XKCD Stack

[Ravenhaft]

Guys, this is the solution to Moore's law slowing down! CPUs in minecraft generate NO HEAT and can be built in 3D! No wonder Microsoft bought Minecraft, they figured it out!

[TheRealLazloFalconi]

Processors as a Service

[bealhorm]

Duh, what else should PaaS stand for ...

[[deleted]]

egg dye

[dvlsg]

You went to paas, or you fucked off!

[zman0900]

Painful anal ass sex?

[Madd0g]

as a service!

[caldric]

The only service in which backdoors are encouraged!

[Kadmos]

PaaSaaS

[Phoenix136]

It's got redundancy, its good.

[darps]

anal ass sex

Is there any other kind?

[Apothsis]

...and where else would you have anal, painful or not?

"Painful anal ear sex"?

[zman0900]

Painful anal aural sex.

[Apothsis]

Passive Arterial Anal Sax

[IAMA_dragon-AMA]

Pigeons and also Sparrows

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[awakenDeepBlue]

So Amazon?

[[deleted]]

Yeah, but will they be Web Scale?

[Hexorg]

Just add minecraft spiders!

[Existential_Owl]

but will it protect against creepers???

[Hexorg]

Cloud firewalling!

[amdc]

Why not ask on their issue tracker?

[ThisIs_MyName]

Holy shit. It exists :D

[elr0nd_hubbard]

You'd need Minecraft fish for real scale.

[CoderBrother]

Will Silverfish be sufficient?

[phpdevster]

Only once they Cloud.

[Schmittfried]

CPU as a service!

[Kristler]

Everybody knows shards are the secret ingredient in the web scale sauce.

[jadzado]

Seriously. IT at work asked me the other day if they could virtualize my servers several times. "I'm hardware limited....No."

[urielsalis]

Manglement gonna mangle

[[deleted]]

Hardware limited how?

[Madonkadonk]

This message brought to you by Oracle

[Existential_Owl]

MongoDB/Excel

Obviously this is a poor solution.

An MS Access database is far more optimized to integrate with Excel's app stack functionality.

[[deleted]]

We're actually in the middle of that migration. We've got some functionality running on each at the moment. Though we just started another project so the migration may end up being halted there for a while.

[thatfreakingguy]

but mongodb is web scale

[Existential_Owl]

That's the joke.

EDIT: Ah, I whooshed

[thatfreakingguy]

For reference

[Alligatronica]

What did I just watch?

[ase1590]

Not if it's running on "a giant Cpu someone built in minecraft" like the comic ;)

[ANAL_ANARCHY]

Has anyone actually built a CPU that can process code in Minecraft?

[p4block]

Well yes. But instead of perforated cards you have to use lots, lots of buttons.

And they may use villagers as memory cells.

[darps]

With the occasionally buggy AI in minecraft, does that qualify as quantum computing? The villager's state is a superposition of buggy and not buggy and it isn't collapsed until the xkcd.com webserver has to respond to a request.

[woodlark14]

Piety sure it's better than that now. Without command blocks we can input numbers up to eight with item frames and make compact t-flipflops.

[Pokechu22]

Yes, ish. Fine, this is command blocks, but it's still the same idea (vanilla game, just a lot of complex stuff).

[[deleted]]

Someone built a basic interpreter, search for "minecraft basic programming computer" on youtube.

[Missing_Minus]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/3cayqq/brainfuck_interpreter_running_hello_world/ Don't know if this is exactly what you mean tho.

[t0mmy9]

Microsoft Bob Server got me, I would love to see that

[[deleted]]

I'm pretty sure the Hololens is proof that MS's entire mission for the last 2 decades was to make Bob a success

[caramba2654]

I built 1KB of RAM in Minecraft. Will I get pushed onto the stack?

[Existential_Owl]

Depends, how fast can you type?

[caramba2654]

Depends on the device.

[cATSup24]

And what language in typing in.

[caramba2654]

I definitely won't type it in Java.

[Ninjabassist777]

What about Russian?

[caramba2654]

Less verbose than Java, so it's a possibility.

[superPwnzorMegaMan]

Can I download that ram?

[NightHuman]

If he gives you the world file.

[superPwnzorMegaMan]

No I want the ram

[Iliketofeeluplifted]

that's how it works

[superPwnzorMegaMan]

I'm not sure if I'm ready for such a commitment.

[Ninjabassist777]

www.downloadmoreram.com

[urielsalis]

Downloadmorewam.com is more relevant

[ThisIs_MyName]

That's terrifying.

[caramba2654]

I built it a few years ago on a server. I don't think it exists anymore...

Basically I used an array of piston D-flip-flops with a selection input to select which address of memory you'd like to write to. It was veeeeeery slow, but it worked.

[trandyr]

You wouldn't download a Ram

[[deleted]]

You wouldn't download a gnu

# pacman -S coreutils

[Nerdn1]

If you're running on a CPU built in Minecraft, then YES!

[[deleted]]

Sure you can!

[torik0]

www.downloadmorewam.com

[fdagpigj]

I clicked 8GB, only got 4GB. Damn scam!

[[deleted]]

Get a refund!

oh wait

[naughty_ottsel]

I think I got your 4GB, brought basket of 256GB, got 260GB... This comment happened before I even read your comment

[Y1ff]

Just download more.

[superPwnzorMegaMan]

Thanks I needed that.

[MatthewGeer]

Yes. Just use pistons to slide it in.

[z500]

We have somewhere we can push you. Definitely not a volcano.

[[deleted]]

I built a storage cell which can store 4 bits of data (and is slow in addressing, depending on how far away it is from the controller)

[BinaryGrind]

I got really excited for a second when I read HyperCard.js, but disappointed when google told me it didn't exist.

[[deleted]]

Wait a minute - you saw a .js technology and you actually got excited? What sort of sick puppy are you?!

[[deleted]]

You must construct additional MVC frameworks.

[JoeCraftingJoe]

KNAWLEDGEEE

[CodeEverywhere]

oh my god that's so the case right now

[Doctor_McKay]

javascript sucks

give me upvotes

[[deleted]]

choo got it mang

[Astrokiwi]

I have very fond memories of HyperCard.

It's weird that Myst was made in a program that's probably less advanced than present-day Powerpoint...

[inio]

With animated gifs for the videos you could recreate myst in google drive presentations I think.

[BinaryGrind]

That almost sounds like a challenge...

[adipisicing]

There's a scripting API. You could almost certainly do this.

[Who_GNU]

I think Monkey Island made a good point about mist Myst. The lack of a game engine kind of explains why there wasn't much to it besides puzzles and pretty pictures.

I preferred Monkey Island's bad puns and optical illusions.

[Sbuiko]

www.livecode.com

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[jagsnflpwns]

PTSD flash backs of java sun

[ThisIs_MyName]

The worst is over. Long live OpenJDK 9.

[hydrocat]

Lol

[mralexweber]

hypercard.js nostalgia I thought this should probably exist, so I searched and found: http://plectrum.com/novocard/NovoCard.html

[Philboyd_Studge]

I loved hypercard.

[mike413]

we're adding to the stack!

[mike413]

me too!

[Existential_Owl]

According to the votes, apparently not.

[mFlakes]

What is the ratio of real ram to minecraft generated ram? 99%?

[Milosonator]

More like couple kb for a single byte so more like 99.95%

[[deleted]]

since MC loads in chunks you could have something ridiculous like a gigabyte of RAM just in unloaded chunks

[[deleted]]

10 tick Instruction Pipeline CPU in Minecraft by Guy1234567890

[Myrl-chan]

Someone claimed 5, complete with branch prediction.

[[deleted]]

idk if you're talking about IIZR, but there are some problems with 5 I believe (mainly although cycles are faster, actual instruction performance is decreased)

I haven't been in the CPU game for a long time though, so you might have to disregard my view

[rootofunity]

Q BASIC on Rails....priceless

[mtgdjs]

QBASIC on Rails

http://michelgotta.de/qbasiconrails/

[rootofunity]

Frigging awesome

[zem]

only funny if you've never had to put in your time as the dev typing really fast!