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mircea_popescu: the problem is, since you can't guarantee workers staying up, you'll need a way
to create
them anyway.
diana_coman: that being said, I'm not sure in fact
that
there is a need for
the Initialize procedure itself if I'm
to cut something out (it's enough
to initialize
the array when declaring it - although
technically it will happen later
than within initialize,it's still before anyone gets
to use it so perfectly adequate)
diana_coman: s also when a job is finished since
the player id may be released or when/if a worker aborts unexpectedly )
diana_coman: asciilifeform, one could certainly keep at all
times 64 worker
threads idling and waiting for jobs; initially I had implemented it precisely as such: all it
takes is
to accept a Get_Job request only when
there IS a job
to hand out; it adds a bit of complexity in
there
though because
there has
to be a flag for "available job" and
then it has
to be kept up
to date correctly (which can be a bit
tricky as it's not only when a job is added, it'
BingoBoingo: also apparently
this unit had plastic window
trim
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform:
The plastic grocery bags
they hoard
BingoBoingo: Apparently I beat
the local news
to
this
too
BingoBoingo: The motos however did not get sirens, only
the apparatus
BingoBoingo: 1 fire
truck and 4 bombaderos on
their motocicletas were on
their way down
the street when I finished my rubbernecking
BingoBoingo: Blog post incoming, an Indula in one of
the giant, ancient concrete human warehouses on
the Rambla is engulfed in flame. Rest of
the building looked ok.
mircea_popescu: the ustard is
that species of moron who imagines anything outside his shithole doesn't, properly speaking, exist.
mircea_popescu: famously, a hungarian was defined cca 1890s, as
that species of moron who would rather eat soap wrapped in paper painted his coutnry's flag
than french cheese in a plain wrapper.
a111: Logged on 2019-02-07 18:20 mircea_popescu: meanwhile in
the everlulz, Cisza 21F sub 3h "Don't you know what lesbian means? fuck you" LordMPofTMSR "Lmao. I should know, I'm sure I fucked more
than you."
mircea_popescu: a need
to not fucking starve was identified, and
the ministry of idle pomp and spurious circumstance has issued a raft of confetty with scribblings on
them in
this general direction!
a111: Logged on 2019-02-02 02:40 asciilifeform: asciilifeform's pet , ~erry day at breakfast : 'when can i eat apple
that
tastes like apple again'
mircea_popescu: which is so su it screams, except of course it dun scream audibly enough
to penetrate
the us moron shell.
mircea_popescu: already in full swing.
the one response when getting $item for enslaved usgistani girly is "o wow
this is
the best $item i ever had".
mircea_popescu: well, it'd be unfair
to women of color or some shit
to make
them.
mircea_popescu: except
the us has no
train infrastructure
to speak of still, and instead of fixing
that obvious problem blew wad on anti-car ; and
the sligtht advantage submarine had historically is mostly gone, by now sub and ship equally detecvtable.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform still no way
to have high performance electric engine without high performance magnet. which is all
the lulzier considering usgistani "innovation" in "how
to go
three miles
to
the galon by first
turning it into a large lithium battery"
mircea_popescu: the us could be producing supermagnets out of discarded starbucks cups just as well as it makes "bridges" or "college graduates" or whatever else
they supposedly make.
mircea_popescu: in fact, pressed shitboard supermagnet just as likely as 3d-printed quantum computer or whatever
the fuck else.
they get all
the amateur
twerps
to pretend like pressed shitboard made houses are 100%
true and real houses, what's keeping
the imaginary magnets and imaginary computers i wish
to know ?
mircea_popescu: leaving aside how
the 2011
thread seems
to never have return
to nobody's concern. coulda baked some quantum computing magnets for
the same money.
mircea_popescu: the sheer unmitigated gall
to announce "they identified and sponsored". what
the fuck's it supposed
to do, i identified a need for more sluts and sponsored
the creation
thereof at
two bits a
titpair. what, usg,dea is better
than me or something, is
the hallucination here ?
mircea_popescu: es in Critical
Technologies (REACT) program,
to develop alternative materials. In 2011, ARPA-E awarded 31.6 million dollars
to fund Rare-Earth Substitute projects."
mircea_popescu: in other lulz : "Chinese manufacturers have become a dominant force in neodymium magnet production, based on
their control of much of
the world's sources of rare earth mines.
The United States Department of Energy has identified a need
to find substitutes for rare earth metals in permanent magnet
technology, and has begun funding such research.
The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy has sponsored a Rare Earth Alternativ
mircea_popescu: was
the only way --
they had
to be better, i wouldn't lower myself
to mine inferior stuff.
mircea_popescu: "do you realise what happens if he keeps mining $50
toys for 35 cent magnets ?"
mircea_popescu: it got so bad in mini-mp household, my father got me a stack of superalloy
things. "how can you give
that
to a child ? you realise what can happen if he swallows one ?" (they were
these
thin
tiny discs with hole in middle, enameled)
mircea_popescu: reportedly centroamericans had same
thought when presented with equestrian
tin
toys.
mircea_popescu: you might've not been
the only one, seen a lot of
these
a111: Logged on 2019-02-08 00:10 mircea_popescu: "i was nitpicking re strength, not
the model per se". wth, it's not necessary
the model airplane used
to
test out
the worker hive's going
to contain
the sort of seating inside you can ~rely on~
to see in
the finished item.
a111: Logged on 2019-02-05 14:49 asciilifeform: on
that subj, attentive ffa reader will notice in certain places asciilifeform marked in comment 'cosmic ray resistance' .
this indicates mechanisms where
there are
two or more separate pieces
that ensure a correct computation (or death with alarm bells) if somehow bit flips , when
this is inexpensive.
mircea_popescu: "i was nitpicking re strength, not
the model per se". wth, it's not necessary
the model airplane used
to
test out
the worker hive's going
to contain
the sort of seating inside you can ~rely on~
to see in
the finished item.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: you can't go "it doesn't seem
to me
this architectural model is very strong, seems made of polystyrene". yes,
the model's made of polystyrene.
a111: Logged on 2019-01-22 22:35 asciilifeform:
this is done with a standard ada feature called 'controlled limited
type'. which i found
that, for no documented reason, dunwork in gnat's static lib.
mircea_popescu: it is most wise
to start restricted and push out as need be, no sooner.
mircea_popescu: i actually quite like
the encapsulation she calls "sjm"
mircea_popescu: i find apache an excellent model for
the problem here.
the concept of "worker" as used
there specifically.
mircea_popescu: if you go "job is
the player",
then you'll
trivially want
to support more
than 1 player/core. if you go "job is crafting or w/e", you will have 50 cores doing "crafting" one
time and 5 another
time depending and so on.
mircea_popescu: because
there's potentially more
types of jobs
than cores.
diana_coman: daca-i cu
tovarasi e cu margarina, nu cu unt!!
diana_coman: sometimes I wonder if practical-minded is not
the polite way of saying unimaginative but anyways
diana_coman: well yes, less harmful, perhaps even pretty for a bit (until one remembers
that
they are anyway just flying worms of sorts)
mircea_popescu: a more practical-minded culture, aka "numa' la foale
ti-i gindu', sa le-ndopi!"
diana_coman: since fluturi are butterflies,
they are obviously lighter and not loud but also without much substance and not long lived
diana_coman: I'll add
to gargauni, goange and barzauni
the "fluturi" as one might have
those
too!