A very common source of writer’s block is the constant need of a “meaning”, or a “form”, or some sort of constraint, like the size (1000 words by noon, ok?). This can be really pressuring.

作家一个很常见的瓶颈就是非要有个写作的"意义",或者一种"形式",或者其他的一些限制,例如字数(比方说到中午要写够1000字,是吧?)

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Description: Change a constraint (data type, size, etc) to simplify the problem Then try to solve it Once you have an algorithm for the "simplified" problem, generalize the problem again.

说明：通过改变一些条件，(比如数据类型或者问题的规模)来简化问题，然后设计一个算法来解决这个简化过的问题，然后在问题一般化还原回来。

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During import, the total number of rows is constraint by the maximum possible size of the SQL statement, the commit scope, the total number of rows being imported, or all of these.

在导入期间，总行数受sql语句的最大可能大小、提交范围(commit scope)、被导入的总行数或所有这些因素的限制。

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GE, on the other hand, decided to focus on one turbine size that met the needs of markets where tight spaces were not a constraint and devoted resources to optimizing the efficiency of that turbine model.

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That is precisely the kind of hard constraint Congress needs imposed on it otherwise it will never cut federal spending down to size.

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