I’ve had this frustration with a number of subscriptions over the years, but there’s a great workaround—subscribe from the App Store. I get access to the NYT website, and cancellation is one button press away in my subscription settings.
The Skeptics’ Guide To The Universe has been a weekly must-listen for me over the last decade+. They cover “science news, critical thinking, bad science, conspiracies, and controversies”.
I believe his biggest issue with IQ—one that worries me greatly as well—is that it is being used to create a feeling of "otherness" towards populations that can be demarcated out using a single dimensional property: IQ. History shows us this as a strategy to subjugate using other "scientific" methods of classifying people, phrenology being a fairly recent example.
Just to shill for bee friendly lawns: I have a creeping thyme lawn that I would recommend entirely. It attracts tons of bees, butterflies, doesn’t need mowing but once a year (to clean up the spent flowers which are lovely in the summer), is drought tolerant (I water once every 2 weeks), and is evergreen to boot!
Would you mind posting a picture? My lawn is this delightful combination of grasses and local weeds that is simultaneously uncomfortable to walk on, and also tremendously unaesthetic no matter what I seem to do. Wouldn't mind power-raking it up and putting down something better one of these years, but don't want to just do something conventional if there's a truly better option.
I didn’t have to amend the soil. Thyme actually does well in poor soil conditions! As for planting you’ll have to buy plugs if you want consistency. These varieties if grown from seed won’t necessarily be true to form.
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This sounds great! What sort of climate are you in? And may I ask if you (or anyone else here who has done this) has kids? I would love to replace or supplement my lawn with clover or thyme, but I’m a little concerned that I’d be asking for my kids’ feet to get stung.
I'm in Albuquerque (zone 7). I'm not sure this is a great kid lawn because while it will hold up to foot traffic, it might get kind of torn up if kids are running around on it a lot.
No, these were all planted as plugs. Each variety of thyme must be propagated via cutting as the traits of that variety are not guaranteed if grown from seed.
It's a little surprising that the article itself calls out creeping thyme as one of the bee-friendly candidate plants for MN, then, as does the article it ultimately sources from:
Creeping thyme works fine in the Twin Cities metro, at least. It grows very well in our yard, and it's all over our neighborhood.
We also have a big bunch of yarrow planted in our hellstrip. It grows great in those tough conditions. We don't even water it, and it's always full of bees and other bugs.
What would make this ultra killer is to have a VR component. Imagine being able to walk around a design (obviously you'd have to be in a large enough space—basketball court, warehouse, empty parking lot, etc…). You would be able to experience the design at a human scale.
Imagining using this 3-page design makes me feel uncomfortable at step 2 and 3. What if I didn't know what the "test" notification was supposed to look like and wanted to make sure the system took my input correctly? What if it's such a dire emergency that the operator forgets (perhaps from experiencing intense anxiety) which one was selected? I think a stronger approach would be to flatten the design to one page. You could then visually confirm that you've chosen a test/real alert, which alert was chosen, and then see what those options actually produce. In addition, because of the seriousness of sending an alert, I think it would be better to make the "Yes, Send Now" button harder to engage — maybe a slide to send, press and hold to send, or simply give a confirmation dialog after clicking it would help.
You should probably also keep in mind that this isn't a consumer app. Who ever uses this will have seen the entire process before and tested it in a training environment. The redesign seems mostly to focus on making sure stuff isn't done by accident.
I've seen video of police shootouts where the cops - presumably trained on such a thing, plus daily exposure to tense situations - miss repeatedly from just a couple feet away, trip and fall, and otherwise screw up.
Training is not a replacement for good design. It helps, but I'd expect someone genuinely thinking they're about to be nuked to act differently than someone participating in a drill about it.
I would imagine that the operators of the current UI were trained on it as well. What the OP posted is certainly an improvement, but could be made bulletproof by showing each choice in context alongside a button that you can't accidentally trigger.
You can easily control transformations with it (out of the box), but it's easily extensible to animate/smooth anything that you can control with a number (think sound, brush strokes in a painting app)
