weeds

The risk of the current crop of engineered plants becoming super-weeds that choke the planet is not zero, but also not plausible from a biological perspective.

Hope fully the process weeds out really bad roads like the one cited as starting the whole affair.

If your game is complicated, you will have to get into the weeds of the canvas API.

Motion picture and video artists are typically a lot deeper in the weeds of color than photographers.

First there's the human curation step of reviewing apps for acceptance into the store, which weeds out the total junk.

Would improved photosynthesis be liable to find its way into nearby weeds via horizontal gene transfer?

If you get deep into the weeds, you'll need to use the API directly, i.e.

On my last endeavor, I got way into the server-side weeds with profiles and accounts and billing.

Rather than weeding out the people who will fail the test, it weeds out the people who understand that asking for homework is unreasonable.

It's their garden, so they get to decide which weeds to pull.

I was trying to avoid running off into the endless weeds of details and acronyms and talking, but oh well...

Someone has to do the weeding, or it will be all weeds.

"The Internet" is taken for granted and is so down in the weeds for most people that they don't realize they're using it.

At the meta-level, downvoted humor is invariably followed by "why all the downvotes, lighten up" driving any hope of anyone learning anything about anything other than the way HN tends to work further into the weeds with a pitcher of hurt feelings.