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I'm reminded of [Things You Should Never Do Part 1]( https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-... ) , but substitute all those rulings and laws and interpretatio…

Right. My word was before "wizard," and later I guessed "yesterday," which is after wizard. It put yesterday adjacent to the entry box, before wizard. Same is true for words before…

Sculpture can be tactile. I know it's not purely tactile, but thinking of it in that way is becoming a lot more common (eg at the Louvre). And then I went to find a URL for the tac…

If it's otherwise healthy, they won't kill it or even hurt it that badly. They loved the black walnut in our yard and I was worried about it, but by the next year they were mostly …

I live in a woodsy suburb in SE PA, and saw that first infestation. It was horrible. Disgusting. The next year was way better, and by this year (I can't remember if this is year 3 …

I've worked in and around museums for a long time and this topic comes up now and again. It occurred to me that if we think a museum should never close, then we'll never open up mu…

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Right, figuring that out was an important step in our appreciation that catastrophes happen and are impactful on a large scale, you know, not just little things that get covered up…

Requiring that they provide more information earlier encourages them to behave more safely (by exposing them to scrutiny backed by sound evidence). And if they still go down, at le…

My heart wants to agree with you but all those regulations must have something to do with how few people die in airplane crashes. It's like the textbook case of when regulations wo…

That looks super cool. Thanks!

Cool! I bought Cosmic Encounter in the 80s. I left it with my parents when I moved out, and then we would play it there when we visited so I never moved it to my own house. Then of…

KineticLensman's writing is a little unclear there, but I think that was the intent--birds are tricky, and Caracaras are just as tricky as raccoons, i.e. not safe.

This sounds like what I did in high school and college, where I did pretty well for grades etc. By grad school I was doing funner things, and then the first 15 or so years of worki…

The most successful nonprofit project in the history of the world and 90% of the comments here are about what they're doing wrong. Get a grip. Your idea about what they could be do…

Because no serious environmentalist considers big hydro a net positive.

Laws in Europe are different in the US. I used to work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where I published the entire collection online. I got calls from colleagues in Europe amaz…

Many electric pressure cookers double or triple as other similar devices, e.g. rice cookers. Also, you can fry stuff in them before you start the pressure cooking phase (maybe you …

But how did the Pi get there? Was it just some NASA employee's project? Or was there physical intrustion and the Pi was part of the plan?

Sodastream. We use it all the time. No-waste seltzer and the ginger ale mix is really good after you get used to it (one or two glasses is all it took us). East, by Meera Sodha, an…

12 years later, Mobile-first design still solves this.

They have medlars at the Cloisters in NYC--at least, a few years ago ... https://blog.metmuseum.org/cloistersgardens/2008/11/14/rotte...

If you haven't heard it, Hilary Hahn's Chaconne is also slow compared to a lot of other interpretations, and for me has a lot of the same impact (makes me cry, basically, but stimu…

CTO at a conservatory here. Although I haven't been in music long enough to really know, I think there is a lot of room here for a great open source product. Sibelius and Finale ar…