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Re:Radiation link in flight attendant's breast cancer, French court finds
on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @01:00PM (#49452355)
Up until 2004 you had to book a non-smoking rail-car in France. I remember having to book a seat in the smoking section because the non-smoking cars were full. Smoking was only being phased-out in high-school yards (for 15-18 yo highschoolers not only the staff)
Re:Hanoi's humble beer glass and the memory of a nation
on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @06:19AM (#48205513)
The glasses remind me of Duralex Picardie glasses which are also a classic in France. The tall 36cl and 58cl versions look very similar.
Re:Emerich Juettner: The One Dollar Counterfeiter
on Sunday May 10, 2026 @05:46AM (#48082430)
It reminds me of Bojarski
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceslaw_Bojarski
The 2025 movie is worth watching https://www.imdb.com/title/tt35495035/
Re:Heat pump sales rise across Europe
on Monday May 04, 2026 @11:45PM (#48017826)
It goes by license plate codes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_vehicle_registra...
It makes for a fun acronym DACH meaning roof in german. If they used Ö why not DÖS with an S for Schweiz then ?
Re:Is my blue your blue?
on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @02:10AM (#47944724)
This is largely cultural and language sensitive. I took the test as a french native speaker and got a green-blue boundary greener than the average population with the commentary "For you, turquoise is blue". Indeed it is. It is called bleu turquoise in french.
Re:M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan
on Monday April 20, 2026 @08:43AM (#47833469)
It is not. It's the moment magnitude scale
Re:DIY Soft Drinks
on Monday April 13, 2026 @02:52PM (#47756351)
Ochre is from a type of clay
Re:De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance?
on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @12:01AM (#46701331)
It's easier to cancel elections during à conflict
Re:Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?
on Thursday January 15, 2026 @08:02AM (#46631824)
Both likely come from (middle) dutch bakboord (the side of your back) facing the stierboord (the side with the steering oar) . Stierboord became estribord then tribord. Its more explicit in modern german and dutch.
Re:A new Little Prince museum has opened its doors in Switzerland
on Sunday November 30, 2025 @03:05AM (#46094786)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_literary_works_by_numb...
This is the second most translated book after the Bible
Re:Japan has opened its first osmotic power plant –what is it and how ...
on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @08:08AM (#45038544)
Yes the brine could just be diluted wih gray water to reduce the environnemental impact without the energy recovery of the osmotic plant and the capital can be invested in other renewable with better efficiency.
That being said it's a first so it's a pilot project needed to have feedback on a real plant in operation and not just back of the enveloppe calculations and suppositions. Sometime you need to just build the thing to encounter problems, issues or non-issues.
Re:You can't grow cool-climate plants in hot climates
on Sunday August 24, 2025 @12:30PM (#45005549)
Pine tree suffer from other parasites and notably sphaeropsis fungus
Re:Gouach wants you to insert and pluck the cells from its Infinite e-...
on Thursday August 21, 2025 @02:28AM (#44969669)
25000km is 250 100km days per year. That's a lot.
In France for example the average yearly distance travelled by car is closer to 12000km not 25000. More achievable but still a lot.
Re:Million Times Million
on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @10:45PM (#44516706)
Exactly how it's called in french
Re:Endometriosis is an incredibly interesting disease
on Saturday June 14, 2025 @08:55AM (#44276163)
Heard this in France too from MD. Link between drinking too hot (over 60°C) and oesophagus cancer
Re:My quest to make motorcycle riding that tad bit safer
on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @01:09PM (#43918224)
Busch und Müller has some products with brake lights
https://www.bumm.de/en/products/dynamo-rucklichter/produkt/3...?
https://www.bumm.de/en/products/e-bike-r%C3%BCcklichter/pare...?
Re:Take the Pedals Off the Bike
on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @06:01PM (#42718417)
Half the children seem to have one in France. My neighbourhood is full of them. Draisiennes/laufräder/balancebikes are a real transportation means as children go every single day to the crèche on them. Some Kids that do this know how to ride and can learn to ride a real bike before 3. You then have to find one small enough
Re:Norms-Based Intellectual Property Systems: The Case of French Chefs...
on Sunday January 12, 2025 @04:59PM (#42677377)
Yes: About->view pdf
(On mobile)
Re:Combining 15s interval whole-sky-camera photos to form a 4y spannin...
on Saturday January 04, 2025 @04:24PM (#42597782)
Have you got a link or do you remember the name of this person?
Re:Is My Blue Your Blue?
on Monday September 02, 2024 @10:24PM (#41430670)
It can be cultural. Turquoise is often called bleu turquoise in french. So it's more of a blue to me.
Re:Is My Blue Your Blue?
on Monday September 02, 2024 @10:21PM (#41430646)
It's orange in french
Re:Panic at the Job Market
on Thursday July 18, 2024 @03:10AM (#40993204)
Openings/needs can be shared and relayed through networks before being listed publicly. You can also made yourself know as a potential hire before the need arises or before it is fully validated/budgeted and getter recontacted on Day 1.
Re:Show HN: Tool to calculate how much milk is needed to make an amoun...
on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @05:02AM (#38938418)
Most hard pressed cheeses (think comté, beaufort, gruyère, gouda) are around 10L/kg, Parmigiano reggiano is more like 15L/kg, so I think the app underestimate it, unless by Parmesan you mean not the real deal
Obviously dryer cheeses are more dense and require more milk per kg as they age
The cheese choice is severly lacking :) The milk type choice is nice, as Cow's milk contains more water compared to goat or sheep's
Re:In Europe, Trains Are Full, and More Are on the Way
on Saturday January 06, 2024 @09:42AM (#38891784)
Regional airports are usually subsidized by local governments to put them on the map.
Also jet fuel could be taxes at à similar rate as gas/diesel
Re:Roar of cicadas was so loud, it was picked up by fiber-optic cables
on Sunday December 03, 2023 @09:08AM (#38507178)
I know of several compagnies in europe that do geophysical monitoring of dikes levees and dams with optical fibers
Re:Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Agostini, Krausz, and L’Huillier
on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @03:20PM (#37756288)
Understood it that way in french too.
Re:111,111.1 meters is reliably 1 degree of latitude
on Sunday August 27, 2023 @10:46PM (#37289111)
This is commonly used in Italy modified in the form "etto"
Re:The precursory phase of large earthquakes
on Friday July 21, 2023 @10:04AM (#36813896)
Yes,
Surges of cosmic radiation from space directly linked to earthquakes
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36358672
Re:Gandi.net – Pricing Update
on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @12:08PM (#36328051)
Free is a marketing gimmick. It was never free but included in the domain package = domain registration + dns hosting + email boxes. The domain prices were generally higher than some concurrents. Now all of a sudden the domains see a price hike of 20-40% and each basic mail box that was included costs 57€ VAT included. So if you use the mail box this is essentially x3 or worse on the price. God forbid you used two mailboxes.
Re:Gandi kills free email service effective 30.11.2023
on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @04:23AM (#36323051)
the cost is at the end of the new price list after the domains.
Prix mensuel de la nouvelle offre mailbox / new mailbox offer montly prices
HT/VAT excl
premium 5,99 € / $5.99
respectively 4,79€ and 7,19€ TTC/VAT incl.
It's insane. So with 2 mails boxes, that were not free but included in the price/package of the domain. I will have to pay 2121.2*3.99=115€/year for a basic e-mail service that was included until now. It feels like a breach of contract.
https://www.gandi.net/static/documents/2023-july-eur-renew-p... https://www.gandi.net/static/documents/2023-july-usd-renew-p...