It just got into an "we is you" type of interaction. Never got a question myself.

The point the story tries to make is that the Hawk learned traffic signals. That is not necessarily the case. It could be that the hawk just sees that the cars are blocking the sight of the prey.

Still an intelligent action, only does not mean the hawk understands the signal itself.

The suggestion is that the hawk hears the signal and knows that the line of cars is about to be unusually long in a minute, so it prepares by flying into position.

the story as told outlines that the hawk will stage itself when it hears the sound of the crosswalk, in anticipation of the line of traffic getting long enough for it to use as concealment.

There are big disadvantages from choosing e g. 5th normal form: any changing in business requirements leads to a big rewrite and data conversion. Never seen successful projects choosing beyond 3rd/BCNF.

What I missed in the piece is a description on how they did against the Dutch. Both Spanish and French were more ‘land type’ armies, as a Dutchmen I remember in the history wé were taught that the Dutch punched above their weight on sea warefare.

Indeed, if I had to wager, I would assume that the English against the Portuguese or the Dutch would do worse then against the Spanish or French, given the same firepower/size of ships etc. (For the record, did not check ‘the mighty internet’ whether my gut feelings are supported by facts) (Edit: but -> both)

Weren't Dutch ships much smaller but more numerous than the English? What I remember is reading that this made Dutch ships more maneuverable and more capable of piracy. They were good at harassing ports too.

A variation of the theory that there are only 7 different stories told in (fiction) books.

Have a complete different experience. As a physical major, did a famous Millikan's oil drop experiment. Am a terrible experimentalist (went on to do my PhD in theoretical physics), so we got a charge of about 1/3 of the charge of an electron. Now, as I did not get a Nobel prize, I did not actually measure the charge of a single quark, but still got good enough grades for this study.

CommunicateD ?

Replying to your other questions: Its been a while since I played chess regularly (in a chess club), but:

Two bishops (of different colour) is actually not that difficult. There are some simple heuristics to help you there (an LLM might actually tell you these, haven’t asked;-0)

Bishop+Knight is, in my opinion slightly more complicated, there are some ‘tricks’ necessary to keep the king from running from one courner to the next.

Bishop+bishop is - in most situations - a draw (you need three knights to mate).

oh I didn't knew bishop + bishop is draw in most situations. Sorry mate!

Also I am not sure , I thought that we were playing as white , but are we playing as black ?

But there is a reasoning (see my reply above): winning is not possible (only the queen is strong enough against two bishops), so draw should be the goal. And underpromoting to knight is only way to keep the piece for another move while still promoting.

its actually surprising how many difficult puzzles can be solved by a very small look ahead and playing the only move that doesn't lose. i've even seen strong GM solve puzzles like this. this is especially useful when the first move in the puzzle is very clear but there might be 5 or 6 reasonable candidate moves in reply and its just a waste of time to compute each variation.