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Those are tetrapods. In Portugal we only use tetrapods, Antifer blocks and rock slabs if avaiable with the right size and density. The weight of the blocks is a function of the des…

Finnally something I have knowledge of. Dolosse were invent in South Africa many years ago, but they are only one type of concrete block for wave dissipation and protection. Many o…

No, RGPD only applies to EU citizens even if they are abroad or if they are using services not based in the EU.

Great site! nevertheless, I believe your soilurce of news from Portugal is more of tourism promoting website. Forgive me but i need to make just two suggestions: Publish your list …

They are not gravitational waves but are gravity waves https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_wave

You make it sound like the National Data Protection Commission warnings of it being unconstitutional a minor thing.... If you read the commission comments on the law you will see s…

I have a couple a friends that own a pine cone processing plant in Portugal. Yes harvesting pine cones is labor intensive and the end product expensive but I think one of the main …

GPDR is essentially some guidelines published by OCDE in 1980 turned into law. So yes we should already be operating like that from the start. I get the feeling that to some countr…

Cooperation between cities and cartel is no illegal. Cities were caught in a prisoner dilema and forgot to cooperate.

Has a huge fan of the tiddlywiki project this is a welcome feature .

Actually timber has a nice property of loosing strength gradually and slowly in case of fire, giving time for people to escape. Steel and concrete reinforced structures tend to col…

This reminds me of a cool thought that I've read some place else: "imagine a technology so advanced that can transmit thoughts wirelessly between humans and even change the actual …

Yes please.

It is reasonable but it's kinda against an EU directive. The problem was that it was shown that the means to unlock drm were not being provided to authorities thus were not availab…

I can't upvote your comment enough and I would add geology to that list.

I'm a fan of Elon but I think geology will hit him in the face.

Well..AWSY started a few years ago and many things happend to firefox since then. I cannot tell you exactly what increase corresponds to a memory measurment improvement but i can p…

You are misreading given that there were big improvements in memory measurment and some of the memory use increase you notice are just firefox measuring better it's own memory

I was refering to alkali-silica reactions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkali%E2%80%93silica_reaction...

This article is full of FUD. What is the alternative? All these reinforced concrete problems are well understood and studied. if proper construction and design codes and maintenanc…

Just so you can improve your knowledge, Portugal as geo-thermal power plants in Azores.

You are underestimating the complexity of water and land mass interactions.

Gravity is not the same around the Globe, there is something called the Geoid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoid . Also, sea level is determined by a number of factors including a…

CFD is improving at great speed, along with the increase of computer power, but isn't yet in the level required to replace all scale model tests and they can still be very computer…

areweslimyet is a tool mainly used to prevent regressions during development and shouldn't be interpreted the way you do. There are many memory usage improvements made in firefox t…