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by efournie 2y ago
A few threads in a soft boiled egg with a pinch of salt is also a great and easy way to experience the flavor.
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by efournie 3y ago
...as well as Luc Montagnier with DNA teleportation, homeopathy and COVID.
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by efournie 3y ago
Germany's long distance trains are comfortable but the reliability of the Deutsche Bahn is abysmal. In 2023, more than one third of their long distance train were delayed, a metric that has been going down for quite a while. My own exp
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by efournie 3y ago
They offer different rates based on the previous purchases volume: https://docs.gandi.net/en/billing/price_rates/index.html
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by efournie 5y ago
In my anecdotal experience, arriving at work around 7 or earlier and leaving before 16:00 is absolutely not a problem. Arriving around 10 is also possible for those who prefer starting late. People try to group the important meetings in th
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by efournie 6y ago
Compared to Google, Bing has a huge problem with paid search results, at least in some non english languages. My mother wanted to access Amazon last week and typed "my amazon account" in french in the windows search, which searche
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by efournie 6y ago
Those do not work for everyone. I bought some glasses from this company for my father, both he and a colorblind colleague could not see any improvement apart from a slight contrast increase after a few hours of wearing them. One of them was
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by efournie 7y ago
Computational filtering techniques are difficult for a good reason. In the case of CT, high density objects like metal implants produce beam hardening by preventing the low energy photons from reaching the detector. With adversarial trainin
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by efournie 7y ago
The warmth is caused by the RF pulses and has nothing to do with the magnet or iron levels. Basically the scanner behaves the same as a microwave oven. That's why you have to enter the patient weight and size before scanning, in order
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by efournie 8y ago
I have trouble taking Michael Crichton's stories seriously partly because of his odd obsession with theme parks. In Westworld, androids indistinguishable from humans are used for an amusement park. In Jurassic Park, it's engineeri
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by efournie 9y ago
I worked on pacemaker firmware about 15 years ago. Even back then, this kind a scenario would have been very improbable. To reprogram a pacemaker, you needed first to activate a reed switch with a magnet, then transmit the right commands, p
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by efournie 9y ago
First, given the track record of manufacturers with android security updates, I wouldn't install a bitcoin wallet on my phone. Then, there is the problem with "buy $5 worth of bitcoin". Last time I checked, this was everythin
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by efournie 10y ago
Amazon didn't really shock them into action as the service has been available for quite a few years. They are probably trying to show that Amazon shopping is not that disruptive.
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by efournie 10y ago
It really depends on the controls used for moving. I am quite sensitive too, even slow movements in VR give me nausea when I am not moving. But games that use teleportation for moving like The Lab are absolutely not nausea-inducing for me.
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by efournie 11y ago
Cremating a person with a big lithium battery encased in an airtight metallic casing is also a bit of a hazard. Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators add also a few big capacitors to the mix. There have been quite a few crematoriums destr
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by efournie 13y ago
There is also a nice Unix family tree there: http://www.levenez.com/unix/ As it includes Linux, AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, HURD, OS X and their derivatives, the graph is huge but very interesting!