matt_morgan

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by matt_morgan 2y ago
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 interpretations for all the bug fixes,
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by matt_morgan 2y ago
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 the word. Basically, if I make bad gues
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by matt_morgan 2y ago
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 tactile dome at the Exploratorium in San Francisco ( https
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by matt_morgan 3y ago
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 gone.
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by matt_morgan 3y ago
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 or 4) there were hardly any. There are definitely preda
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by matt_morgan 3y ago
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 museums experimentally. There's no museum start
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by matt_morgan 3y ago
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 by longer-term, consistent processes. https://en
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by matt_morgan 4y ago
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 least it happened sooner and there are fewer depositors to be
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by matt_morgan 4y ago
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 work, and I don't think the FAA has a department of
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by matt_morgan 4y ago
That looks super cool. Thanks!
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by matt_morgan 4y ago
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 course they threw it out. I had no idea it had been republi
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by matt_morgan 4y ago
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.
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by matt_morgan 5y ago
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 working, I worked pretty hard and was productive. Since then I do
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by matt_morgan 5y ago
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 doing better is ... useless. That said, some of those ema
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by matt_morgan 5y ago
Because no serious environmentalist considers big hydro a net positive.
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by matt_morgan 5y ago
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 amazed that we didn't worry about kids seeing stuff they sh
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by matt_morgan 5y ago
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 can do that in other devices, too, I don't know). In ge
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by matt_morgan 5y ago
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?
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by matt_morgan 5y ago
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 extremely good cookbook.
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by matt_morgan 5y ago
12 years later, Mobile-first design still solves this.
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by matt_morgan 5y ago
They have medlars at the Cloisters in NYC--at least, a few years ago ... https://blog.metmuseum.org/cloistersgardens/2008/11/14/rotte...
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by matt_morgan 6y ago
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 stimulates a huge range of emotions in a very short tim
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by matt_morgan 6y ago
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 are too expensive and not interested in offering discount
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by matt_morgan 6y ago
It says "price coming soon." It's fair to predict that it's going to be really high.
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by matt_morgan 6y ago
You don't know that there was oversharing. Or in any case, consider situations in which they're not oversharing. Everything he says might still be true in those cases. So your argument kind of slides around the point, it doesn&#x2
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by matt_morgan 6y ago
You're not being unreasonable but that's not the issue. The issue is the leverage you have now. Your value to your partner ends with the sale. You are valuable to the new owner as the sole person who understands how the product wo
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by matt_morgan 6y ago
So here is what my family did for years: a keepass DB in a Dropbox folder under a shared Dropbox account. Various Keepass clients on all the devices. We don't pay for Dropbox, so this is broken now with the 3-client limit. And it was a
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by matt_morgan 6y ago
Are you thinking of a different Hussein maybe? This one very often seemed like he always did the best he could.
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by matt_morgan 6y ago
Start an Uber for oil sales. You're not selling it, you're just enabling. Others can get licenses, or not. You don't have to care!
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by matt_morgan 6y ago
Unstuck to your categories, Jonathan Biss's course on Beethoven's sonatas is fantastic. https://www.coursera.org/instructor/jonathanbiss

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