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Mine is anecdotal evidence at best: I co-authored a fairly obscure book about the application of category theory to an extremely niche subject. There's basically no mention of the …

If I remember correctly, there was this hypothesis that these things were covered by symbiotic algae so the idea is that they grew tall to increase the photosynthesis of their symb…

Looking at this picture [1] of Bologna’s skyline from the sixties it seems it could be pretty realistic. The skyline has changed drastically and now you have many more tall buildin…

Try with cargo pants. After three or four iterations the pants disappeared and were substituted by something that can only be described as an andrologist fever dream.

Nope, no more AI in Italy, at least that's what our government decided. And no more English too.

If I’m not mistaken RFC 4180 says that quotes should be escaped by prepending them with another quote, so “” and not \” (these are not double quotes but my phone won’t let me type …

Actually it’s made in Parma, Reggio Emilia, Modena, part of Bologna and part of Mantua.

Nah, there are a bajillion ways of making pizza in Italy, it’s just that the thick and soft one is never round, but even the round one can be thicker or thinner depending on the lo…

It’s still debated if that is the correct etymology. A different hypothesis has “penguin” deriving from the Latin “pinguis” (fat).

Blueberries are actually quite common in the Mediterranean area, but you are right about salmon.

It seems the patent has been discontinued: https://patents.google.com/patent/US6853964B1/en