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I suggest this one: https://eclipsemap.xyz

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 tr…

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_istitu…

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_…

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: ht…

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 examp…

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 lea…

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 an…

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) exper…

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 da…

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 whe…

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…

> 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 appro…

> 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 …

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 i…

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 …

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...

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/2019/04/1…

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 priva…

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 …

Also, a very nice tutorial for Keras: https://github.com/leriomaggio/deep-learning-keras-euroscipy...

This kind of tech has been around for about a year... http://semiaccurate.com/2014/06/30/pretec-takes-step-flash-c...