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by piquadrat 7y ago
There is a solar version of the Fenix 6 (the slightly less ridiculously priced sportswatch brother of the MARQ series), and according to most reviews, it barely makes a dent on battery life. I wouldn't hold my breath for self-sufficien
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by piquadrat 7y ago
> Switzerland is not famous for futuristic factory cities and impressive government projects. The Gotthard Base Tunnel would like to have a word ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotthard_Base_Tunnel It might not be
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by piquadrat 7y ago
Also, pros crash differently than your typical bike commuter or recreational cyclist. For one, there's a large difference in speed (45+ kph for pros, half of that or less for your typical commuter - somewhat negated by the e-bike boom)
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by piquadrat 7y ago
What's ironic in this whole situation is that Strava themselves are extremely dependent on a 3rd party API: workouts from Garmin. I don't think there are public numbers on the percentage of total workout data comes from Garmin, bu
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by piquadrat 8y ago
> Have you actually used Flask, by the way? Or the older version of it called Pyramid? Flask is in no way related to Pyramid. It came out of an April Fools joke in 2010 ( http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2010/4/3/apr
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by piquadrat 8y ago
> Same when two pilots give different instructions. That's only true for Airbus (and probably contributed to the loss of Air France 447, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447 ). In Boeing airplane
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by piquadrat 8y ago
> Two-factor authorization has a specific meaning: ... Well that was the worst place the author could have mixed up authorization and authentication... In fact, he seems to use authorization and authentication pretty much interchangeabl
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by piquadrat 8y ago
Bandwurmwort ( https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/Bandwurmwort ) "tapeworm word" in English. Basically, they are compound words.
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by piquadrat 8y ago
Fun fact, there were serious plans in the 1950ies to build a nuclear power plant right in Zurich, primarily as district heating for ETH Zurich. https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/bitstream/handle/20.... (pa
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by piquadrat 8y ago
Hydro plants (specifically, dams) can be very disruptive to the local environment. You're flooding entire valleys. They can also pose a substantial danger in the case of failure, see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by piquadrat 8y ago
If you are ever in the Engadin valley, I can recommend the Morteratsch Glacier trail. There are signs along the trail to indicate the historic positions of the glacier. It's incredibly impressive how much the glacier retreated over the
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by piquadrat 8y ago
Revolut also have disposable cards that are valid for only one transaction.
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by piquadrat 8y ago
well in this case I assume that my frequent searches for Docker (the technology) led Google News astray :)
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by piquadrat 8y ago
Google News for the longest time kept showing me updates for the Fremantle Dockers, an Australian football team (I'm Swiss, and never set foot on Australian soil). I wonder why...
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by piquadrat 8y ago
> In his book Antifragile, Nassim Nicholas Taleb mentions how Roman engineers had to spend some time under the bridges they built – to ensure they did a good job. This is a myth, and AFAICT, there is no proof of this being an occurrence
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by piquadrat 8y ago
Is it me or does that article not even try to fact check Trumps assertion that wind mills are killing fields for birds? What a piss poor try at "journalism". https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/gre
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by piquadrat 8y ago
There's an event loop implementation for Python based on libuv: https://github.com/MagicStack/uvloop It's compatible with the native asyncio event loop and can be used as a drop-in replacement.
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by piquadrat 8y ago
The newly released Edge 520 Plus builds a bit on that, as it comes with maps for your region pre-loaded (region as in e.g. Europe, or US). This allows it to do point-to-point routing on the fly, as well as rerouting if you miss a turn. I bo
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by piquadrat 8y ago
90% of the time they are spot on. But watch a few historically accurate videos on WWII and it'll start recommending videos from Holocaust deniers. Or watch some moon landing documentaries and you'll start getting videos peddling m
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by piquadrat 8y ago
Just a few days ago, AWS announced[1] that they will be contributing TLS to Redis, and judging by one of his comments[2], antirez doesn't seem to be completely against merging it. According to a comment on Reddit[3], Josiah wasn't
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by piquadrat 8y ago
Not messaging apps, but the government in Switzerland of all places recently introduced a law to block online casinos that don't operate under a Swiss license. The only reason that it hasn't gone into effect yet is because enough
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by piquadrat 9y ago
To everyone involved in getting this over the finish line: awesome work! I've been using pypi.org for a few months now, and it's such a huge step forward from the old PyPI.
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by piquadrat 9y ago
Flamingo is fantastic, but just got discontinued due to hitting the infamous token limit. It's infuriating. https://www.androidcentral.com/flamingo-one-best-twitter-cli...
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by piquadrat 9y ago
You should probably mention that at the top of your blog post. bipson is probably not the only one coming to this (apparently) wrong conclusion based on your current hoster.
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by piquadrat 9y ago
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A380#Production_and_del... , production in 2018 will be at 12 per year, so this would add 2-3 years (if the optioned 16 will also be produced).
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by piquadrat 9y ago
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_(name) : > pronounced "BEH-awe-t"
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by piquadrat 9y ago
Beat is a _very_ common name in Switzerland. I know about 10, none of them work in music :)
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by piquadrat 9y ago
@ASmallFiction had a beautiful, succinct take on this recently: "Are we alone in the universe?" she asked. "Yes," said the Oracle. "So there's no other life out there?" "There is. They're alone t
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by piquadrat 9y ago
Interesting, I was wondering why the Rhaetian Railway was completely missing. Turns out it's tagged as "narrow gauge" railway[1], which doesn't seem to get picked up by OpenRailwayMap. [1] http://wiki.openstre
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by piquadrat 9y ago
According to their README[1], supervisor does not yet work correctly on Python 3 and has a list of issues [2]. [1] https://github.com/Supervisor/supervisor/blob/master/README.... [2] https://g

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