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by franch 1mo ago
I suggest this one: https://eclipsemap.xyz
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by franch 9mo ago
The relevant comparison is fines vs. actual budget, not fines vs. some cherry-picked industry segment. EU general government spending (across 27 nations) in 2023 was around €8.4 trillion. €3.8B in fines is 0.045% of that, again, completely
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by franch 9mo ago
Italy's unconsolidated budget for 2025 is projected to be around 700 billion euros in revenue and 900 billion in expenditures: https://www.rgs.mef.gov.it/VERSIONE-I/attivita_istituzionali... So yeah, whoever talks
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by franch 1y ago
It has been done. See how the leonardo supercomputer is cooled. Closed circuit water that is passively cooled completely outside the building: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mckX_R0GeRY
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by franch 1y ago
In our Alpine region there is a long tradition of male choruses singing folk songs about mountain life and tales through rich harmonizations of pieces. An example from coro SAT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQZyZggh3SQ
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Italian unicorn Bending Spoons secures over €500M in debt(sifted.eu)
2 points by franch 1y ago|0 comments
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by franch 4y ago
They keep all the marquees because they sell better in the various European national markets, but many models are now the same platform with some small aesthetic changes. For example the new electric citroen berlingo / fiat doblo &#x2F
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by franch 4y ago
The reason for being a Dutch company is purely for a taxation advantage, and it goes back to the fact that FIAT/FCA moved its headquarters to the Netherlands under Marchionne's leadership. Other italian companies (Mediaset owned b
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by franch 4y ago
The original mother company of Fiat/FCA (Exor, controlled by the Agnelli family) now merged in Stellantis, also own stakes in Ferrari, CNH Industrial (New Holland Tractors, Case and other industrial and farming equipements), Iveco and
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Gdal3.js – Gdal Compiled to JavaScript(github.com)
2 points by franch 4y ago|0 comments
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by franch 4y ago
I'm using it for a small project and it works fine. Self hosting is documented here: https://develop.sentry.dev/self-hosted/ Upgrading is a little bit tricky: in my (limited) experience the upgrading procedure fo
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by franch 5y ago
Not all stone houses are castles or luxury residences. My family's house (northern Italy in the Alps) is at least 600 years old (there is a painting on the outside that has been dated to around 1420) but it is a working-class home. The
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by franch 7y ago
Also, physics-based models (Numerical weather predictions NWP) assimilate much more data than just the last few radars scan. The assimilation phase takes a couple of hours, but when the physics kicks in, the NWP models win hands down.
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by franch 7y ago
I chime in on this because I'm working on deep learning for precipitation nowcasting using radar for my Ph.D. I was very excited when google released the press statement at NeurIPS about their work in this area. Unfortunately, after re
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by franch 7y ago
> So, no, it wasn't rejected by "the population" (a term that it was always be inaccurate[1]). It was rejected by a minority. And the treaty being one that requires unanimous approval, failed because of that. Uhm sorry no.
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by franch 7y ago
> The aim is to have a federal union in Europe. In a way, going straight to monetary union is to 'force' further political union because they know full well that it requires it in order to work. Sorry, but I disagree. There is
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by franch 7y ago
As a European temporarily living in the US I am truly shocked by the amount of plastic used in packaging here. Moreover, the number of plastic bags that it's used in supermarkets is also shocking. Where I come from (Italy) we banned pl
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by franch 7y ago
It's not just an anecdata: http://cellularinsights.com/iphone7/ This story has been going on for years. Apple wanted to find a second supplier for the modems. They asked Intel but they underdelivered constantly. E
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by franch 7y ago
No coincidence at all: (2017) https://semiaccurate.com/2017/11/06/qualcomm-opens-apple-leg... (2019) https://semiaccurate.com/2019/04/16/qualcomm-just-beat-apple...
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by franch 7y ago
Charlie from semiaccurate has been following the story for a while: (2017) https://semiaccurate.com/2017/11/06/qualcomm-opens-apple-leg... (2019) https://semiaccurate.com/2019/04/16&
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by franch 8y ago
As an Italian I don't want that article changed for ANY reason. The possibility to exploit any conditionality in art.34 both as an excuse to avoid mandatory education and for privatization of the public school system is really too high
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by franch 8y ago
If make it less so means reducing personal freedom to the point of regulating how much time a grandmother can take care of it's grandchildren, I really strongly disagree with that vision.
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by franch 10y ago
Also, a very nice tutorial for Keras: https://github.com/leriomaggio/deep-learning-keras-euroscipy...
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by franch 11y ago
This kind of tech has been around for about a year... http://semiaccurate.com/2014/06/30/pretec-takes-step-flash-c...
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by franch 11y ago
I use DBSchema for ER diagrams, works well. http://www.dbschema.com/screenshots.html
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Postgresql 9.4 stable committed(git.postgresql.org)
2 points by franch 12y ago|0 comments