largolagrande

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by largolagrande 3mo ago
There is an experimental documentary about the CLODO available here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGVMu5OPu7E
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Clodo (Not Claudo)(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by largolagrande 3mo ago|1 comments
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by largolagrande 8mo ago
I did exactly the same. So many good laughs !!! :))
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by largolagrande 1y ago
HAHA. Very smart. The more you review the Copilot Agent's PRs, the better is gets at submitting new PRs... (basics of supervised machine learning, right?)
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by largolagrande 3y ago
The whole podcast series is a gem. One of my favourite podcast of all time ! Highly recommended : https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/2012/06/25/episode-2-the...
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by largolagrande 3y ago
(Former Microsoft employee speaking :) Windows has become ---let's face it--- a kind of malware. The various tricks they use to force you to use Edge & Bing are deplorable. I almost only use Ubuntu now, which is much, much, much fa
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by largolagrande 3y ago
For podcasts downloads, I highly recommend Greg ( https://github.com/manolomartinez/greg )
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by largolagrande 4y ago
Concerning the public key cryptography for the exchange of private encrypted messages, I would have rather represented the shared public keys by padlocks, and the private key by the key allowing to open the padlocks. This way, it is easier
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by largolagrande 4y ago
Hydrogen peroxide as not a developer for the cyanotype process. There is indeed no developer involved in the cyanotype process.Hydrogen peroxide just speeds up oxidation.
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by largolagrande 4y ago
Thanks, I didn't know that. From "Electrochemical synthesis of ammonia as a potential alternative to the Haber–Bosch process" (2019) : Water electrolysis, combined with an improved smallerscale Haber–Bosch process, seems to b
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by largolagrande 4y ago
[A sidenote about investing in nuclear plants, with the example of the UK] The United Kingdom is an interesting example of a country which is very interested in having nuclear power and which has less and less of it at the moment because of
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by largolagrande 4y ago
You need hydrogen to synthesize ammonia.
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by largolagrande 4y ago
Not workable. Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe and is found in great abundance in all galaxies. It is particularly present in the Sun, which is problematic because it is not very accessible to us :) On Earth, there is a
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by largolagrande 5y ago
This video course by Mr Jancovici at l'Ecole des Mines in 2019 is just brilliant. But a bit depressing as well, I had to stop after 90 minutes... :)
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by largolagrande 5y ago
(french guy speaking) Fun fact, I just saw yesterday evening at the theatres an ad by EDF (the French multinational electric utility company, largely owned by the French state, and the only operator of all the nuclear plants in France) to p
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by largolagrande 6y ago
Thanks! You just made my day ;)
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by largolagrande 6y ago
I recommend that you watch the "Planet of The Humans" documentary to understand why there is no cheap or green energy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk11vI-7czE
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by largolagrande 6y ago
> A lot of cheap solar energy, from the best location. I recommend that you watch the "Planet of the Humans" documentary to understand why there is no cheap solar energy, no so-called "green" energies: https:/&#
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by largolagrande 6y ago
Since we have been living in a global economy for quite some time now, shouldn't we actually _pay_ Brazil to preserve its forest, a resource that the whole humanity/planet benefits from?
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by largolagrande 7y ago
Or take palladium for instance, which price almost doubled over last year. Its price has plummeted 43% in 18 days! In normal times, the demand for palladium (automotive catalytic converters) far exceeds the supply. Wait another week or two
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by largolagrande 7y ago
Doesn't this crash highlight a fundamental problem with stock markets ? NASDAQ: -25% in one month. CAC40 (french stock market index) : -33% over the same period. These stock markets collapsing is just stupid, it just shows that it&#x27
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by largolagrande 7y ago
If you like comics and CS (because often nothing beats a good drawing): - Excellent ebooks by Julia Evans: https://wizardzines.com/ (Twitter account https://twitter.com/b0rk ) - (just about DNS): https:&#x
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by largolagrande 7y ago
I really like the comparison of TD with the Tetris game : "You can’t win. You can only control how quickly you lose" Already posted on HN here : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19353352
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by largolagrande 7y ago
You might be interested by this video about the challenges faced by conservation scientists with Rothko murals : https://vimeo.com/111469325