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Firing clay in a kiln also make it more water resistant, I believe
Posted by
popol12 on Monday September 14, 2026 @03:50PM
from the show-hn dept.
https://tamtamhero.github.io/localwind/
Quite a niche project that shows in a neat way historical wind force and orientation, anywhere on earth.
No particular use case in mind, apart from checking that my next house will not be affected by the Mistral wind (the horrendous wind displayed in the default coordinates of the app).
Based on weather reanalysis of ERA5, ERA5-LAND and ECMWF IFS provided by open-meteo.com
Entirely Vibe coded...
Silicon is already transparent for IR. Visibly that's not enough to cool chips.
Very interesting, could someone please do the same computation for filling 64 bit storage?
Quick, book a cruise to take some picture of them before they're all dead! \s
They released cloud backups recently and I believe they are also working on manual exports on iOS too
What about Chinese, Russian or European oil majors ?
Posted by
popol12 on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @12:17PM
from the newyorker.com dept.
« to bear the cost », not « to bare the cost »
11£ a month is a lot. Any way to try it for free ?
I think you underestimate how much speculation, gambling and crime happens in the fiat ecosystem. The forex, just to name one thing, is $7.5T exchanged a day.
In comparison, it’s estimated that Americans spend about $10T per year. I don’t have the numbers worldwide but America is a big piece of the cake.
So, speculation is vastly higher than regular spending, even for “regular money”.
Why can’t someone do a carbon 14 datation of the shells to close the debate ?
Man, the communist party (and the communist ideology) in France is pretty much dead today. They’re not even that much to the left today. They have no power and their boss has no social credibility outside of its party (see “Fabien Roussel n’est pas un camarade” songs)
Your claim that the judges are red is a popular right wing fantasy
France is ultra left-wing ?
Wow, the Overton window must have shifted to the right even more than I thought.
You sound like you actually don’t know much about France. For instance your accusations about left wing media rooting for Sarkozy has no foundation. The judges being biased toward left is groundless as well. Many left wing politicians have been condemned by French justice.
This is peak techno-solutionism
Open it, remove the battery and put it in a dedicated recycling bin.
I was scared too and found out that it's actually the opposite !
I'm using Manjaro (derived from Arch), so I can't talk for Arch itself but so far (2 years) it's been way more friendly to me than Ubuntu (which I used for 7 years before).
I switched to an Arch based distribution and it's night and day. Almost everything is available through the AUR, you even have the choice to rebuild a package or to use a pre-compiled one. I'll never go back to Ubuntu and apt.
Oh, and it's a rolling release so my install doesn't break every 2 years with the new LTS upgrade.
When was the last time you tried it ?
What do you mean by "a comparable ecosystem of apps" ? Which apps would you miss on a KDE install ?
Posted by
popol12 on Thursday June 26, 2025 @05:43PM
from the community.signalusers.org dept.
What do we see here ? Artillery impacts ?
I recently discovered after years of using this app that it's possible to have the names of the birds in other languages than English, it's an option in the app settings.
Interesting, thanks.
About Dubai, in french it would be pronounced "Du-bay" without the diaresis. It is not ambiguous in english though, but it never occurred to me !
My bad, I should have checked sorry.
You mixed it up, the guy who lost his finger was a well off co-founder of a crypto company but not super duper rich himself, he was however the friend of a super rich of his co-founders. The goal was to extract money from this other person by hurting his friend.
There was however another case with the french familly of a Dubaï expatriated influencer, with a happier ending this time.
After all these years I fail to understand how people seemingly versed in the subject are still spelling Etherium with an "i" instead of an "e". I wonder if all the occurrences of the error are made by people of the same linguistic origin. Out of pure curiosity, I wonder if you could share if you're an English native ? If so, it would rule out this hypothesis. If you are not an English native, would you share your mother tongue with me ? I myself am (an admittedly nosey) French.
I guess the issue is not about taking the medicine once vs twice, but rather « a few times » vs « daily »
Yup, I posted it for this reason.