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Yet one bug put you off cooking corn in the husk?

I see who didn't grow up on a farm 😉

Happy birthday! 🎂 🎉 🍷

The first time I had it was in a restaurant in Charleston, SC. It was mixed with aioli and served with a fish dish. It has an intensely savory flavor. It isn't really fermented, btw. The flavor comes from the Maillard reaction, where proteins and sugars are browned and that browning creates...

What is it? The pic is blurry.

Programming for autonomous vehicles takes in data and is given rules to follow and combines those for decision-making. It's not necessary for the programmer to anticipate and program in every possible scenario. Autonomous vehicles have cameras, motion detectors, proximity detectors, and other...

Penzeys Spices is having a really good sale right now - 2 oz bottles of Mexican Vanilla Extract, regularly $16, are now $5 each. Also, you can get a free half-cup jar of one of 3 types of taco seasoning AND a free coffee mug with a $5 purchase! And a few other free goodies.

Well, plenty of people are thinking and writing about autonomous vehicles and Asimov's laws for robots, so they're not entirely irrelevant. I brought it up to encourage discussion about how to manage the addition of AI-driven autonomous vehicles to society, since it's happening.

Computers will make whatever decisions they're programmed to make. Writer Isaac Asimov, who wrote a lot of books and stories about robots, established these rules for robots: "A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey...

Education has changed a lot in the past 40 years.

Virginia does.

Most herbs do best when they're neglected. They don't need a lot of water or fertilizer. They do need a lot of direct sun. I don't water mine at all - they just get rain. Dill is a cool-weather plant that quickly bolts in the heat, but you can succession-plant it - start new seeds every few...

Yes, it's a powder. You can get it at any garden center or big box store - maybe even some grocery stores. It's harmless to mammals.

I've used borax, too. Just sprinkle it around the perimeter and in windowsills. They eat it and it kills them.

It's not only in America. It's happening all over the world. https://autocrypt.io/global-regulations-on-autonomous-vehicles/