xavieralexandre

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by xavieralexandre 7y ago
My favorite blankets ends are the one which ends up as a 30cm funnel you can tuck under the mattress.
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by xavieralexandre 7y ago
Quality of air in established modern cities has been vastly improving in the last decades [1] and is subjected to much scrutiny nowadays. I doubt many cities ever had a comparable effect to smoking 10 cigarettes a day. [1] https:/&#x2
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by xavieralexandre 7y ago
For a clean chain you can switch from a conventional lube to wax based lube. It’s a relatively involved process (You need to degrease your chain before application) but it keeps the chain relatively dry and clean. (Plus it’s slightly better
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by xavieralexandre 7y ago
The efficiency of photovoltaic tends to decrease with heat above 25°C. Storing energy is expensive.
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by xavieralexandre 7y ago
The 'franca' of Lingua Franca do indeed refer to the same 'Francs' who gave their name to France and the French language. But as stated in the Wikipedia Article the Lingua Franca language used in the Ottoman Empire didn&
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by xavieralexandre 7y ago
Not aware of such a law but there's a related European IOT project: http://big-iot.eu BIG IoT is a European project to enable IoT Ecosystems. With our technologies, we enable cross- standard, cross-platform, and cross-doma
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by xavieralexandre 7y ago
> collate shipments from multiple senders to a single recipient (like we used to do...) Sounds interesting. What was this thing and the use cases?
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by xavieralexandre 8y ago
Best part of car trains in Switzerland is freeing the mountain passes from cars. Still a lot of cars and motorbikes enjoying hairpin turns and landscapes (Good for them!) but still way less traffic than otherwise.
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by xavieralexandre 8y ago
The spinning disc drive is SATA and non proprietary ( https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iMac+Intel+27-Inch+EMC+2546+Bla... ). The SSD is not and use a proprietary PCI-e connector ( https://www.ifixit.com/Guide&
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by xavieralexandre 8y ago
I boot off a Nvme SSD in an usb-c ( https://www.delock.com/produkte/S_42600/merkmale.html ) enclosure on my 2017 27" iMac. I do manage 1000 MB/s. Popping off the screen and using the right adapter and SSD
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by xavieralexandre 8y ago
Getting max performance is not that obvious. You'll want to go through the the PCIe port and find a M2 NVME/PCIe Mac adapter.
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by xavieralexandre 8y ago
Already were: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201191
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by xavieralexandre 8y ago
> Tuning up a piano from zero is a lot harder than it seems. As the tension on the cast iron frame increases it deforms a bit, enough to de-tune everything you've done up to that point. So the only way to get this done is to tune th
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by xavieralexandre 8y ago
It's expensive and coloured instead of totally transparent but it indeed exists outside of the lab. They did build a wall out of them in my former campus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dye-sensitized_solar_cell h
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by xavieralexandre 9y ago
Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des Sciences Tome XI, p.789 (16 novembre 1840) Found in Oeuvres complètes d'Augustin Cauchy 1ère série Tome V III. Notes et articles extraits des comptes rendus hebdomadaires
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Chinese government plans to launch its Social Credit System in 2020(wired.co.uk)
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by xavieralexandre 11y ago
VRZ 1. a tack bike frame with 3d printed lugs https://vimeo.com/34293503
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by xavieralexandre 14y ago
There's one advantage to this way of scrolling most comments seem to miss: When you go to the next page by hitting Space or Page Down there's an interruption in the flow and you have to refocus at the top of the page once you're finished wi
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by xavieralexandre 15y ago
http://developer.runkeeper.com/healthgraph/introducing-the-h...