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4:31 AM

Might be of interest:

For a matter modelling person, the most valuable resource is computing power. For many of us, computing power at hand limits the scale of problems we can solve. There are many national supercomputing facilities for academics. What are the resources available in each country?

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Andriy M

6:55 AM

70+ messages across different chat rooms in a span of less than an hour, likely all posted manually too – that's a sign of dedication

Morning

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Vérace

8:31 AM

Morning all - last day in fiancée's for a while - a couple of new words for @AndriyM!

Cob on canal bridge looking down on his family! A cob is a male swan!

Close up of cob!

The pen with her (their) cygnets in the river below the canal bridge - what the cob is looking down upon. A pen is a female swan!

Andriy M

Pen and cob were both unfamiliar to me, thanks!

Vérace

Later on walk - family reunited in river - again taken from canal bridge!

Andriy M

But wait a minute, is that a bridge with a canal?

Vérace

@AndriyM - I must confess even though English is my first language, I didn't know those words either until recently when I was searching for "swan egg incubation period" because there was a nest < 1m from a path that I took regularly - I wanted to know how long I had to wait - didn't want to disturb them while brooding!

Andriy M

Didn't pay attention to the fence at first, though it was just an alley along a canal. Then you said canal bridge, and I looked again... wow

Vérace

8:41 AM

@AndriyM Yes, it is a bridge over the river which also contains the canal!

About 20m above river!

Andriy M

A body of water over a body of water, interesting

Vérace

Not uncommon with canals - at least not here!

Andriy M

Or, if you put it another way, a body of water under a body of water. Equally interesting

@Vérace Certainly uncommon where I live. Never saw one in my life, though it's certainly not inconceivable, people have built aqueducts since a long ago

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mustaccio

11:49 AM

@AndriyM Might have used one of those monster supergrids

McNets

12:41 PM

Morning

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ypercubeᵀᴹ

4:01 PM

@AndriyM reminded me of:

Island in a Lake on an Island in a Lake on an Island

Andriy M

4:39 PM

@ypercubeᵀᴹ That's multi-level nesting. And a canal bridge over a river is like CROSS APPLY. So both are actually topical here, it appears

@mustaccio I'm probably not familiar with those

Paul White 9

4:57 PM

Is that new? It's annoying.

Andriy M

I think it is

I mean it probably is new and it definitely is annoying

Paul White 9

I thought there might be a way to disable it in my profile settings

Andriy M

"Hey, just a though but why don't we make that item optional?" – "Are you kidding me? Who in their right mind would ever want to turn it off?"

mustaccio

Beowulf cluster

A Beowulf cluster is a computer cluster of what are normally identical, commodity-grade computers networked into a small local area network with libraries and programs installed which allow processing to be shared among them. The result is a high-performance parallel computing cluster from inexpensive personal computer hardware. The name Beowulf originally referred to a specific computer built in 1994 by Thomas Sterling and Donald Becker at NASA. The name "Beowulf" comes from the Old English epic poem of the same name.No particular piece of software defines a cluster as a Beowulf. Beowulf clusters...

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Cade Roux

8:36 PM

Part of my build process is auto-generating the data dictionary for our data mart from a Wiki with some hand-edited articles and generated articles. Turns out, the version currently being validated has some undocumented tables and views and columns because no one reviewed them near the end of the release cycle. I should put in dummy tables in each version like 'This is the V6.0 dummy table that you need to remember to suppress once documentation is done'.

Undocumented, meaning the tables and views are listed and all their columns and data types are listed, but there is no table description or column descriptions...

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Max Vernon

9:46 PM

So my laptop seems to have an artificial RAM limitation built into the BIOS... Intel specs say the Z270 chipset and the I7 7700K processor can handle 4 dimms, and indeed Windows 10 task manager sees the 4 dimms (2x16GB and 2x32GB dimms for a total of 96GB), however the bios only reports 64GB of ram, and Windows can indeed only use 63.9GB. Task Manager reports 32.1GB of RAM is "hardware reserved". Frustrating.