That graph is not planar...indeed, it is one of the 2 minimal non-planar graphs. The other one is the utility graph, so-named because of the interpretation as 3 utilities needing to connect to 3 houses simultaneously. (The standard names in graph theory are K_5 & K_3,3.)

Maybe use one of those random face generators?

That would be a good solution that would not require an Internet connection after initially loading the ticket. Unfortunately, I would expect them to use something that requires Internet access as an excuse for more tracking.

Colloquially, anything that infects other things is a "bug."

In at least one place the U.S., dialing a number containing the digits "911" but pausing too long between that second 1 & the next digit will cause it to dial 911 instead. Or at least, it did when I accidentally did so as a kid.

Which makes me wonder...why not just avoid issuing numbers containing "911" as a substring?

I was replying to the claims that cats have "minimal [...] empathy" & that "No cat will ever love you [...] the way a dog does," (which I guess is true, but for the wrong reason—no dog has loved me specifically the way my cat did). So it was in fact related.

My experiences with cats & dogs have been that cats are better to me than dogs, which contrasts with (but does not contradict) the GGP's experiences with cats & dogs.

If I wanted a less-relevant random anecdote I would mention our goats that cared about us, pointed at things & understood hand signals, herded the sheep into the pen when the dog refused (& then looked at me like "Do I get a reward?"), opened the "animal-proof" lock on their cage, & other various signs of intelligence (both emotional & otherwise). But they are also picky about their food ("That leaf touched the ground! Get me a new leaf."), aloof at times, etc. Sort of like giant, horned cats.

As I said in another comment, as a child, I had a cat that would come comfort me when I cried, sleep on my bed with me, etc. At least some cats have empathy. & even random cats seem to sense that I am a "cat person" & befriend me rather than other people who are around.

Meanwhile, the dogs always want to lick me & cannot seem to grasp that I have no desire to be licked at any time, ever.

As a child, I had a cat that would come comfort me when I cried, sleep on my bed with me, etc. None of the dogs we had ever did that.

That seems like it might be used by some manufacturers as an excuse to effectively prevent selling of used devices. Which is not to say that it would be a net negative—just that it can be abused.

I do tend to try to optimize my code, but at the same time, I tend not to be particularly bothered by doing repetitive tasks by hand (or at least, much less than most people), so it does not seem to be caused by that in my case. Some repetitive things are pleasurable (e.g. raking leaves), & once you automate something, it either does not account for edge cases or grows into a giant nest of special cases, unless you have a very good model when writing the initial code.

But if they are boring, why would they bother communicating?

There very much would be a reason to change programming languages. With infinite speed, you could do an exhaustive search for proofs of correctness, so you could write the requirements for the program & have the language formally verify it without any extra effort (provided a proof of correctness exists at all).

For that matter, why not just write test cases & constraints & have it find the simplest program that passes all of them? At some point, you would either have enough constraints that the simplest program is correct, or you would realize you did not actually know what you wanted.

I have an alarm clock that repeats once every 5 minutes after the set time until you silence it. Once in a dream I heard the alarm & then heard it again about 10 subjective minutes later after having done some other random things (that would in reality take more than 10 minutes, but of course, dreams can be unrealistic). When I woke up, I saw that the alarm had only gone off twice, so I definitely perceived the time span differently rather than just missing an alarm in the middle.

Of course, getting engrossed in something (especially something that gets progressively faster, like certain video games) can give a subjective speedup while awake, too.

But (as has been pointed out below) the semicolon before "and" later on is an instance of the Oxford comma, which suggests whoever wrote that sentence may have intended to use it, regardless of whether the manual says they were supposed to.

IV=4 & V=5 as Roman numerals (as is 0.999...=I)...the derivation appears to be a math pun of sorts.