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by jaclaz 3y ago
The issue is that "Cummins engine" is very generic, there are tens of different models, different bore x stroke, different power delivered, mounted on tens of different vehicles (with different weights and suited for different use
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by jaclaz 3y ago
A rebuilt engine is your engine where (hopefully) all needed to be replaced parts were actually replaced (locally). A refurbished engine is another engine (identical to yours) where all needed to be replaced parts were (still hopefully) rep
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by jaclaz 3y ago
Particularly with company/fleet trucks or cars, you normally have an "own" paper log with all the repairs and maintenance performed, so, if you are in good faith, if the odometer breaks at (say) 190,000 miles and the new one
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by jaclaz 3y ago
Sure, though the fired ones are much more resistant than naturally dried ones. The note was more about the fact that clay in different states (wet/fired/dried) has very different properties and that the parent comment was ignoring
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by jaclaz 3y ago
Bricks are cooked clay. Venice substrate is wet clay.
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by jaclaz 3y ago
Laser erasers? Example, one used on some monuments in Florence: https://www.lasersystemseurope.com/news/infrared-laser-used-...
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by jaclaz 3y ago
Shouldn't this be a "Show HN:"? (possibly with a more meaningful and less clickbaity title)
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by jaclaz 3y ago
Yes, it is very possible that "engineered" fire-resistant wood (and all the added chemicals that come into play with that) could be toxic, one way or the other, we are already using in construction lots of "engineered" (
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by jaclaz 3y ago
[2020]
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by jaclaz 3y ago
But if you compare data transfer speed of an IDE 33 rotating hard disk against a SATA (or better Nvme) SSD, and then, once data is transferred from storage you managed it in what amount of (much slower) RAM (at the most in 8 Mb in Win 3.x t
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by jaclaz 3y ago
Could be four words "sexually active fertile women" but in these times each one of those words would likely be an ethical or privacy related violation.
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by jaclaz 3y ago
I remember a HP machine (@600Mhz) which my company bought circa 2001 that came with an install CD that had both NT 4.00 and Windows 2000 and the user could decide to install the one or the other, a few machines had initially NT 4.00 due to
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by jaclaz 3y ago
>Where is this doubling down? It certainly isn't in this article It is mentioned also in the article: >then continued to stand by the fake opinions after judicial orders called their existence into question.”
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Popular?
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Yep, though currently they are not even very cheap used, right now a used Panda year 2021 with low mileage (10-20,000 km) is around 12,000-13,000 Euro. A 2019 one with relatively low mileage (50,000 to 60,000 km, maybe 70,000 km) is likely
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by jaclaz 3y ago
... in salmons ...
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by jaclaz 3y ago
The Fiat Panda nowadays (I know as we needed a small car and asked for one no more than 1 month ago) is realistically around 17,000 Euro, and (as said recent direct experience) they are going to deliver one no earlier than six-seven months
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by jaclaz 3y ago
The C is always hard before an A, O an U, in Spanish and Italian, the soft one is before E and I. To have the hard C in Italian an H needs to be added, CHE or CHI (while in Spanish that leads to something more like tch).
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by jaclaz 3y ago
>growing up in Europe It is not like Europe is a "same thing". Common habits in Finland or Sweden (say) are very different from (still say) Italy or Spain.
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by jaclaz 3y ago
At least in Italy, nowadays a Sandero starts around 12,500 Euro for the base-base model, it is more likely that actual sold cars are in most cases more around 14,000 Euro. It remains the cheapest car avaialble, though the 10,000 price point
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by jaclaz 3y ago
If the info in this thread is accurate, it is for 3 (three) workstations, I would call it a tiny deal: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36417968 Shouldn't be of relevance.
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by jaclaz 3y ago
According to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upside_Foods the goal was to sell at 60 Euro/kg (by 2020). Not exactly competitive, pricewise.
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by jaclaz 3y ago
Honest question, how would an inflatable something work at those depths? 4,000 meters should mean 400 bars of pressure from the water, would the thing need to be inflated at more than 400 bar?
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by jaclaz 3y ago
Yes, though it is not used much anymore, in Italy most contracts are 3 kW, a number have been upgraded to 4.5 kW or to 6 kW, but that's it. Due to the way contracts are currently made, there is a fixed amount you pay for the availabili
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by jaclaz 3y ago
>TL;DR you're still not going to have a supercharger at home any time soon. Yep, and even if you have 3 phases and a large main fuse, the issue remains when you sum all the power needed on a same street in a city. And I apologize if
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by jaclaz 3y ago
>In most of Europe homes do have 3-phase power and large loads like an EV are required to use it. Yes and no, distribution is usually 3-phase so the 3 phases do arrive to the building, but in a number of countries in Europe inside the ho
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by jaclaz 3y ago
It depends on which author you follow, the wikipedia page mentions (besides reports he said nothing) also reports he said something aimed to other people (not Brutus): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_words_of_Julius_
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by jaclaz 3y ago
Only as a side note, the "Et tu (Brute)" is only in Shakespeare, the classic Latin being "Tu quoque (Brute, fili mi)", even if whatever was said (if anything) was more likely said in Greek which in the times of Ceasar wa
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by jaclaz 3y ago
There was the Microsoft Surface (no, not that Microsoft Surface, the other Microsoft Surface), circa 2007/8, though it was more like a huge "all in one", not particularly cheap/convenient, US$ 10,000 (in 2007): https:&#
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Would that be the half-flat theory? ;) https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/flat

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