Karto

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by Karto 7y ago
Pity. I live in a remote part of France, shaped by hills, forests, and very devoid of public services. Most people don't have too much money, yet every third car you see is an SUV or 4WD, because they actually are quite useful in daily
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by Karto 7y ago
And more spot on the cynics, whose name just says it : get inspired from those dogs. (although admittedly their name comes from the "swift dog's gymnasium", their gathering place, they themselves started embracing the pun as
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by Karto 7y ago
Quietness. Slowness causing you to deliberately select what information you need enough to bother finding it.
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by Karto 7y ago
Reminds me of a friend of mine who's a lot into horses. She once told me "We say that books about horses and riding can only teach you the things that you already know."
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by Karto 7y ago
I'm coming to wonder whether it could be a typo in the Italian Police's report, that other media may have corrected. Pretty much all media have written that they fought ALONG the separatists. See French Le Monde and German Deutsch
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by Karto 7y ago
That would be a Hollywood version of the ideology. Right extreme groups are quite a tangled mess. Many of these groups in Europe are looking up to Russia (and Poland, and Hungary, and Serbia) right now. Those eastern european countries are
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by Karto 7y ago
I've been working for a few years for a large European trucks manufacturer. Two brands were co-developing a new range of models, one brand a bit more luxurious than the other. The "slightly lower end" brand were making a very
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by Karto 7y ago
Sécurité Civile, the guys who operate water bombing aircraft, have tweeted a couple of times that the dynamic pressure of water would present too much of a threat to the structure. https://twitter.com/SecCivileFrance/st
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by Karto 8y ago
A few years ago, discovering J and playing a bit with it, I went through phases : "this looks square and clean, a nice exercise in language design" -> "those guys take it way too seriously" -> "people seem to
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by Karto 8y ago
I've done exactly that for my monthly time reports at work. The company's official ERP in which we report our monthly activities is a horrendously slow and error-prone old-school GUI, where you basically punch a lot of numeric cod
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by Karto 8y ago
France has "refuges", but the word mushes a wide variety of accommodations together. Around Chamonix "refuges" will be full-service hotels sitting above glaciers, resupplied by helicopter. But most of the refuges, in mos