most British things I’ve seen.
I consider that “good mental hygiene”. There was a boundary violation (of self), the recognition of it (awareness), discernment (my mistake), and planting a little of the idea to change future behavior (“sorry” to myself).
I grew up in the states with a close friend whose parents are both from the UK and she's the only person I've known to say "I beg your pardon" with regularity. Is that a British/UK English thing too? I never hear/read it used otherwise but it seems more succinct and "proper" to me.
Mentioning it because I'm actually slightly surprised to see the "sorry, what did you say" usage here and in the article because it seems so pedestrian
"I beg your pardon" like "Sorry" can have multiple meanings based on the situation and inflection.
It can be used to excuse not hearing something, to get someone to repeat something preposterous or to generally reply to something shocking without actually expecting the other person to reiterate.
I'm American and I've heard Americans say "I beg your pardon", but like you I've always thought of it as a slightly proper (maybe WASP-y) idiom. People frequently say "excuse me", "sorry?", or "say again?". At least I do. Maybe I should get my ears checked.
Swimming togs? That's what they were commonly called at my primary school in Belfast. Never heard it used since!
Same goes for "gutties" - rubber-soled shoes to wear in the gym (presumably from gutta-percha).
I think "bloke" was more common in the 90s over here. It picked up an association with boorishness, especially when used as an adjective - "blokey" was almost the middle-aged equivalent of "laddish".
I just use the API directly. It's simple enough to setup and i like the control i get from just charging up and not having to worry about any random subscription taking money out of my account
If you had the former rule why would you ever whitelist bash commands? That's full access to everything you can do.
Same goes for `find`, `xargs`, `awk`, `sed`, `tar`, `rsync`, `git`, `vim` (and all text editors), `less` (any pager), `man`, `env`, `timeout`, `watch`, and so many more commands. If you whitelist things in the settings you should be much more specific about arguments to those commands.
There's no point in getting things done if there's nothing that ends up being done.
You can still get shit done without risking losing it all. Don't outsource your thinking to the machine. You can't even evaluate if what it is doing is "good enough" work or not if you don't know how to do the work. If you don't know what goes into it you just end up eating a lot of sausages.
All the same gripes from me. None enough to be a deal breaker, but every once in a while I'll do something on my GFs macbook pro and be blown away by how solid it feels.
I was pleased to see that The Verge's coverage of the event [1] was very positive on the feel of the laptop (even saying they got the hinge feel right like on the macbook which was the first thing I noticed being "not quite right" with the framework when I got it). I'm optimistic that this will be a big step in the right direction.
I had the same emotional ride. I'm glad they've kept to the "brand promise" of being able to upgrade an old machine.
I'm two years into my fw 13 and think I'll start by upgrading the chassis. I also bought 64GB of DDR5 (it was on sale, if you can imagine such a thing) - The trackpad, speakers and battery are the parts of the machine that I don't really love so will be happy to upgrade those.
I think if I can I'll keep the silver top cover - A bit of a "I had a fw before they were cool" statement
I read the X thread over the weekend, parts of it had me and my gf crying with laughter