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by azepoi 6y ago
Mémoire morte is for PROM onboard chips in practice where you find bios, firmwares these kind of things. Mémoire de masse would include optical discs, storage in general. I'd say CDs are generally thought of as storage and are intercha
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by azepoi 6y ago
In french it can also all be called memory. Mémoire vive (lively/quick memory) is for RAM/DRAM etc. Mémoire morte (dead memory) for ROM/eeprom... and Mémoire de masse (mass memory) for storage/disc/tape.
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by azepoi 6y ago
Of course it's not really exponential. And even the simplest SIR toy model does not output an exponential solution, except as an aproximation at the start. My point was simply that it took several months between very low numbers at th
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by azepoi 6y ago
Exponential growth takes some time at the start before it is noticeable. And then it's unmanageable. Look at the time between the first and the second wave in Italy or France. It took a few months to become uncontrolled again after th
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by azepoi 6y ago
to this day "lax/lachs/laks" still means salmon in most germanic languages.
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by azepoi 6y ago
You should be thankful to have such strong and rational voices (Drosten and co) in the public discourse in Germany. I think that's one of the differences with France.
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by azepoi 6y ago
for me it was learning differential equations. From mechanical systems, chemical reactions, electrical circuits, ecological systems, control systems, epidemiology...
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Application of Geography to Mathematics: History of the Integral of the Secant(jstor.org)
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by azepoi 6y ago
Have you seen the 1978 series "Connections" from James Burke? History of science and technology is full of these.
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by azepoi 6y ago
To see how overbuilt they are, you have to compare to late masonry stone arch bridges that are more 'airy'. Like so https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_S%C3%A9journ%C3%A9#Galler... https://fr.wikipe
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by azepoi 6y ago
medieval trope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil's_Bridge
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by azepoi 6y ago
this type of bridge is common throughout Europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_medieval_bridges_in_Fr... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_medieval_stone_bridges... since antiquity ht
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by azepoi 6y ago
there are many more https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puente_de_fábrica
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by azepoi 6y ago
There is public architecture too, like municipal bell towers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWozMInlLUQ
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by azepoi 6y ago
For "cadres" ("executives" but really anyone with a job title requiring university degree like engineers) then the trial period can be extended to 8 months in France. By then you should know if you have made a bad hire.
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by azepoi 6y ago
Recently I know of Kommissar Dupin by Jean-Luc Bannalec (pseudonym), Parot's Nicolas Le Floch, Frédéric Lenormand's Voltaire.
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by azepoi 6y ago
https://www.ruv.is/frett/2020/09/26/kari-kemur-fronsku-ferda... https://www.ruv.is/frett/2020/09/22/logreglan-hafdi-afskipti...
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by azepoi 6y ago
I am constantly juggling between several languages and always preferred the desktop version for this reason.
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by azepoi 6y ago
There are loads of bastion fortresses in France thanks to this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sébastien_Le_Prestre_de_Vauban
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by azepoi 6y ago
This is only true if the circles are all of equal radius. With only 5 circles and 2 sizes you can get a significant increase to 87%. But the problem of practicality and cost benefit still stands.
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by azepoi 6y ago
Yes you can't have a very large menu with fresh seasonal ingredients.
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by azepoi 6y ago
Square packing density is pi/4 (~78.54%). The non regular packing approaches a hexagonal packing (pi*sqrt(3)/6 =~ 90.69%) for large N. For N=120 for example d=85% http://hydra.nat.uni-magdeburg.de/packing/csq&
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by azepoi 6y ago
Some use a local Lambert conformal conic projection.
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by azepoi 6y ago
I really don't like how Zoom forces the download of an executable, how doesn't this trip the antimalware? What a bad practice.
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by azepoi 6y ago
The other article was discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24220149
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by azepoi 6y ago
This put users through much unprompted and unsollicited change, Url bar at the bottom? etc We should have a disconnect between the engine updates/security features and the UI.
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by azepoi 6y ago
This is the infamous Wuppertaler Schwebebahn. What's with people calling cities and towns in foreign countries villages? Being unbeknownst to you doesn't mean it's a village. Wuppertal is home to 350 thousands inhabitants an
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by azepoi 6y ago
Voxels are the 3D equivalent of pixels
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by azepoi 6y ago
did anyone made tensile tests on a roman concrete specimen? Rebar is wildly used because reinforced concrete is not only used in compression but in beams, slabs ... and could be avoided in arched structures. Arches and domes can last a lost
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by azepoi 6y ago
this is wrong. Masks provide some protection it's not all or nothing.

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