They’re throwing something around.

Given climatic effects from the industrial revolution onward (and perhaps with a pro-lunar bias), it would make more sense to get rid of humans to reduce the frequency of catastrophes! ;)

Use minutes if you need a D12 and are playing very slowly. ;)

Wouldn’t that be hours and really really slowly? Could do seconds mod 12 (or any other factor of 60, which is a lot).

Use hundredths of a second on the stopwatch. With a little math, and throwing out invalid results, you can generate a random number in any range < 100.

Though I do wonder if the hundredths are true or just for show. Maybe they're randomly chosen. :)

I suspect that will get you trapped in a Myst linking book if you’re not careful! ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myst

Could be Cook leaving, or could be even sooner:

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/03/apple-alan-dye-joining-...

Username checks out.

So the opposite of a Trojan Horse? A Greek Gateway?

More like a Honeypot.

tempus-word.de

2026 is the 60th anniversary of Rocannon’s World, the first novel of her Hainish Cycle SF books. I’m rereading all of them over the course of the year to celebrate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hainish_Cycle

She is one of my writer-heroes.

Doing your job and doing your job well are two different things, of course. The innovation is going to have to be in how to return to the latter when they’ve lost their way. Or, perhaps more accurately, been led astray by conflicting priorities.

They’ve done it recently with their hardware. Past time for the other side of the house to refocus.

I'm still waiting on the iphone to get the macbook pro treatment: a return to thickness, more ports, and of course touchID.