pits

It used to be a river bed, which makes for great gravel pits and terrible gardens.

First, there's this thought of having a software-controlled laser beam digging pits in the cornea.

I'm from New Orleans so I'm spoiled, but the live music scene in SF is the pits.

As far as I can see, there are two tar pits that Digg and now Reddit are stuck in: 1.

And swimming pools might be nostalgic, but they're really death pits.

And pits they are, it's not like the laser pulses create a smooth surface, we are long ways away from that.

The Trinitite is not so rare, but the lucite was cast in the same mold that made the plutonium pits for the Trinity and Fat Man bombs, and included the small hold [sic] for the neutron initiator.

> And swimming pools might be nostalgic, but they're really death pits.

After a while we moved to making forts in ~3 foot deep pits, and lining them with old carpet and covering them with discarded plywood scavenged from construction sites.

This wastewater is stored on the fracking site in open air pits, injected into deep underground wells or disposed of off-site at a wastewater treatment facility (few small town facilities can handles fracking flowback).

I didn't mind working from an 8x8 cube, but my current tiny desk in a maze of desks, all alike, is the pits (cue some nimrod posturing about how this enhances agile/availability/WTFever).

> how does this meaningfully expand on the JavaScript ecosystem Moving from callback-based programming to generators + promises is like going from burning logs in dirt pits to gas stovetops.

A lot of the debate here pits "users can decide what's acceptable" against "Apple can decide what to sell".

Peer review has never been a designation of fact, just "you must be this tall to enter the fighting pits." Confusing peer review with fact is a public-perception problem, and a lot of that comes down to various antiscience groups whose work isn't even peer reviewed, let alone tested and challenged.