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by acveilleux 10y ago
The supercomputer Cray/SGI business was the only surviving bit and basically DoD and other TLAs are the only buyers. I suspect it's mostly the Cray networking topologies (T3D/T3E double-taurus with 2048+ cpus) that kept them
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by acveilleux 10y ago
Maybe they ran out of sufficient advertisers with low enough morals to advertise on their site? Torrent sites are full of the worse ads and abusive javascript.
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by acveilleux 10y ago
Yes.
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by acveilleux 10y ago
They don't insure the value of the mortgage, they insure the shortfall between what the lender recoup in foreclosure vs. the outstanding loan balance.
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by acveilleux 10y ago
It's hard to define "no resident" and to effectively verify. People would just hire someone or ask a relative to sign a lease and officially be "the resident" without actually having anyone live in the unit.
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by acveilleux 10y ago
It's very hard to formulate a clear and easily enforced rule that restricts complexity. No large function is one way to do it. Really long functions that have very low complexity (very few nested control structures, ideally none) and d
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by acveilleux 10y ago
If you need to provision things automatically, you need to jump through hoops to bypass going through that website. For licensing reason the Oracle JDK/JVM cannot be distributed by O/S vendors.
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by acveilleux 10y ago
Can be a problem if you don't have a US billing address or if your VPN gets banned, depending on exactly which service's DRM/geo-locking you're trying to circumvent.
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by acveilleux 10y ago
The methods I am familiar with, mostly dealing with volumetric measurements, registration, and automated segmentation were either robust or had well characterized limitations. I take some offense to blanketing the entire field of MRI based
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by acveilleux 10y ago
Back when I was involved in MRI research, multiple comparisons correction was the rock that many a paper in the field crashed upon. Neuro psych. suffers from weak stats, which is a far cry from saying either fMRI itself is meaningless or sa
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by acveilleux 10y ago
That's actually the same article on two sites. Itself just a layman's piece on an actual article in Nature Neuroscience.
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by acveilleux 10y ago
There's a fair bit of junky data and quite a few analysis methods that cannot compare data accurately between magnets, position wrt isocentre, or even processing software revisions. But your claim is a lot bolder than that.
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by acveilleux 10y ago
fMRI papers tend to be written by neuro-psychologists or similar folks. Not engineers, statisticians, or physicists. They get reviewed by them too.
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by acveilleux 10y ago
They are but 3dClustSim (the culprit) is essentially used only for fMRI.
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by acveilleux 10y ago
Real casinos don't use legal fiction and owner stand-ins to separate the gambling part from the redeeming chip part into seemingly unrelated business.
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by acveilleux 10y ago
Often times, you don't even need to use particularly weird solutions. The timeframe for some of these projects is so long that whatever you pick going in is going to be obsolete or at least obsolescent on go-live. But that's fine,
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by acveilleux 10y ago
Startups attract and value the type of folks who will put in 60 hours every week and get obsessive about it. Sometimes it grows out of the company as it scales up. Other times it gets institutionalized. The Googles of the world are in a wei
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by acveilleux 10y ago
Your point about cars is well-made. European cities, by and large, predate the automobile. Most american cities do not. Indeed all the dense cities and parts of cities predate the gasoline engine. Compare Vegas and San Francisco or Brooklyn
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by acveilleux 10y ago
Most EAV implementations I've seen had under 10 distinct "schema-less" virtual tables (sorry about lack of terminology) with perhaps 40-60 distinct "columns" and the different variations of a record types usually ha
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by acveilleux 10y ago
This was probably the weakest suggestion in the article. That said, the default SERIAL type in postgres is 32-bit signed integer so it can be surprising when you exceed 2B items.
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by acveilleux 10y ago
If only developers learned more about the DB engines they use and their capabilities. I've seen so many bone headed decisions (EAV "schemas" being a recurring one) because it was easier to program around the DB than learn how
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by acveilleux 10y ago
At the price they paid, it's around $6.66 per person. They'd have paid a lot less for a lot more debt if they hadn't bought medical debt. And that's not even resorting to illegal means.
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by acveilleux 10y ago
The big question is does the emperor have any clothes? My guess is they'd settle for blocking certs issued after a specific date, at least for a transition period. The alternative would block too much of the internet.
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by acveilleux 10y ago
I'm trying to parse your statement and I'm not sure if you want something to enforce that divide or if your complaint with Jenkins is that it enforces a divide between dev and ops?
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by acveilleux 10y ago
It can do truly agent-less using raw mode (which is basically raw SSH). That said a version of Python 2 can be relied upon to be available on almost all Linux box.
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by acveilleux 10y ago
Honestly, writing perl in "C" style is really a good idea. At least if not pushed to extremes. It avoids a lot of unreadability and confusion. Other things I think make for good perl style: * Never use unless, especially as the af
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by acveilleux 10y ago
Based on the claim of 4% of 4GB (i.e: 160MB) in 2h, upload speed was ~180 kb/sec. Which is only marginally slower than what passes for broadband in lots of rural Canada (i.e.: Bell Alliant's best offering is 640k/s upload spe
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by acveilleux 10y ago
Funnily, the Montreal take on the railroad apartments usually has a narrow hallway going to the Kitchen which is the deepest room. The bathroom will be "in the kitchen" often as a closet with only a bathtub and toilet, no sink. It
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by acveilleux 10y ago
Ah but a dorm room has a window requirement and indoor plumbing. Doesn't sound like much but it is. A New York tenement at its worst has windows on the front and back face only, which are the main room of the appartments since they&#x2
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by acveilleux 10y ago
Generally, it's much easier to add complexity than remove it once it has been added. > So when you throw this code at your developers, it means that you'll end up with hundreds or thousands of little methods all similar but all

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