AlternateAccount posted:

It's a concrete countertop that wasn't sealed properly. So it's basically a giant hyper-porous sponge and impossible to keep clean because they cut corners and are stupid.

Viscous Soda posted:

Even so, bleach is still a thing. It couldn't be that hard to have some intern come in on Friday night and wipe down those counters with a bleach solution.

Viscous Soda posted:

Even so, bleach is still a thing. It couldn't be that hard to have some intern come in on Friday night and wipe down those counters with a bleach solution.

Gosts posted:

If you were to lock all the staff currently working on star citizen in any way, shape or form into a contained location, how long would it take for them to complete the game? (All features included)


In this scenario they still sleep, are fed, and have other life support. They can spend as much time goofing off or socializing as they want, so they aren't forced to work on the game, but they cannot contact friends or family, or spend any of their hard-earned money until they complete the game and leave.


All of the staff have been injected with anti-aging serum. Additionally, sleeping gas and tasers, straight jackets and more are used to prevent them from committing suicide or killing each other.

peter gabriel posted:

The before pic was 10 seconds before Chris made a coffee, poo poo's hard when you got severe Wavy Hand Syndrome

Thoatse posted:

Percelus posted:

https://twitter.com/TheRealGremlich/status/916654900968378368

some people just have incurable retardation

Dogeh posted:

You're not reading the right books.

This one is way better.

AlbieQuirky posted:

I assume we've already made fun of "fideles quoad decedemus" at some point, yes?

Jobbo_Fett posted:

Fidelitis quoth deroberts

Dogeh posted:

You're not reading the right books.

This one is way better.

Hopper posted:

Could be worse though, ask Ben, he knows all about reverse vision development.

Xaerael posted:

I though CIG's watermark was 123rf?

toanoradian posted:

edit: tax



What the hell are pop-up parties

Tippis posted:

Well, yes. The trick is tracking it live — again, in a static screen, it'll be a non-issue regardless. The whole system relies on 1) the user streaming content, b) not making any effort to hide or alter the string, and iv) being pretty much guaranteed to capture something CIG doesn't want to show in public.

The last point is a given, but the rest is just their being stupid. Same as the people who have supposedly been banned or evicted so far.

e: qne, wtf

AlternateAccount posted:

It's a concrete countertop that wasn't sealed properly. So it's basically a giant hyper-porous sponge and impossible to keep clean because they cut corners and are stupid.

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Pattern
In fact, we can start to identify the elements that allows this peculiar phenomenon of a technology firm with no technology to persevere:

● A super-believer founder who seeks out press attention.

●Brand-name investors (in MagicLeap's case Qualcomm, Alibaba and Google; in Theranos' Walgreens, Partner Investments).

●Big-name board members (for MagicLeap it's Google CEO Sundar Pichai, for Theranos it was former top politicians William Perry, Henry Kissinger and others).

●Industry buzz and fawning media articles.

●Periodic promises of the most amazing thing ever – just sit tight and believe.

Conspiratiorist posted:

Star Citizen is like when you invite your scrawny goony friend and his really fat girlfriend over, and they drop the good news on you: they're expecting. And you're like "that's great!" and ask when the baby's due, and they're like "we're not sure, probably anytime now" and that raises your red flags, and so you inquire further while they talk about how they're setting up the baby room and baby clothes and how daycare prices are atrocious and the schools nearby and all that jazz, and you find she stopped having her period like 8 months ago and they've never gone for a prenatal. Because she doesn't believe in doctors, you see. So they're going to do a natural birth with a certified midwife, of course. "Oh" you reply, and you desperately want to drop the topic, but you really can't hold it in, so instead you point out a checkup would still be a good idea, which gets her upset, but your friend tries to smooth over the situation and eventually they kind of nod that yeah they'll make an appointment.

So a couple months pass and you're having a cup of coffee with your friend and you go "so how's the baby doing?" and he goes "oh, it's all good, it's taking its time". And alarms start blaring in the back of your head so you ask "I thought you said it was almost due" and he goes "we must've miscalculated the date" and you go "oh, so what did the doctor say, is it going to be a boy or a girl?" and you can see the emptiness behind his eyes as with an awkward smile he tells you how they still haven't gone for a prenatal checkup.

Then a month later you spot your friend online and you really haven't seen him around these past few weeks, so you go for some PUBG duos and you're having fun, right, and you casually drop "so how's the girlfriend?" and you regret it almost immediately. Of course, she's doing fine. Of course, she's still pregnant. Of course, they haven't gone to the doctor. And with a sinking feeling on your stomach you tell your friend that they really ought to go for a checkup because the "baby" could be having issues.

And he just flips out, that you should mind your own loving business, the baby is doing fine, okay? It's just taking its time, and they want the gender to be a surprise so they aren't doing an ultra-sound. So why don't you shut up about it?

But a couple days later he messages you through facebook, apologizing for yelling at you, that was uncalled for. And you say it's cool, you're just worried about him. And he says he understands, but everything is fine, really, and he starts linking you to all these 'medical' articles about how sometimes pregnancies last more than usual and it's all healthy and natural so you've got nothing to worry about.

And so you're staring at the chat window, in which your friend is telling you how his girlfriends 11 months "pregnancy" is fine and healthy, and his wall is filled with pictures of how they've arranged the baby's room with so many comments expressing congratulations and support, and you can just tell that if you suggest a doctor one more time you won't be friends anymore.

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No matter where you put your server, your farthest customer will be halfway around the earth. Your average distance to all customers is one quarter of the earths circumference. In a vacuum photons travel around the earth 7.5 times a second. The refraction index of fiber cables is 1.467 so in a fiber cable the photon travels 5 times around the earth (200ms per circumnavigation). In contrast, Electrons take 18 seconds for one circumnavigation. In most coastal cities copper is all but gone, however in more rural areas and the southern hemisphere we still see significant copper networks. On average the remaining copper ads about 5ms which equals to around 10km of copper wiring. Network Infrastructure like routers and switches, especially the conversion from fiber to copper and back will add to the latency. A typical switch processes 64-byte frames in roughly 10 microseconds and through intelligent routing this can be reduce to become pretty much negligible. Given the above numbers we are looking at a theoretical average latency of around 105-110ms to a client anywhere on the globe.

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This brings us to the most important and most overlooked part of any application: Serialization. All your data that you send to your clients has to be serialized into frames and packets before it can travel across the internet. Think of your frame as a train, your packet as train wagons and your data as passengers in these wagons. Just like with trains, the loading and unloading of passengers at stops takes a long time and introduces latency.

The maximum frame size is 1518 bytes and it takes 8ms to serialize it on a 1.5Mbit link and 1.2 microseconds on a 10Gbps. A significant amount of latency is introduced in the scheduling of these packets both inside your network and on the internet.

A server can not send out all packets to all clients at the same time. He needs to schedule them. This is where the biggest challenge lies in most network optimization tasks. If your client sends a request to the server and there are 50 other clients in front of him, the packet has to wait serialization time * 50 before his packet gets processed and sent back. If the queue get's too big the server will have to drop packages. This is where software has to decide which packets are high priority and which are not, which packets need to be encrypted and which ones can be sent without encrypted as the encryption process adds even more latency. A typical scenario in banking is to send the share price change (not the price itself) with highest priority and all other meta data with low priority.

Infrastructure can to a certain extend alleviate the serialization problem by adding more interfaces to your servers but you will gain the most by introducing specialized servers and software to take care of this while your backend is tasked with with the actual calculation of the data.

Bofast posted:

This almost reads like it could fit in the relationship subreddit thread

Risc1911 posted:

Since the whole networking discussion has flared up again with the 3.0 alpha i compiled a little effort Post for those of you that want to have some arguments and knowledge about networking and it's limitations from someone that actually optimized highly sensitive baking software and network critical applications. (these are excerpts of my presentation/pitch for clients, i can't post the full thing since it contains too much sensitive data)



_{worldwide fiber network infrastructure (2016)}


This just scratches the surface of networking on the physical level. You can do a lot on the software side and with your actual infrastructure. This was meant to illustrate how no matter what you do with software, you can;t magically break the physical limits of how our internet is built.

Just shouting "muh server mesh" will not reduce latency or break the speed photons travel through fiber cables.

Risc1911 posted:

Since the whole networking discussion has flared up again with the 3.0 alpha i compiled a little effort Post for those of you that want to have some arguments and knowledge about networking and it's limitations from someone that actually optimized highly sensitive baking software and network critical applications. (these are excerpts of my presentation/pitch for clients, i can't post the full thing since it contains too much sensitive data)



_{worldwide fiber network infrastructure (2016)}


This just scratches the surface of networking on the physical level. You can do a lot on the software side and with your actual infrastructure. This was meant to illustrate how no matter what you do with software, you can;t magically break the physical limits of how our internet is built.

Just shouting "muh server mesh" will not reduce latency or break the speed photons travel through fiber cables.

Solarin posted:

I have pop up in the attic

Risc1911 posted:

Tokamak posted:

Of course WTFO is the streamer who is recruiting org members by doing ship giveaways.

Gosts posted:

If you were to lock all the staff currently working on star citizen in any way, shape or form into a contained location, how long would it take for them to complete the game? (All features included)


In this scenario they still sleep, are fed, and have other life support. They can spend as much time goofing off or socializing as they want, so they aren't forced to work on the game, but they cannot contact friends or family, or spend any of their hard-earned money until they complete the game and leave.


All of the staff have been injected with anti-aging serum. Additionally, sleeping gas and tasers, straight jackets and more are used to prevent them from committing suicide or killing each other.