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by guerby 6y ago
Page 38 of this document you have a nice graph of the ages of the conductors of France high voltage lines: https://assets.rte-france.com/prod/public/2020-07/Sch%C3%A9m... "RTE France" is the entity
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by guerby 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_Barbieri%27s_fast "Starting in June 1965, Scottish man Angus Barbieri (1939 – 7 September 1990) fasted for 382 days. He lived on tea, coffee, soda water and vitamins, living at
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by guerby 6y ago
I've never looked deeply into this notification thing but people seem to conflate saving the battery and having only one notification server. If energy used by firing up the CPU frequency plus the 4G radio to send some packet is the ma
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by guerby 6y ago
Submitted the exact same URL two days ago, isn't HN supposed to merge same URLs discussions? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24431211
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by guerby 6y ago
https://www.auto-infos.fr/Bilan-2019-le-marche-VO-etablit-un... In France in 2019 2.61 used cars were sold for each new car.
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Imperial mathematician scoops $3M Breakthrough Prize(imperial.ac.uk)
152 points by guerby 6y ago|103 comments
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In China, GitHub Is a Free Speech Zone for Covid Information(wired.com)
4 points by guerby 6y ago|0 comments
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Sensors of world’s largest digital camera snap first 3200-megapixel images SLAC(www6.slac.stanford.edu)
2 points by guerby 6y ago|0 comments
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by guerby 6y ago
"Lewis asked why Timm had omitted Kromberg’s reference to the grand jury decision? Timm replied that it meant very little: 99.9% of grand juries agree to return a prosecution. An academic study of 152,000 grand juries had revealed only
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by guerby 6y ago
HAL proposes to authors automatic transfer to a few open archives: "Transfert automatique des documents vers une archive ouverte internationale telle qu'ArXiv ou Pubmed Central "
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by guerby 6y ago
protocol and metadata in HAL follows OAI-PMH: Open Archives Initiative - Protocol Metadata Harvesting https://www.openarchives.org/pmh/ With a very long list of institutions following the same standard.
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by guerby 6y ago
In France we have HAL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper_Articles_en_Ligne "Hyper Articles en Ligne, generally shortened to HAL, is an open archive where authors can deposit scholarly documents from all academic
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by guerby 6y ago
Quant teams in financial derivatives do lots of Monte Carlo and probably incorporating state of the art Math knowledge in their code.
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by guerby 6y ago
"We can offer a few additional recommendations: Transparency and openness: (...) More generally, the competitive benefits of a closed platform approach to hardware internals should be reassessed in 2020. This balance may have been hist
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Australia’s first large scale solar garden – city dwellers of the world, unite(pv-magazine-australia.com)
1 points by guerby 6y ago|1 comments
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by guerby 6y ago
"The cross-examinations showed the weakness of the thirty minute guillotine adopted by Baraitser, with really interesting defence testimony cut short, and then unlimited time allowed to Lewis for his cross examination. This was particu
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by guerby 6y ago
"You are free to republish this article, including in translation, without further permission. A brief note left in comments below detailing where it is republished is appreciated." Really nice!
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Paper Keyboard Is Self-Powered(hackaday.com)
1 points by guerby 6y ago|0 comments
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A New Theory Asks: Could a Mask Be a Crude ‘Vaccine’?(nytimes.com)
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by guerby 6y ago
Moore in the movie Sicko displayed this in a funny way (I'm french): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicko "In France, Moore visits a hospital and interviews the head of obstetrics and gynaecology and a group o
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Lidar is becoming a real business(arstechnica.com)
2 points by guerby 6y ago|0 comments
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by guerby 6y ago
protonmail states they're using Neustar for DDoS protection of their network: https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/email-ddos-pro... Very few players have the capacity by themselve to handle a large
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by guerby 6y ago
FUSE allows you to experiment new (or old) features easily nowadays, too bad it isn't mentionned in the article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_in_Userspace I use borg mount to access my backups for exam
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Google’s new Verified Calls feature will tell you why a business is calling you(techcrunch.com)
7 points by guerby 6y ago|1 comments
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by guerby 6y ago
Forgot to say that the french tax authority open sourced the (after FOIA-like pressure - called "CADA" in France) code that computes the tax amount from the tax form entries. It was written in a custom language (with documentation
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by guerby 6y ago
It depends a lot :). For the tax system it was developped with lots of free software, and support purchased to French IT companies. It was hosted on a big (for the time) linux server farm. Here are a few interviews and slides by the directo
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Taking 5G to work, in offices, and on the factory floor–will it help?(arstechnica.com)
2 points by guerby 6y ago|0 comments
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Android 11 is final with day-one updates from Google, OnePlus, and Xiaomi(arstechnica.com)
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by guerby 6y ago
In France you can fill your tax form online since 1999 https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A9l%C3%A9d%C3%A9claration... In the past years banks and companies give tax related information to the tax authority so for lots
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UCLA team proposes non-photosynthetic biological conversion of CO2(greencarcongress.com)
2 points by guerby 6y ago|0 comments

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