about 7500 buildings have been destroyed since this was posted. most are houses, shops, restaurants and offices. I'll add a stats page soon so anyone can see it.
> There is nothing more frustrating than pointing out a legitimate bug only to feel like you're talking to a brick wall.
At a bare minimum, this sentence was AI inspired. Likely generated. Which certainly casts the whole response into doubt (that it is human-written.) Reads more to me like a person gave a quick quippy response to an AI to clean up, then just took the output and replied.
Interstellar space behaves as an almost perfect blackbody radiator, at a temperature of 2.725 Kelvin, due to the cosmic microwave background. As such, it does "emit heat", albeit an extremely small, but measurable amount.
Download the app then - by which I mean RedReader, as low in BS as the server allows for and really the only 3rd party app remaining after they pulled a Twitter a few years ago (it survived by extreme backlash and arguing it had right now better accessibility than the official bloated one)!
For your computer, might I recommend the "Old Reddit Redirect" extension, which currently solves the "for your security" ban on the classic layout for non-logged-in users?
I remember at one point years ago they were requiring their app (and/or maybe a sign-in?) for NSFW content, for no particular reason. Now it's this.
More and more I'm thinking of what a nonsense world we live in. Once upon a time we hated Microsoft for trying to make us use IE. Now every company from McDonalds to onetime-open-Internet-darling Reddit is trying to force us to use their shitty apps, which amount to just single-site web browsers, which almost always entails granting way more powerful permissions, and which always renders you unable to block ads.
I agree with your sentiment, but reiterate that reddit is totally usable on a web browser. I didn't realize there was now a login requirement, but I don't particularly care about that.
I do have an old phone dedicated to the apps you simply can't avoid, but it spends most of its time sitting on a desk in airplane mode or powered off.
He’s still allowing for exactly 60s between executions. He’s saying stagger the startup by a random amount up to 60s. Then we get what we want every 60s, but they’re all just staggered a random amount.
My bad. I misread it. Delaying the start like that does divide the thundering herd peak by 60. The point about c Rand stands.
The other thing to watch out for is you’ve still got 1/60 of the thundering herd at the second level. If the tasks are <1s and you have enough of them (as you probably do at grid scale), then doing it finer grained is warranted like offsetting the timer by a millisecond sleep of 10 * uniform_distribution between 0 and 6000. That then gives you 10ms granularity, distributing the workload by two more orders of magnitude.
I almost wrote 59.999 seconds too, but I figured someone would nitpick that the timing often won't be that accurate or will get coalesced. ;)
I should have said, you almost always want to use the randomly staggered timers on initialization, not just when the exact timer interval matters! It's also important to test electricity or backend outages, which can unintentionally synchronize all the timers.
You have good advice and I missed the “on startup” for the wait.
A common aggregation is about 10ms although most OSes can give you finer granularity accuracy if you ask for it and have permissions. It really depends on how long the task takes and whether there’s any non-uniformity in its processing to make finer granularity helpful or harmful.
Unfortunately some people do read advice like it’s mana from the gods instead of thinking through the implication on their specific problem.
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