fallinghawks

The Cooper's hawk is known to falconers and rehabbers as fitting perfectly inside a (clean) Pringles can. ;)

I must correct you on hacking, though. This process starts with just-fledged raptors, already grown to full size, fully feathered, but raised in closed quarters. They are put in a shelter surrounded by plenty of space for flying where they can see the outdoors, and they are fed daily for a few days to acclimate. Then the shelter is opened and they're allowed to explore. Food continues to be provided daily. The day that one of the birds doesn't come back for its daily feeding indicates it has caught something on its own, and is ready to be recaptured and trained as a falconry bird.

This process allows the birds to learn flying and hunting as if they were wild raptors. It reduces certain negative behaviors you get in human-imprinted birds, and gives them "street smarts" i.e. recognizing and avoiding other predators. These days of course we put telemetry tags on them so they're easy to locate and recover.

As metaphor it would be training to deal with the wide wild world, which HN has a bit of too.

Now do Hawks in Socks!

(Nylon stockings are commonly used when transporting a wild bird for an hour or two).

A year or two ago when I was doing some searching in Maps for trails to hike in Hawaii, I noticed that if a trail didn't have an "official" website i.e. pointing to a local government page, in several cases a certain photographer had put his website into that spot. And later I discovered he had done this not only in Hawaii but several trails in Utah as well. It would not surprise me if he's hit up hundreds of trails for free advertising via Google's lack of vetting.

I reported it, of course, (as someone else mentioned, Suggest an Edit) and they got changed, but I haven't checked to see if he changed them back.

Pretty neat. I was able to find Quakesat, a cubesat that a friend of mine worked on. It was only expected to last a year, but kept going for around 5 or so.

goshawk-cocaine = gyrfalcon , which is funny if you know anything about goshawks and gyrfalcons

(Goshawks are very intense, gyrs tend to be leisurely in flight.)

Seems to be a word not in its dictionary. Seems to not have any country or language names.

Edit: these must be capitalized to be recognized.

Wells Fargo too. Every other banking institution says never to give an OTP to someone on the phone, but that's exactly how WF verifies you when you call them. The only thing is that they do text the number already on file with them, not a number you give them on the fly, but that's only microscopically more secure.

I just hit 60. For the past 3 or so years I've always had some physical problem that is longer-term. Most of them are muscle strains (partially torn rotator cuff last year, plantar fascitis before that), and pretty annoying to keep ending up in PT for something new after many years of pretty robust health. Up to a few years ago I was going on 1-2 hour hikes 2-3 times a week and have always been very flexible due to doing yoga at a young age. I can bend over knees straight and put my palms flat on the floor. It's been trying to get into my head that my body just isn't what it used to be.

Very interesting, thanks much for the link!

> Germans who spoke perfect English and had often grown up in the US.

Curious if you have any links that go into this further. Were they Americans of German descent who rejoined family in Germany, or? I'm sure it's not monolithic but curious if there was a pattern.

Back when the price of crude oil was in the news a lot, if a rise was announced, gas stations would immediately hike prices, even though it takes like a month for the oil to be refined into gas and delivered to the station.

The hypocrisy exhibited by the right is crazy: issues with Democrats are blown far out of proportion while the same or even more severe issues are nothingburgers when committed by Republicans. I do agree Biden's cognitive health should have been looked at more, but Trump's got serious problems that also aren't being given enough airtime.

I'm curious how the eye migraine is related. I had one many, many years ago. It was a smallish (palm at arm's length) oval in the center of my vision that looked like snow on an analog TV, accompanied by a feeling of overwhelmed by all the colors of the products on the shelves (I was in a grocery). It stuck around for about half an hour for me as well.

I've also had eye floaters which cause things to distort and can be hard to see through. For about 6 months I had a large one in the center of my left eye vision, which was a bit scary when I discovered I might not see a car reflected in my wing mirror.

19/20. The first many were very obvious. I missed #14 and I think right around there I started to slow down because the differences were getting smaller. Looking away and then coming back helped, I think. It seemed like if you look at them too long, whichever circle you're looking at seems to shift color and it becomes really hard to discern the difference.

As the old saw goes, on the internet nobody knows you're a dog.

There was an old genetic biologist who swallowed a fly...

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The ignoring of quoted words is pretty annoying, especially when the search engine assumes you have spelled something wrong. Search is also incredibly sales oriented - shopping results are prioritized and fill up your results over the information you're wanting.

I was joking last year that we needed AI because regular search had gotten so awful. Not really a joke now.

This is more dishy

https://youtu.be/MJEngub8SHw?si=qc4ZDl43b-jQpmWj

I always pick the cheapest Lyft available; I'm not spending a whole lotta time in it so a luxury ride isn't a priority.

I've taken Waymo only twice (I try to avoid SF), from the ferry building to Chinatown, then back. Both times it was more expensive than Lyft with tip, but only by $2-3. It's good to know it can be cheaper.

Trump derangement syndrome is just a way for Trumpers to avoid thinking critically or having to defend anything about Trump. "You have TDS" lets them pretend they are the sane ones and disengage.

I've backed 3 kickstarter items, 2 have been great, 1 was not very good quality but still worked. I don't do this much because I'm generally skeptical. One of the successes did take an extra ~6 months to arrive and mine was slightly defective but they did immediately replace it for me.

I also roast for personal consumption, about 25 pounds per year, and concur on the price increase. Just a few years ago green coffee was in the $6.50 range (and when I started roasting about 7 years ago, even $5), but as you said more like $8.50 now. I just did a relatively large buy (about 20 pounds) as a just-in-case because it's impossible to predict what the demented orange or the ketamine-stuffed Nazi will do.

Ooh, thanks for finding that. I'll definitely want to try out the Orenz models and the Uni as well.

My most treasured tools when I used to draw were Pentel 0.3 sliding sleeve pencils, model PS523. The sleeve let me put a lot of pressure on a very fine lead without breaking. And of course the lead was wonderful to use, very smooth. B was the softest lead available in that diameter, so it was hard to get a really dark black, hence the need for pressure.

I've bought a number of mechanical pencils since the model was discontinued and have been only disappointed. Few enough have the sliding sleeve, and on the few that do, the sleeve does not move at all smoothly. There may never be another pencil like it.

For ink drawing I have a set of Sakura Pigma Micron pens in different widths, also a lovely tool, and for general writing, Uniball micros are my pen of choice.

I think it's more than coincidence that all these are Japanese.

Ah, thank you for not being lazy like me.

Perhaps so, but it's not right for a study of 144 white, straight, young people to get conflated into representing all men and women.

A friend and his husband have retired to Lisbon and are having a great time. The gay community there seems to be thriving.

Not the person you asked, but I also have a 2 word middle name. I enter both but it's a crapshoot as to whether it will take the first, the second, or both. I think a lot of older systems could handle 2 words in the first name (e.g. Joe Bob or Mary Ann) but not the middle.

I see what you're saying. Perhaps an upfront messaging would have been sensible, e.g. stating that Americans of Asian descent have no connection to this virus. But I'm unsure of how much effect it would have on bigots who will be bigots. During that administration bigots were emboldened, as they are even more so during this one.