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by jaclaz 3y ago
Basically, clay or any other condition/material that insulates the body from oxigen (ground burials or sealed tombs). I wouldn't dare to say that weeks or month after death a corpse can still be "fresh", but in some plac
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by jaclaz 3y ago
Since it is 12.3 meters a more suitable unit of measure (for US journalists) should be the schoolbus.
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by jaclaz 3y ago
This: http://www.asimovonline.com/oldsite/future_of_humanity.html is a transcript of a 1974 talk/lecture that shows how fun and modest he was, while still delivering a lot of interesting points to ponder.
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by jaclaz 3y ago
The way a manual sphigmomanometer works is different from the way the electronic ones do[1], I would not be surprised if for a few people something else affects the reading of the pressure in the arm band. [1] Oscillometric vs. Auscultato
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by jaclaz 3y ago
Only as anecdata, I am using Brother (B&W) laser printers since many years in the office and almost all worked and work just fine, but I had some bad experience with DCP-8110DN and MFC-8520DN models: https://news.ycombinator
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by jaclaz 3y ago
I am supposedly living dangerously. I would say that apart from this (or that) issue with browsers (and stupid sites that make life difficult for XP users because they use new features that the few compatible with XP browsers have difficul
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by jaclaz 3y ago
>The claim is not wrong, for flights. Sure, but we are talking of hotel rooms and booking.com, not of flights. And surely large hotel chains (national and international) have their own systems and interfaces to whatever booking system,
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by jaclaz 3y ago
Try looking for "construction site time lapse camera", I have seen some where the time lapse can be regulated between something like 0.5s and 24h time, and they are by design outdoor/rugged and with long lasting batteries. It
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by jaclaz 3y ago
Define Europe, please.
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by jaclaz 3y ago
Maybe what you describe happens with automated/integrated tools, but I doubt it. The "manual" way to interact with booking.com from a hotel is simply to create on booking.com a list of available rooms while on the hotel side
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by jaclaz 3y ago
A note on the Notes: >The maximum size of an internal $Data attribute varies depending on the size of other attributes stored in the MFT record. Most sources give a maximum internal $Data attribute size of 600 to 700 bytes. Microsoft rep
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by jaclaz 3y ago
>influenced what would later become French and Spanish To be picky, also Italian, Portuguese and Romanian. If you are native or fluent in any of these languages and also have a basic knowledge of Latin, you are usually capable of reading
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by jaclaz 3y ago
Not really-really. You are comparing your English QWERTY, with the French AZERTY, but there are many more languages QWERTY. On the Italian keyboard (which is also QWERTY) the round brackets need Shift, but the square ones need AltGR.
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by jaclaz 3y ago
Yes, but there are industrial "high adherence" nails, such as annular nails (common in roofing) and cut clasps (sometimes used in flooring), examples: https://www.bradfords.co.uk/ironmongery-fixings-adhesives/
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by jaclaz 3y ago
In the stackexchange thread they say that 12 pieces makes a circle, so each one is 30 degrees, but they also say that you can fit 13 pieces in a "circle", which means that each piece has 30-360/13=2.30 degrees tolerance. The
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by jaclaz 3y ago
There are two aspects of the "difference": 1) The timber that was once a locally (or nearby) grown tree might nowadays be - while the same or very similar species - originating from some other country (with different climate/
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by jaclaz 3y ago
>Having worked in the space I came to the conclusion the only viable secure future is to adopt star topology local networks where local traffic for all devices goes into a single secure regularly updated broker device that then decides w
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by jaclaz 3y ago
The glock mechanism of safeties is (statistically) rather safe though being simple enough: https://crimefictionbook.com/2016/02/04/do-glocks-have-safet... But (as I learned only recently) there are guns aroun
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by jaclaz 3y ago
And another important point, public figures tend to have assistants with them that carry the money or the cards or just pay later.
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by jaclaz 3y ago
Yes, I agree with you, from the little experience I have, these thingies are very often (not in themselves, but due to the way they are driven, everywhere and without respecting any rule) dangerous and a ban might not be a bad thing, but P
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by jaclaz 3y ago
>Still disagree with how it was decided though. It was through a referendum, with something like 90% votes in favour of banning them: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65154854 Surely it wasn't a popular re
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by jaclaz 3y ago
It seems more a summary of this (linked to): https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/first-p...
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by jaclaz 3y ago
But is it item #1 or #9875?
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by jaclaz 3y ago
Thank you, though now I cannot anymore honestly state that MS did not introduce any new meaningful feature in Windows 10 ;).
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by jaclaz 3y ago
Cannot say if Notepad does it in recent versions, but on older Windows systems Wordpad was useful to quickly open texts made on Linux (with just LF instead of CR+LF) which in Notepad would show as uninterrupted.
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by jaclaz 3y ago
Seemingly it is implementation: >Why did such errors occur? >When the algorithm finds an ideal candidate for a position, it does not reset the list of remaining candidates before commencing the search to fill the next vacancy. Thus, t
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by jaclaz 3y ago
Here in Italy you need to use your Codice Fiscale or Carta d'Identità cards (both official documents) as (debit) cards (pre-paid or connected to some bank account) can be obtained as early as 13 or so (of course authorized by parents).
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by jaclaz 3y ago
>I have seen a lot of articles about Italy's 'dollar homes' which is a symptom of the same problem. If I may, as an Italian, those are symptoms of a different problem, there are a number of (small) villages that are simply
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by jaclaz 3y ago
I understand how it may seem confusing to non Italians but the marble quarry is in Tuscany, in the Apuan Alps[0], which are part of a different mountain range, the Apennine Mountains[1]. It is not in what are usually called Italian Alps [2]
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by jaclaz 3y ago
It seems like you are reasoning to be living one year out of thin air and be able to accumulate in that year 200,000 US$ to be used as the down payment for the 1,000,000 house. Since you cannot live with nothing, it will take you more than

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