jaclaz

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by jaclaz 4y ago
>Why is no other option offered to the user? Name these other options, please.
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by jaclaz 4y ago
Can you explain/provide some more details?
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by jaclaz 4y ago
Since the first years or 1900 and until the 1980's, before (carbonated) bottled mineral water became of more common use, carbonating powders for water were very common here in Italy, the most known was commercialized with the name of I
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by jaclaz 4y ago
Not really-really (pizza with the same ingredients existed before, and it was just renamed as Margherita): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29132535 What is true is that pizza was common only in the south of Italy, but
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by jaclaz 4y ago
Nomen est omen https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nomen_est_omen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism
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by jaclaz 4y ago
I had never thought of the (perceived or real) increased risk connected with (longer) stays at the gas station (or charging station) in remote areas at night. But now that the article mentioned it, it does make sense that people don't
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by jaclaz 4y ago
I was only trying to expand on the article with an example, the article is quite good in evidencing the common reasons why. In theory every single price is estimated analitically adding to market costs for materials and labor a percentage (
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by jaclaz 4y ago
You sure? ADA ramp max slope should be 1:12, i.e. 8.33% which is (IMHO) reasonable. https://www.ada-compliance.com/ada-compliance/ada-ramp
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by jaclaz 4y ago
It is very difficult to compare different (complex) projects (independently from whether they are public or private) because - Captain Obvious speaking now - they are different (not only the actual thing that is built, also the quality of t
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by jaclaz 4y ago
From experience, what you mention is part of the perverse effects of the bid mechanisms, but these have nothing to do with the initial underestimation and is comparatively minor in relevance. Something is designed (years time), then it is e
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by jaclaz 4y ago
That (re-paving 20-30 meters of a walkway) is a tiny project, it has nothing to do with the complexities of large projects (which are the theme of the article). On these tiny projects, usually the difference between what a public administra
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by jaclaz 4y ago
>- spoon and fork -> spork but also: test and spoon -> spork fork and knife -> spoon fork and sword -> spoon knife and sword -> dagger <- a good one test and knife -> jest test and sword -> quill
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by jaclaz 4y ago
I don't know how exactly, but it will likely affect "other" people as well. In theory if the average cost of repairs for minor collisions raises it is not only the EV insurance that raises, but that of all vehicles.
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by jaclaz 4y ago
Thanks for the comparison, though of course the Starman's site is a much better source than my scattered posts, mainly on: https://msfn.org/board/ and: http://reboot.pro/ (on this latter under the
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by jaclaz 4y ago
>The MBR checked which of the 4 possible primary partitions was flagged as active, and then booted control to the Volume Boot Record (Boot Sector) residing at the first sector of that particular partition which would then (usually, but s
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by jaclaz 4y ago
Sometimes I wonder how these things actually work (I am not talking of the actual cloth designs or their effectiveness, rather about how they manage to get this level of visibility). This project has been posted nearly everywhere in the las
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by jaclaz 4y ago
Only a few days ago there was a related Ask HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35109259
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by jaclaz 4y ago
Today's thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35195029 https://ddramdisk.store/
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by jaclaz 4y ago
When discussing about it the other day, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35171901 there was a reference to Arcsoft: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35172291 and it seems like the same thing (
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by jaclaz 4y ago
>2. What is the benefit of checkDaily over just calling/texting my elderly loved one? I assume that the USP is that I can easily forget about it and a machine cannot, right? I personally have it reversed, i.e. it is the elderly (my
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by jaclaz 4y ago
In Italian as well, "stella cadente".
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by jaclaz 4y ago
Now that you provided a good reference keyword (Arcsoft), it seems that it all already happened for the Galaxy S21 a couple years ago: https://www.inverse.com/input/reviews/is-samsung-galaxy-s21-...
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by jaclaz 4y ago
>... Samsung licenses from ArcSoft ... Interesting, though there seems to be no reference to this kind of function in Arcsoft site: https://www.arcsoft.com/product/single-camera-solutions-on-s... https://
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by jaclaz 4y ago
I don't think that it is "completely" random, in the sense that the message is telling something (maybe the exact way it is worded may make a difference), if it is actually "If you wish to use App Connect, please purchas
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by jaclaz 4y ago
The VP of finance is the same one that took two years + to realize (through an internal audit) that some 1,100,000 worth of invoice payments were paid on that account instead of the main one. This makes little sense, bordering to impossible
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by jaclaz 4y ago
In a nutshell, the savings are "virtual" (you will save on gas and electricity bill but need to pay the heat pumps, solar panels and the water deposit + the needed works) the (calculated, possibly a bit optimistically) break-even
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by jaclaz 4y ago
I don't think that 2+2=5 is a matter of viewpoints or opinions, and I don't see how correcting a factual mistake (or ignoring it) can affect your mental health and very likely corrections will be well received. If instead you are
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by jaclaz 4y ago
I believe they should be (should have been) Vertu and Savelli phones: https://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonydemarco/2015/02/14/a-jew...
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by jaclaz 4y ago
More like 2014-2015, the Allone Cloud Disk: https://www.thessdreview.com/daily-news/latest-buzz/allone-c... ... not cheap ...
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by jaclaz 4y ago
From what I have read about the matter (and from my little understanding) nothing of that sort happened. They were - for some reason - in need of some cash and they sold some bonds they had at a lower price than what they had bought them,

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