gg80

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by gg80 4mo ago
Mine is anecdotal evidence at best: I co-authored a fairly obscure book about the application of category theory to an extremely niche subject. There's basically no mention of the stuff in the book anywhere on the internet, nor in any
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by gg80 2y ago
If I remember correctly, there was this hypothesis that these things were covered by symbiotic algae so the idea is that they grew tall to increase the photosynthesis of their symbiotic organism (so kind of a giant lichen). But I can't
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by gg80 2y ago
Looking at this picture [1] of Bologna’s skyline from the sixties it seems it could be pretty realistic. The skyline has changed drastically and now you have many more tall buildings that make the remaining tower seems shorter. Also, I thin
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by gg80 3y ago
Try with cargo pants. After three or four iterations the pants disappeared and were substituted by something that can only be described as an andrologist fever dream.
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by gg80 3y ago
Nope, no more AI in Italy, at least that's what our government decided. And no more English too.
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by gg80 4y ago
If I’m not mistaken RFC 4180 says that quotes should be escaped by prepending them with another quote, so “” and not \” (these are not double quotes but my phone won’t let me type normal quotes), but yeah I guess it is a rather perverse val
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by gg80 4y ago
Actually it’s made in Parma, Reggio Emilia, Modena, part of Bologna and part of Mantua.
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by gg80 4y ago
Nah, there are a bajillion ways of making pizza in Italy, it’s just that the thick and soft one is never round, but even the round one can be thicker or thinner depending on the local preference. It would actually be interesting to find out
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by gg80 5y ago
It’s still debated if that is the correct etymology. A different hypothesis has “penguin” deriving from the Latin “pinguis” (fat).
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by gg80 5y ago
Blueberries are actually quite common in the Mediterranean area, but you are right about salmon.
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by gg80 6y ago
It seems the patent has been discontinued: https://patents.google.com/patent/US6853964B1/en