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IS THERE A FINANCIAL INTENSIVE TO GO WITH THAT EXTRA RESPONSIBILITY?!
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YES. YOU GET AN INCREMENT OF 10% TO THE SALARY OF A SHOUTING OFFICER!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Well played.
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Do I have to do everything round here?
You'd think I was yer mum ...
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Yes. And don't talk to me until you've finished cleaning my room!
But seriously, you are CCC master around here, I don't want to steal your fun-der.
Also, I was kind of just interested in learning about the tagging mechanism, I've wondered for a while but never bothered to learn until now. It seemed like a good opportunity.
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I've heard a lot about it, but haven't yet been able to see it — or to know if I can see it. Will check the video on that page.
Some of the photos that I have seen are really amazing.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
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The Astronomy Picture of the Day[^] has had shots of it for the last several days. There are some great ones of it.
Unfortunately I have a hillside and trees to my NW so I won't be able to see unless I go somewhere else.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Rick York wrote: Unfortunately I have half a planet to my NW so I won't be able to see unless I go somewhere else. (It's called localisation! )
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Peter_in_2780 wrote: Unfortunately I have half a planet to my NW
Are you sure about that? The planet also rotates.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I could misquote Galileo, but...
NW is defined in a geocentric (or at least geodetic) frame of reference, fixed relative to the earth.
If I draw a line on the ground NE/SW, the vertical plane through that line approximately* bisects the earth. giving me a NW half and an SE half.
My original comment was a light-hearted way of saying I'm too far south to see the comet.
* Don't get me started on geodesy. I've spent too many hundreds of hours battling through that jungle of intractable 3D trigonometry.
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Cheers,
Peter
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I know the feeling - I have a small mountain in the way. I could drive up it, but ... lockdown and all that ...
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It should have been visible last night in Israel. I tried to see it, but it was either lost in the twilight or lost in the haze close to the horizon. It should be higher in the sky tonight, so I'll try again.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Nope...
Kid and me are ill... so we haven't gone out
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Not Covid, I hope?
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Nope, but throat / bronchia related (bacterial infection), that's why I prefer to stay home.
Thanks for asking
And same as you and Rick... from here I can't see it. Im in the shadow side of a tiny hill. Heck, I can't even see the new year's eve fireworks of the city
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That's a relief - as someone whose had it, I wouldn't wish it on anybody ... get well soon, both of you!
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Thanks.
OriginalGriff wrote: I wouldn't wish it on anybody I didn't have it, and I wouldn't wish it on anybody, and even less in me or my family.
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Clouds aren't helping!
That, and having to stay up until it's properly dark! Way too late for me.
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Ditto - Clouds. There is rumoured to be a bright yellow circular shiny thing above the clouds as well. Not seen any evidence of that either. Apparently, it should be visible during day time.
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jsc42 wrote: Apparently, it should be visible during day time.
I've been in the UK. What is this thing you call "day"?
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Last night, there was a clear patch and I knew roughly where to look; unfortunately right across the street with light pollution from houselights, street lights etc. and only just clearing some roof tops. To the naked eye, there was just a vague small smudge like a short contrail, so I got some binoculars and it was the comet. It is the (visually) longest tailed comet that I have seen; but not as bright as Hale-Bopp was in 1997. It is well worth searching for; but I'd strongly recommend using binoculars to see it once you have located it.
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So as an instructional article I'm preparing code that can enqueue work items to a limited number of threads. If all the threads are busy and there's no more thread creation allowed (say you have a 3 thread limit) then one of the threads that's already busy enqueues the next message for when it's done with what it's currently processing. It schedules among the already busy threads using a round robin technique.
The whole thing works using message passing and message queues. That's how the threads communicate with each other. You can post messages to each of the threads.
The trouble with it is the complexity of it snowballs. All of the sudden I need to sync the UI which requires a whole separate layer. And then there's the interthread communication that's already complicated.
There's only so much I can fit into an article without overwhelming the reader, and to produce anything approaching a real world example requires so much complicated code that it's just silly.
Oh you did this over here? Well you need to synchronize over there. And because you did that, you need to handle it over there too, etc. It's a mess.
I really think the approach traditional computers take to preemptive multithreading is an anti-pattern. It feels like every anti-pattern I've ever encountered: The more code you need to make it work, the more code you need to make it work! You end up putting more work into it just to get to the point where you can put more work into it, and everything feels like a workaround.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Well, I'm a longstanding member of the choir that you're preaching to.
If it's a thread pool, I have them share a work queue. You seem to imply that you queue messages against threads even in this case, but I doubt it. I only queue messages on a thread when it's the only one handling that kind of work.
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