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by azepoi 5y ago
No it is more like talking about the Meiji era for events outside Japan.
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by azepoi 5y ago
Firefox mobile has ublock too.
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by azepoi 5y ago
What about a non zero launch speed with some electrical ramp, railgun style?
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by azepoi 5y ago
I remember a C3 talk showing how ridiculously insecure these booking systems (GDS) were. You should assume every intelligence agency has their hands on this data, as it is shared among so many parties. https://media.ccc.de/v
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by azepoi 5y ago
Is it possible to put these mitigations for Javascript only in the browser?
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by azepoi 5y ago
Mentioned in the last episode of Machine Thinking, along with Agricola's De Re Metallica and Vitruvius' De Architectura https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZEHNbmz_9A
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by azepoi 5y ago
There is another one called Boom. I am aware it is about sonic boom but still.
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by azepoi 5y ago
In some circles it has completely replaced SMS. While it has chating features, the normal message sms use case also takes place within whatsapp in these circles/countries.
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by azepoi 5y ago
I notice s being pronounced sh. It shtrikes me as more frequent now.
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by azepoi 5y ago
Good catch they searched for a unit converter online but didn't realized they confused absolute temperature with a relative difference of temperatures.
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by azepoi 6y ago
It was a mess https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Units_of_measurement_in_France... each town had variations https://fr.geneawiki.com/index.php?title=Fichier:Instruction...
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by azepoi 6y ago
there is also Enviolo's NuVinci continuous variable transmission
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by azepoi 6y ago
it's not perfect but it's gotten better apparently. 170 countries have signed a treaty significantly reducing the fuel sulphur content. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARPOL_73/78#IMO_2020 https:/&#
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by azepoi 6y ago
In the EU the Munster cheese you'll find is generally from Alsace, it's protected (PDO).
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by azepoi 6y ago
It was so popular it displaced the french word for fox. Foxes were called "goupil", "renard" in modern french.
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by azepoi 6y ago
Nice, i've used Engauge Digitizer in the past http://markummitchell.github.io/engauge-digitizer/
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by azepoi 6y ago
If you still have the references would you mind sharing links?
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by azepoi 6y ago
Lakes can also be subject to tsunamis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tauredunum_event
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by azepoi 6y ago
Direct link to the study: Perera, D., Smakhtin, V., Williams, S., North, T., Curry, A., 2021. Ageing Water Storage Infrastructure: An Emerging Global Risk.UNU-INWEH Report Series, Issue 11. United Nations University Institute for Water, Env
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by azepoi 6y ago
It's even worse than that, for a drag force proportional to the square of the speed, the power is proportional to the cube of the speed. As for the transatlantic voyage in 12 days vs 8 or 6 I don't know on what they based it. Mayb
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by azepoi 6y ago
The target speed is around 10 knots. Commercial cargo vessels are designed at 20-23 knots, some lower at 15-18 knots (slow steaming), rounding it at 20. So they need about a quarter of the power to maintain half the speed.
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by azepoi 6y ago
You need to mirror some of these left-right before attempting to read them. Da Vinci famously wrote in mirror. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_writing#Notable_example...
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by azepoi 6y ago
Golden apple is a tomato ( pomodoro ) in Italian.
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by azepoi 6y ago
Feynman gave this as a public address to a 1955 meeting of the National Academy of Sciences. It was then published in Engineering and Science 19: 13–15. ISSN 0013-7812. You can find it retranscribed here http://www.faculty.umas
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by azepoi 6y ago
The title is reminiscent of Poincaré's essay La valeur de la science . It was translated into english with the same title The Value of Science . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Value_of_Science
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by azepoi 6y ago
it's more visible today https://zoom.earth/#view=-55.849,-35.645,7z/date=2020-12-21,... https://www.windy.com/-Satellite-satellite?satellite,-55.933...
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Deciphering Linear Elamite, the world’s oldest phonetic writing system(archaeoreporter.com)
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by azepoi 6y ago
Gitana 17 who attempted the Jules Verne trophy is also said to have collided with an UFO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Verne_Trophy#Failed_reco... https://tropheejulesverne.sodebo.com/#cartographi
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by azepoi 6y ago
This is the open-access paper https://jkms.org/DOIx.php?id=10.3346/jkms.2020.35.e415
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by azepoi 6y ago
I think there is a place for sailing cargo ships, not convinced about wood though but would love to be wrong. Related, here is a project of a 67.5m/221ft long (LOA) sailing ship, with what looks like a steel hull https://www

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