elijahparker

Thanks for all your replies — I probably won’t watch this thread indefinitely, but feel free to reach out at elijahparker at gmail

> The tradition is Spanish is to keep the orthography synchronized with the oral form

Interesting, I guess that makes sense. I love how phonetic Spanish is, but I hadn’t considered that it means the spelling needs to equally evolve with the language in order to stay that way.

Interesting -- "setiembre" is new to me. Would 7° also then be "setima"?

I don't have custom names yet, but I think full Spanish support should be working now (though only with newly created calendars, since the language is determined at the start).

It gets the country from the browser rather than the location, but maybe I should change that.

I guess that makes sense with the month names since they’re coming from the js Date object. Are the weekday names in Spanish also then?

What would you need the month/weekday names customization for?

Hola de los estados unidos!

Good idea on customizing the names. That’s at least an easy way around translations for everything, although Spanish would be a good one to add anyway.

It’s already supposed to get the country holidays automatically (it uses some free API I can’t recall atm), so I’m not sure what’s wrong there, but I’ll see if I can find out.

Link here: https://sunrisecal.com/

I forgot to add this to the original post...

Wow, major oversight -- thanks!

https://sunrisecal.com/

Here’s a direct link to the article mentioned in the title: https://www.science.org/content/article/are-your-earliest-ch...

Map of paraquat usage in the US: https://blogs.sas.com/content/graphicallyspeaking/2021/05/07...

One thing encouraging to me is how much more data we have available now through things like eBird and radar, at a scale that couldn’t even be imagined before. Hopefully this leads to continued insight and action where needed.

Surface currents in deep water bodies flow at 45 degrees to the wind direction — I had never heard of this before reading this article which mentioned it: https://www.fox9.com/weather/lake-superiors-temperature-has-...

I second this — I love the taste of quality black coffee but the bad stuff really does need help (for me some cream). It can be a huge difference. Also the origin — this is a subjective thing, but I agree with the parent that single origin Central American is ideal by my tastes. Nicaraguan medium-dark roast, freshly roasted and ground. (Freshness is also very important).

Are there any consumer drones with a flight time of over an hour? (An hour+ of high-performance flight at that).

As a teen, I used to do this regularly in some woods in northern MN. On a moonless night I could navigate by looking up to see the stars through the gap in the trees, indicating the trail. I had many interesting and wonderful experiences— once a flock of whistling swans flew over and I saw their silhouettes pass through over. Another time I a startled a deer (and vise-versa) only a few feet away and it let out a terrifying scream. Another time a flying squirrel landed on my face while I was standing still.

Link to the study: https://academic.oup.com/jn/advance-article-abstract/doi/10....

“Diet and energy expenditure associations with adiposity demonstrate that only reported consumption of market-acquired “protein” and “carbohydrate” foods predicted children's body fat levels”

Agreed -- and the examples in the user comments were invaluable to me way back when I was getting started.

More info, including download links: http://ma-la.com/tsugite.html

GitHub: https://github.com/marialarsson/tsugite

The article explained it’s thought that the birds were seeking a place to land to avoid a storm and were drawn to the lights

Something I appreciated about Indonesian which doesn’t translate well to English (or many other languages that I’m aware of) is their two forms of “we”, inclusive and exclusive. “Kami”, excludes the one being spoken to, “Kita” includes them. In English this difference is typically only implied by context and can be ambiguous.

But think about it this way: if you have a plate moving back and forth in a square wave pattern at the surface of a pool of water, would the waves on the water be square?

The square wave signal will move the speaker in a square pattern, but the actual waves propagating through the air are always sine waves. What you get is a series of harmonics indicative of the square source.

I would strongly agree with this — learning and retention for me come easily when I’m interested, but are near impossible when I feel it’s irrelevant or I’m just not interested. Whether or not I’m gifted in something I’m interested in doesn’t really matter (and my suggestion is to not worry about this) since my interest gives me the perseverance and patience to learn and do well regardless of innate skill.

Yes, I learned to use a bell well in advance of approaching people on a unicycle after I had a few people scream in response to a gentle “on your left” as they had no idea of my presence.

That sounds great! But they’re currently faster than they’ve ever been? I don’t see how that reconciles with my experience I just described...

There are multiple little things that make me feel less trusting of stripe and that it’s shifting away to be more profit focused instead of customer oriented. One change that was unannounced (to my knowledge — maybe I missed something) was the payout schedule. It’s still two days technically, but at some point last year they started delaying the payout in their end if it was a weekend or holiday.

It used to be like this: income from Thursday, Friday and Saturday all arrived Monday, so Monday was a big payout day and this was good since it was often a higher expense day as well due to weekend charges being delayed to Monday.

Now, Thursday‘s sales arrive Monday (same), Friday’s Tuesday (a day later), and Saturday’s arrive on Wednesday (two days later), and any holidays further delay it.

This could be ok, but the unexpected change from what I had come to expect, and noting that it seems to be intentional design change on their end make it feel like they’re trying to delay the payout schedule while still claiming the same rolling 2-day, and in the end not really putting the customer first.

Yes, I used a brake as well. It can help with stopping quickly but only with much practice (well, stopping isn’t hard, but doing it comfortably). A brake also helps to drag on hills so as not to fatigue the legs and knees. Some in my group used a shift lever to operate the brake, carefully increasing until the right amount of drag was reached for comfortably going downhill.

Apart from keeping the pedals against your feet when jumping, holding the seat also allows for pulling down to put more torque on the pedals, like standing and pulling on the handlebars of a bike for when you need more force on the pedals than your weight.

I unicycled 1100 miles with a group through Europe (2001) and again about 500 miles in northern Norway (2003) with mostly the same group. Both were incredible experiences and a unicycle is actually a fun way to tour since you’re upright and able to look around, use a camera, dig things out of other riders’ backpacks, ride in close formation and hold a conversation easily. I tried to look up the website just now, but it’s gone. However, here’s the Norway trip on archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20060622062249/http://www.unitou....

Edit: on both trips we had a support vehicle carry much of our luggage. I really admire Ed for fully self-supporting — it definitely adds a lot to the challenge especially since most of the equipment to carry it is custom.

For a better visualization, 17 teaspoons is just over 1/3 cup, or 0.35 cups.

The music mentioned in the article: https://youtu.be/JgnYJWKyecE