Karto

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by Karto 4y ago
It didn't freeze the Emacs of the guy writing it :-D 1 point for Emacs !
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by Karto 4y ago
Friends of mine, having romantic dinner on their terrace, had bird shot land into their dinner plates. Bird shot is so small, it's no more deadly than raindrops when it falls back down, but it's a startling seasoning for a nice di
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by Karto 4y ago
That's a beautiful excerpt, thank you. Barnum effect didn't wait for Barnum.
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by Karto 4y ago
It's overall quite true. But I found that the smaller stores, that live in the shadows of a larger one, do still offer the actual bargains. For example, in Emmaüs Tarare, a smaller city 30 min away from Lyon, you still find solid furni
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by Karto 5y ago
This post reminds me of the book : Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness, by David A. Treleaven. It explains how incompetent meditation can awaken and reinforce trauma, while a competently handled meditation can be part of the toolbox to heal it.
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by Karto 5y ago
Nothing unusual. Just an answer to the previous comment, that felt thrown over one's shoulder : a whole continent won't switch its energy sources in a couple of days.
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by Karto 5y ago
It's just about 22h00 here, and -6°C outside the window. Spring has not started...
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by Karto 5y ago
My wrong, I meant the two different non-english-like consonants.
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by Karto 5y ago
French guy here, thanking panick21_ for answering an irritating post with a cool head :D
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by Karto 5y ago
I had a similar experience in spite of not needing any R, living and working in several English speaking countries. My name is Mathias, and the variety of ways English speakers called me was a proper issue, in the sense that I sometimes did
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by Karto 5y ago
This wasn't exactly a FPTP situation. First, the presidential election spans over two rounds. Second, about a month later, the legislative elections (two rounds also) were won too with a proper tsunami (350 out of 577 seats, providing
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by Karto 5y ago
The top line, "Not Left. Not Right. Forward." kind of reminds me of Macron's "En Marche" ("Let's Go") that took over France in a storm, taking over the presidency AND the parliament only one year afte
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by Karto 5y ago
Same here. After, like every little French boy, having been fed with Tintin and Asterix in my baby bottle, much of the more modern work made me feel like the author was not straight to the point enough, wasting my attention with his uncerta
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by Karto 5y ago
Not an overlay, but side by side views are shown, when scrolling down enough, in the French article linked by @thinkingremote : https://www.inrap.fr/la-plus-ancienne-carte-d-europe-15574#
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by Karto 5y ago
This map is impressively detailed and accurate. When you look at a small village-sized area that you know today, you can often recognize the features on the Cassini map (no always though ; many hills were drawn as they appeared from afar, m
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by Karto 6y ago
That makes sense. Then there is still the problem of the cold tarmac, on which summer tyres are said to have poor grip, but that may not be as obvious to the average commuter as a road turned to thick white with two icy ruts to follow. And
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by Karto 6y ago
Many mountainous regions across Europe too, like the French region where I live. Tyres are potentially part of any routine police check. The region is a rather poor one, and many roads are simply not salted at all. With proper winter tyres
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by Karto 6y ago
And if you talk about Germany, there's a whole museum dedicated to those in Bonn. The "Artihmeum". In the city center, by the university. It's huge, fascinating, and I believe I was the only person inside when I visited
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by Karto 6y ago
Come to Europe, masons' ghosts are all over... I used to live cheaply in a simple downtown appartment in a mediterranean city. Year carved in stone : 1724.
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by Karto 6y ago
Or more likely because very young dogs would grow some basic traits of character while influenced by the behavior that their parents exhibit in front of them.
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by Karto 6y ago
Yes, one h is hidden inside m... Ending up with energy = something * h^2 actually makes the relationship show the same face as the one for capacitors, where energy = something * v^2.
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by Karto 6y ago
If I think straight, the initial potential energy in a column of liquid would be the integration of m g h (actually integration of density * g * section * height), therefore m g h/2 at the beginning of the situation. Or said intuitivel
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by Karto 7y ago
And that's what has been going on for a few days inside Europe now. Airlines flying empty or near empty planes to keep their slots. The European Commission was meant to make a move about that, I don't know if that's been done
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by Karto 7y ago
Beside the discussable mortality rate among healthy adults, and beside surving with permanent lung damage, many people who are 30-40 have kids who are 0-10. Things take a whole new dimension there.
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by Karto 7y ago
It might be a stunt, but stuff like that happens. Many years ago I used to work for a large European company that ran a booking system for several hundreds of airlines. The system was used as a back-end by more than one famous online bookin
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by Karto 7y ago
Ticks spread when there are host mammals, nearly regardless of vegetation height. I'm with you on the dead ecosystem thing. Besides the vegetable patch, my garden is deliberately a happy self-regulated mess of grass and wild strawberri
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by Karto 7y ago
I'm a bit out of the subject, but are you telling that in the US you're not free to grow vegetation on your yard however you like ?
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by Karto 7y ago
The battle of Alesia took place several centuries before anyone heard about the Franks. The "us" the OP is referring to, is the Gauls. I won't argue with the essence of your point though, although, for what I know, much of th
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by Karto 7y ago
Reduce a complex equation to only two variables ? But that's no the point : expecting fairness isn't practical anyway. :) I'd bet the practical response will be people stretching their car's lifespans way beyond reasonab
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by Karto 7y ago
6000 Euro tax for a 15000 euro car. I'd call it significant enough and ridiculous enough to be more than mere propaganda. But you're right, the figures I had in the mind were for the Jimny, not the Vitara. Over 10000 tax for a car

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