fallinghawks

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by fallinghawks 10d ago
And you have to renew every 5 years, which runs around $60-80.
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by fallinghawks 11d ago
As long as you have TSA precheck or a known traveler number, which costs money.
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by fallinghawks 19d ago
In the last couple months if you go to their site in a mobile browser (e.g. from search results), after a short scroll down they have this popup demanding you install their app and it completely takes over the screen. I take it as a reminde
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by fallinghawks 28d ago
Epoxy and a neodymium disk magnet and Bob's your uncle
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by fallinghawks 1mo ago
Yes, I had one of those cards. It made you feel like you were accessing government secrets. In 2007.
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by fallinghawks 1mo ago
This is mystifying to me. I had a membership in a maker shop and took a welding course. I had a project in mind and bought 6 pieces of stainless tubing online. They came in standard lengths but iirc they would cut them for an additional cha
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by fallinghawks 1mo ago
Heck, we're living Idiocracy right now.
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by fallinghawks 1mo ago
It shouldn't be astonishing. The bombs dropped in Japan did create nuclear shadows of human beings when their bodies were annihilated. When Bradbury wrote it (1950), that was very, very fresh.
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by fallinghawks 1mo ago
I've had exactly the same coffee drinking habit for decades: about 22-23 oz first thing before breakfast and that's it. Once in a very rare while (on the scale of a few times a year) I'll have a masala chai or matcha in the e
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by fallinghawks 2mo ago
These come in a 6 pack at Costco (not black garlic though; Costco's comes with hot oil). They're surprisingly tasty for instant.
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by fallinghawks 2mo ago
Particularly tonkotsu, which basically has fat emulsified into it. My understanding is that ramen was originally a workman's meal -- inexpensive and calorie rich food for laborers.
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by fallinghawks 2mo ago
Kenji Lopez Alt is a well known chef who writes a lot about the science behind making food (which might contribute to it being HN-worthy). Though I understand where you're coming from, his ethnicity (Caucasian and Japanese; the Lopez c
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by fallinghawks 2mo ago
I ran into the same thing on a cooking blog (which I had visited many times before) a few weeks back. I was pretty mystified but like you, spidey sense kept me from running the code. It's insidious because it looks like it's comin
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by fallinghawks 2mo ago
About 4-5 years ago I bought a Bosch 500 dishwasher. Loved it. Excellent performance. The top silverware rack could be adjusted to fit slightly larger items. There was a very basic clock display to tell you how long the cycle would take. An
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by fallinghawks 3mo ago
At least they had the Dickcissel.
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by fallinghawks 3mo ago
And it's a single case which could simply be an anomaly. You'd need a serious controlled study to get any meaningful info about the effectiveness. Very curious exactly who made the decision/gave permission to take granny on a
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by fallinghawks 4mo ago
In most cases, infected droppings are the primary source. But my understanding is that there does exist a strain that transmits between humans, and the cruise ship situation has just been confirmed to be that type. The good news is that han
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by fallinghawks 5mo ago
I'm not sure why you'd say sexual orientation is a choice; it's not, any more than race. Religion is a choice. Politics are a choice. The operative word of "earnestly-held belief" is "held" -- you can let
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by fallinghawks 5mo ago
A political position is not a weakness, it's a choice.
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by fallinghawks 6mo ago
I suspect many towns have "A Street" which has always given me a giggle. In the Bay Area, Hayward has a sign for A Street Downtown. Downtown is on the 2nd line but could be misparsed as desired.
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by fallinghawks 6mo ago
"email us for a chance to win a free trip to Switzerland" A chance to win is not enough motivation for me to actually write the email. I would assume it was simply an opportunity to collect email addresses, so I (personally) am
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by fallinghawks 6mo ago
In the other direction, my camera regularly identifies cats, crows, and shadows as people. I think recognition in security cameras has a very long way to go.
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by fallinghawks 6mo ago
Unfortunately, consequences have been largely absent for anyone in this administration since the last time they were in power. That's part of why this round they've been flaunting it so egregiously.
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by fallinghawks 7mo ago
As others said, security definitely existed, typically in the form of metal detectors and x ray scans. Planes had been hijacked since the 70s and that's when it started. 9/11 just ramped up security to very high levels.
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by fallinghawks 7mo ago
I brought a foil wrapped breakfast burrito through security with not the slightest idea that it might look like an IED. This was years before 9/11 so they just made me open my backpack and assure them it was food.
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by fallinghawks 7mo ago
I remember when the place started to go. It had been Mecca for all the components and switches and tools, and fun to visit. Then shelves were no longer full and as time went on, sported increasingly wide gaps. Toward the end, far more shelf
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by fallinghawks 7mo ago
I kept a dream journal for years and very rarely had lucid dreams. 6-8 times at most over 30 years. I definitely got better at remembering dreams -- it also helped if I could build a narrative that would keep the different segments tied tog
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by fallinghawks 7mo ago
I played this quite a few years ago and felt pretty certain that they deliberately chose photos that were atypical of each ethnicity. That said, there kind of is no typical Chinese look since it's such a huge country. Those in the nort
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by fallinghawks 7mo ago
I agree the way he writes about it is uncomfortable. At the same time I also think some people motivate themselves with a version of "Do or do not, there is no try." He desperately wants to do something, but a lot is simply out of
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by fallinghawks 8mo ago
It's appalling how they go straight to making things up to suit their narrative, as if video evidence doesn't exist. They know the MAGAs will believe them, and may shed doubt on interpretation for people who aren't that curio

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