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Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest

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faflec said:
@Cariyaga I just noticed this after reading Vecht's plan, but your plan doesn't have a firm point where we talk to everyone relative to arriving at Leaf. Maybe say that we got to Leaf first or something?
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I suppose so.

I'm getting a bit exhausted. Does anyone have better suggestions for wording the discussion about Mari before I'm too far gone?
 
Cariyaga said:
Ehh... but I really don't want to just leave them to it. Hazou's been really stressed lately and needs support, not infighting between his mother and Mari.
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Hana is not stupid enough to jeopardize his son's health and general well-being by fighting with Mari, however justified it may be. At worst she'll just give Mari the cold shoulder or something, maybe embarass her in a non-politically-ruinous manner.
 
Having the discussion in Leaf means we can be a little less paranoid about wordings and the like... maybe put something back in about Hazou having forgiven Mari for her part in what happened (without going into too much detail as to what that was)?
 
HAZOU: (explaining his theory to NOBURI and KEI)
faflec said:
Hana is not stupid enough to jeopardize his son's health and general well-being by fighting with Mari, however justified it may be. At worst she'll just give Mari the cold shoulder or something, maybe embarass her in a non-politically-ruinous manner.
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(The very second HANA sets foot in Leaf: )

HANA: (decks MARI in the face) LET'S FUCKING GO, BITCH!
 
That's just it. This is a dangerous setting with horrible infrastructure. You might be able to talk to town (or your village center) with a pack, but good luck getting a cart anywhere.

Seal based transport bypasses that. You would see last mile transport done potentially by pack, but anything further than that done by genin with storage seals.
 
eaglejarl said:
Put all your data on some physical backup, such as tapes. Stuff a stationwagon full of said backup medium and drive it to your destination. Voila, you have just moved data from A to B vastly faster than you could over the internet.

In point of fact, this is part of what my startup does. A big problem that cancer researchers have is that they do a few genetic assays and they end up with 100,000+ files, most of which are tiny but a handful are 300-500 GB. There is literally no way to move that data over the internet -- my cofounder was in cancer research for twenty years and he tried every possible solution, including Box.com, Dropbox, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent, etc. None of these work -- the cloud providers can't handle that many files / such large files, most universities block BitTorrent and getting an exception is essentially impossible, S/FTP will lose the connection and bork before getting the data there or else a bit will get flipped in transit and you end up with a corrupted file. Don't even get me started on compliance issues around HIPAA, IP protection, etc.

It's insanely stupid for this to be true in 2018, but the way that cancer labs typically get their data from their lab to their collaborators' labs is to FedEx a series of hard drives...which comes with its own issues.
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On the other hand, it makes a ton of sense that this is true in 2018. As much as file transfer rates increase, the ability to store data increases just as fast. Also, as people discover they *can* use more space, they tend to do so, even if they really don't need to. Case in point: I've downloaded datasets from "big data cloud storage solutions" where the data table was >2 Tb in size, yet the relevant actionable data was ~1 Gb. Presumably, if the people uploading the data could have stored the data in Exabytes, they probably would have, regardless of how much signal there actually was in the data to analyze.


I'm not surprised it's even worse for industries like cancer research where there's less understanding on what is or isn't valuable signal, especially when there's high quality images involved.
 
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eaglejarl said:
Put all your data on some physical backup, such as tapes. Stuff a stationwagon full of said backup medium and drive it to your destination. Voila, you have just moved data from A to B vastly faster than you could over the internet.

In point of fact, this is part of what my startup does. A big problem that cancer researchers have is that they do a few genetic assays and they end up with 100,000+ files, most of which are tiny but a handful are 300-500 GB. There is literally no way to move that data over the internet -- my cofounder was in cancer research for twenty years and he tried every possible solution, including Box.com, Dropbox, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent, etc. None of these work -- the cloud providers can't handle that many files / such large files, most universities block BitTorrent and getting an exception is essentially impossible, S/FTP will lose the connection and bork before getting the data there or else a bit will get flipped in transit and you end up with a corrupted file. Don't even get me started on compliance issues around HIPAA, IP protection, etc.

It's insanely stupid for this to be true in 2018, but the way that cancer labs typically get their data from their lab to their collaborators' labs is to FedEx a series of hard drives...which comes with its own issues.
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You know, 10 years ago, I'd probably be outraged at the idea of needing to FedEx hard drives around because of a university network blocking BT... Nowadays, whatever. If you have a solution that serves your requirements and the world isn't on fire, godspeed.

Cloud provider object stores not being able to handle such paltry datasets sounds wrong to me, though. I've seen and personally put much worse bullshit in S3 buckets without issue, at least. It wasn't especially fast on large object counts, but definitely faster than FedEx.
 
Man...

I'm looking forward to seeing Hana realize that her little boy has grown up, but is still the same one she always knew. A little rougher around the edges, but no less hopeful and idealistic.
 
Inferno Vulpix said:
Needs fewer exclamation points
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But then how will you tell where the sentences end!!
and more obscure folk sayings involving turtles and other animals
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I honestly haven't noticed any folk sayings about turtles. Is FMoC unusual in not doing this, or am I just blind?
Other than that, you do a pretty good job at this. When I read FMoC, I have to put myself in a mindset where it's like I'm being told the story verbally, because the style of the story doesn't feel weird only if I do that.
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<3 Maybe I should do an audiobook.... /s​​
 
...On that note.

@OliWhail Can I request an irregular (as in, not one of the weekly updates) interlude about what Hazou's dad was like? We don't know much about him, and... won't get the chance to like we will for Hana. For some time, at least. :p
 
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