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New comment by azepoi in "Hanoi’s humble beer glass and the memory of a nation"

azepoi — Wed, 20 May 2026 10:19:32 +0000

The glasses remind me of Duralex Picardie glasses which are also a classic in France. The tall 36cl and 58cl versions look very similar.

New comment by azepoi in "The One Dollar Counterfeiter"

azepoi — Sun, 10 May 2026 09:46:49 +0000

It reminds me of Bojarski https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceslaw_Bojarski

The 2025 movie is worth watching https://www.imdb.com/title/tt35495035/

New comment by azepoi in "Heat pump sales rise across Europe"

azepoi — Tue, 05 May 2026 03:45:56 +0000

It goes by license plate codes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_vehicle_registra...

It makes for a fun acronym DACH meaning roof in german. If they used Ö why not DÖS with an S for Schweiz then ?

New comment by azepoi in "Is my blue your blue? (2024)"

azepoi — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 06:10:22 +0000

This is largely cultural and language sensitive. I took the test as a french native speaker and got a green-blue boundary greener than the average population with the commentary "For you, turquoise is blue". Indeed it is. It is called bleu turquoise in french.

New comment by azepoi in "M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan"

azepoi — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:43:44 +0000

It is not. It's the moment magnitude scale

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moment_magnitude_scale

New comment by azepoi in "DIY Soft Drinks"

azepoi — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:52:12 +0000

Ochre is from a type of clay

New comment by azepoi in "De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)"

azepoi — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 05:01:15 +0000

It's easier to cancel elections during à conflict

New comment by azepoi in "Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?"

azepoi — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 13:02:20 +0000

Both likely come from (middle) dutch bakboord (the side of your back) facing the stierboord (the side with the steering oar) . Stierboord became estribord then tribord. Its more explicit in modern german and dutch.

New comment by azepoi in "A new Little Prince museum has opened its doors in Switzerland"

azepoi — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 08:05:07 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_literary_works_by_numb...

This is the second most translated book after the Bible

New comment by azepoi in "Japan has opened its first osmotic power plant"

azepoi — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 12:08:27 +0000

Yes the brine could just be diluted wih gray water to reduce the environnemental impact without the energy recovery of the osmotic plant and the capital can be invested in other renewable with better efficiency.

That being said it's a first so it's a pilot project needed to have feedback on a real plant in operation and not just back of the enveloppe calculations and suppositions. Sometime you need to just build the thing to encounter problems, issues or non-issues.

New comment by azepoi in "Why you can’t grow cool-climate plants in hot climates"

azepoi — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 16:30:33 +0000

Pine tree suffer from other parasites and notably sphaeropsis fungus

New comment by azepoi in "French firm Gouach is pitching an Infinite Battery with replaceable cells"

azepoi — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 06:28:14 +0000

25000km is 250 100km days per year. That's a lot.

In France for example the average yearly distance travelled by car is closer to 12000km not 25000. More achievable but still a lot.

New comment by azepoi in "Million Times Million"

azepoi — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 02:45:28 +0000

Exactly how it's called in french

New comment by azepoi in "Endometriosis is an interesting disease"

azepoi — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 12:55:55 +0000

Heard this in France too from MD. Link between drinking too hot (over 60°C) and oesophagus cancer

New comment by azepoi in "My quest to make motorcycle riding that tad bit safer"

azepoi — Wed, 07 May 2025 17:09:42 +0000

Busch und Müller has some products with brake lights

https://www.bumm.de/en/products/dynamo-rucklichter/produkt/3...?

https://www.bumm.de/en/products/e-bike-r%C3%BCcklichter/pare...?

New comment by azepoi in "Take the pedals off the bike"

azepoi — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 23:01:43 +0000

Half the children seem to have one in France. My neighbourhood is full of them. Draisiennes/laufräder/balancebikes are a real transportation means as children go every single day to the crèche on them. Some Kids that do this know how to ride and can learn to ride a real bike before 3. You then have to find one small enough

New comment by azepoi in "Norms-Based Intellectual Property Systems: The Case of French Chefs(2008)"

azepoi — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 21:59:58 +0000

Yes: About->view pdf

(On mobile)

New comment by azepoi in "Combining 15s interval whole-sky-camera photos to form a 4y spanning keogram"

azepoi — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 21:24:21 +0000

Have you got a link or do you remember the name of this person?

New comment by azepoi in "Is My Blue Your Blue?"

azepoi — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 02:24:32 +0000

It can be cultural. Turquoise is often called bleu turquoise in french. So it's more of a blue to me.

New comment by azepoi in "Is My Blue Your Blue?"

azepoi — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 02:21:13 +0000

It's orange in french