Garfgon

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by Garfgon 8y ago
And the US system is one of the main reasons there's resistance to loosening single-payer in Canada. Wait times for MRIs (and other procedures) depends on need -- low priority cases will get bumped for more immediate issues. Psychiat
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by Garfgon 9y ago
If your employer has an RRSP matching plan, any matched contributions (both your contribution and the employer matching funds) are generally tied to a specific provider with limited options, relatively high fees, etc. But any separate contr
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by Garfgon 9y ago
Could you use debug information for this? I think the stack frame layout should already be included there.
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by Garfgon 9y ago
Apparently it scales with the fourth power of axle weight ( http://www.nvfnorden.org/lisalib/getfile.aspx?itemid=601 ), roughly.
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by Garfgon 9y ago
When I did avalanche safety training, we were told your chance of surviving an avalanche with (shovel/probe/beacon) is about 50% overall. Roughly 25% of people are killed in the avalanche (before it stops). If you survive the
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by Garfgon 9y ago
With the square root of the length.
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by Garfgon 9y ago
If there's no APM limit you can do things like micro every worker's resource gathering. See http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/brood-war/484849-improving-m... .
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by Garfgon 9y ago
I'm partial to Upper and Lower Slaughter myself.
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by Garfgon 9y ago
Contents may have been unimportant. Apparently books could be ordered by the yard for decorating manor libraries.
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by Garfgon 9y ago
Yes. Youtube tries (tried?) to autocaption videos, and the results were infamously bad.
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by Garfgon 9y ago
That's the same thing they said about web companies in the mid 90s.
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by Garfgon 9y ago
I believe in some cases a licensee also has standing to sue over copyright; e.g. if the licensee is granted an exclusive license.
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by Garfgon 9y ago
Generally people would rather live in a city, so companies offer higher pay and possibly other benefits like 2 weeks on/2 weeks off.
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by Garfgon 9y ago
Per Wikipedia the different New Testament texts have a 99.5% accuracy with each other, and the oldest existing manuscripts were written ~200 years after the original: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textual_criticism_of
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by Garfgon 9y ago
I think it's backward compatibility, not speed. Functions with no arguments lists were supported in C89, so changing it now will break someone's code somewhere. In fact not specifying a parameter list may make your code slower, a
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by Garfgon 9y ago
Which is one thing if your product is on a yearly (or quicker) release cycle. But it's a whole different level of pain if the project is in maintenance mode and the development team has already been reassigned to other projects.