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by giva 3y ago
I believe that, in terms of compactness and image quality, it is hard to beat Sony's mirrorless, but personally I can't stand their ergonomics.
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by giva 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_electric_vehicl... A combination of battery and electric motor is an obvious solution for powering a vehicle. This is nothing new, revolutionary or disruptive. It has been t
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by giva 3y ago
> The thing is, the ICE has had well over a century of perfecting Just a reminder that EV has had well over a century of perfecting too.
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by giva 4y ago
BSD has in-kernel audio mixing, IIRC.
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by giva 4y ago
Amorphis wrote some songs/albums allegedly based on the Kalevala
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by giva 4y ago
Had this article been the difficulties to build a manufacturing plan on an area reserved for industrial use, I would agree. But I don't believe that changing the destination of agricultural land has to be a fast and easy process.
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by giva 4y ago
> Yes, you need to obtain “permission” before you build any manufacturing structure on your own land with your own money. This permission is called the NA or Non-Agricultural Certificate. Well, I though it was this way everywhere in the
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by giva 4y ago
To be honest, i think that even if they offering overlaps with SAP R/3 or S/4HANA, they overlap at the lower end (500-5k employees) and not really at the top end (> 100k employees) where MS sits. Furthermore, AFAIK Microsoft st
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by giva 4y ago
Microsoft offers Dynamics 365 F&O (previously known as Dynamics AX) for medium to large companies. (Microsoft uses SAP as an ERP).
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by giva 4y ago
Water piping is still specified in inches, at least in Italy. Also in Italy, when dealing with agricolture, forestry, and related services, non-SI surface units are still commonly used, at leat in the north: https://it.wikipedia.
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by giva 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle
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by giva 4y ago
Italy had something similar, not designed to kill its own crew however. https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siluro_a_lenta_corsa
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by giva 5y ago
A bit off topic, but I always find it funny when people talk about electric motors and batteries as if they were invented to solve the shortcomings of internal combustion engines, when it is quite the opposite.
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by giva 5y ago
“There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.” ― Ernest Hemingway
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by giva 5y ago
And the goal of PEG's empolyees is to get bonuses by hitting the metrics set for them. Metrics are the only goal that means there. It's all about making the numbers look pretty.
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by giva 5y ago
Apart from the mass distribution, if you look at a car travelling on an uneven road from the reference point of the car itself, you will see the wheels moving up and down very quickly to keep contact with the ground. My understanding is tha
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by giva 5y ago
AFAIK, even on Teslas, the infotainment system run on the low voltage circuit, powered by the same lead-acid battery used in ICE vehicles.
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by giva 5y ago
Russia did it in 1918. For this reason, the "October revolution" happened in November.
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by giva 5y ago
Iirc, the minimum value for a datetime type in SQL server used to be 1/1/1753, for the same reason.
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by giva 5y ago
I use KNX for the "important" lights. KNX is very reliable and completely decentralized, so it continues to work evern if the server crashes, but it is also very expensive. For all the utility lights, I use ZigBee. For irrigation,
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by giva 5y ago
I think they did have a freewheel however. Here's some footage from 1946: https://youtu.be/k0AUknbBZ3U
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by giva 5y ago
I think they are more focused on power nowadays. The "screenshot" shows speed, power and distance.
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by giva 5y ago
Link for clarification: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant_bearing%2C_decreasing...
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by giva 5y ago
The rest of the world uses overhead lines for powering trains (I'm a bit shocked to learn that this is not the norm in the US, actually)
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by giva 5y ago
https://www.flightradar24.com/WZZ6285/27cf8309
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by giva 6y ago
I agree. Also, truncating a string won't work. The first 3 characters of "Österreich" are not "Ös" in my opinion.
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by giva 6y ago
I think they are mostly used when an AC trasmission is impossible: AFAIK only synchronized grids can be connected by AC. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/Electric...