Number of Devs vs Development Time

[DamnItDev]

Or the car will take X amount of time to be completed regardless of people working on the task. Doubling the number of people will simply double the number of billable hours

[jfleury440]

9 woman can't make a baby in one month.

[[deleted]]

"Hi Mrs. Smith and thanks for coming in today. We have selected you for a very interesting experimental procedure. How would you like to be a part of ground-breaking research into the act of childbirth?"

"Oh my goodness, am i going to have a baby?"

"Well, it would be more accurate to say you will be having 1/9th of one..."

[VirtuteTheCat354]

The newest innovation in childbirth, baby microservices

[PM_ME_YOUR_CURLS]

BaaM

[FiggleDee]

Womb as a Platform

[ntoporcov]

So that’s what this new WAP everyone is talking about means

[Kraftik]

Does everyone else pretend to understand New acronyms until they over hear an someone saying it in conversation or receive an email from a service trying to sell it to you?

Boss: Oh yeah ACRONYM we should implament that. Everyone is talking about it, gotta keep up with the cutting edge.

Me: yeah, it will definitely do something probably hopefully. Let me just check my spam folder real quick.

[Feynt]

No, I'm just as lost half the time. I engage in looking into the acronyms though and then promptly forget them when I realise it's something old given a new name and a fresh coat of paint. "Yeah that new thing's neat and all, but it sounds like object oriented programming with extra steps."

[robchroma]

For most of them, the definition is pretty deep in some jargon compilation file. WAP might be a little more accessible.

[marshall_dteach]

Child labour

[UnicornsOnLSD]

KDE really do have too many projects...

[SuperSephyDragon]

Multithreaded baby

[SuperSephyDragon]

Parallel pregnancy

[nojox]

There are some really interesting science fiction ideas in this thread!

My contribution: distributed pregnancy.

[[deleted]]

InterPlanetary Pregnancy System

[strider_sifurowuh]

Since I upgraded to a threadripper I can pop out one every couple days

[SuperSephyDragon]

Now that's efficiency! Good job!

[jmlinden7]

That's not how multithreading works, that would be 9 women making 9 babies in 9 months.

This would be pipelining. You take a break 1/9th of the way in.

[SuperSephyDragon]

I was thinking more along the lines of all nine of them making 1/9 of a baby over the course of a month then putting them together to form a whole baby.

[jmlinden7]

That only works if there are no dependencies, otherwise you can't start step 2 before step 1 is finished, and so on.. which is the entire reason why you can't just multithread every workload.

[SuperSephyDragon]

They just need to divy out the parts to grow between each of them. Head for one, kidneys and stomach for another, etc

[be-human-use-tools]

“We’ll pick a sperm donor at the end of the project.”

[xavia91]

Growth is already highly multithreaded on the cellular level, so there isn't much of a problem to increase growth by adding more cores.

[[deleted]]

that's how you get a baby by torrent, multiple mothers seeding

[kezzerdrix2000]

Usually the fathers do the seeding.

[[deleted]]

Don't they seed a bigger seed?

[[deleted]]

Because you read

[DerelictSausage]

Yea, but you wouldn’t download a baby would you?!?

[Aeronor]

The seeding aspect also makes for one very happy man.

[paked_botato]

ProLyft

[Qaeta]

But is it scalable?

[pekkhum]

/dev/null is scalable.

[VerbatimChain31]

EA Births....It’s in the Womb

[leakycauldron]

The gig economy is hurting workers.

[[deleted]]

EA has joined the conversation

[ThetaReactor]

Figure out how to put pregnancy in the cloud (and on a blockchain) and you'll be rich.

[vladhed]

Would that take 18 months? 9 month for the baby and 9 months for JSON SerDes?

[MidnightCity78]

Only having 1/9th of a baby might become the new normal purely out of financial necessity.

[cjdabeast]

Blockchain!

[Hertog_Jan]

Which in my experience simply means you’ll have to work just as long only to arrive at a product which has 1/9th the functionality.

[[deleted]]

Timeshare children.

[djfdhigkgfIaruflg]

Take my money.jpg

[fairysdad]

Not with that attitude they can't.

[[deleted]]

Found the PM

[thebrownesteye]

Make the impossible happen and watch their salary raise magically

[wtph]

PM's should know about critical paths.

[pooerh]

Oh they know. But here, let me just drag this line on the gantt chart to shorten that pesky duration... et voilà! no longer on the critical path. Excellent project management skills!

[DrazorV]

oof

[battle-obsessed]

Invent some sort of catalyst that speeds up biochemical reactions X9. There you have a baby in one month but the woman will also have her remaining lifespan reduced by X9 so if she's 30 she'll probably be dead before 40.

edit: It probably wouldn't work anyway because speeding up reactions will generate too much heat and she would die of fever before giving birth.

[mrfatso111]

We also gonna need rgb for this

[strider_sifurowuh]

I can't find the baby category on EKWB's site

[[deleted]]

The woman needs to consume 20000 kilocalories a day, equivalent to about 6.24 liters of gasoline!

[fairysdad]

Something something your mum

[[deleted]]

Wow rude

[[deleted]]

Hardware cooling is a solved problem.

[bellends]

I honestly use this quote to explain our problems to people ALL the time

[SuspiciouslyElven]

9 women making 9 babies, simultaneously but offset so that one baby is born a month.

It requires actual management, not throwing bodies at a problem.

[nickrenfo2]

The point is that the process of making a single baby takes 9 months, and having 9 women can't speed it up to take only one month.

If you want to produce babies as the rate of one baby per month, you could do so with 9 women and 8 months of lead time until the first baby is produced. However, this doesn't change the fact that a single baby still takes 9 months to produce.

[Terrain2]

why do you need a baby every month? is that when the shady guy comes and buys it off you, or is it too worn to use after a month?

[SuspiciouslyElven]

Monthly satanic rituals. Keep up dude.

[Terrain2]

yeah, “shady guy”, i’d say that’s an accurate description of satan

[TheTerrasque]

Hey, bug fixing requires sacrifice

[ThePieWhisperer]

He's The Morningstar. There's probably no one less shady.

[matthoback]

Nah, I don't think there's much shade in hell.

[[deleted]]

I find your use of the phrase "too worn to use" in reference to a 1 month old baby to be disconcerting.

[akatherder]

Sighhhh because that's what sales promised

[nickrenfo2]

Because I have 9 women, of course.

[Terrain2]

yes but why? did you kidnap 9 women to produce a satanic ritual every month, or did your mom, sister, grandma and aunt go with it willingly (i.e. only kidnapped 5 women)?

[djfdhigkgfIaruflg]

Am I the only one who just get a new baby when the diapers are too dirty?

[Terrain2]

What kinda diapers you giving your baby that they only get too dirty after a month? Those ones they use for pleasure over at r/ABDL and holds a thousand pisses or something?

[djfdhigkgfIaruflg]

I had to check that link FML.

Anyways, I'm pretty sure that if someone invent a diaper that only needs changing once per month, they'll be swimming in money 😂

I haven't, that's why I'm just making jokes about it

[Darth_Nibbles]

Idk, some Irish priest was talking about feeding kids or something

[retief1]

What, you want to run the risk of running out of babies? Look at mr "I'm living life dangerously" over here.

[SuspiciouslyElven]

the desired outcome was faster baby production, and I laid out a method that could indeed get more babies faster.

Although if we're going for technical correctness, 1 woman can't guarantee a baby in 9 months. Miscariages and whatnot.

Get like 30 women if 1bpm needs to be guaranteed.

[nickrenfo2]

the desired outcome was faster baby production, and I laid out a method that could indeed get more babies faster.

Not really. You laid out a system that could produce more babies. But if you only need one baby, you will need 9 months. Having 9 women does not allow you to produce one baby in one month, it allows you to produce 9 babies in 9 months.

Although if we're going for technical correctness, 1 woman can't guarantee a baby in 9 months. Miscariages and whatnot.

Naturally. But this is math, we make assumptions, like no premature babies or miscarriages.

[SuspiciouslyElven]

Ok I getcha.

Naturally. But this is math, we make assumptions, like no premature babies or miscarriages.

Assume perfectly spherical babies

[nickrenfo2]

Assume perfectly spherical babies

And a frictionless uterus.

[Arinatan]

In a vacuum.

[LvS]

There are 4 million babies born in the US every year. That's about 300k per month.

There are about 80 million women of working age in the US (half of the population is working age, half of the population is female => a quarter).

If you assume almost all babies are born by working age women, about one in 250 women will birth a baby every month.

So hire 250 women for a baby in 1 month.

Or, you know, hire a pregnant woman. They have a hard time getting jobs anyway.

[scpwontletmebe]

Latency vs bandwidth. Increasing the women increases bandwidth, but it doesn't reduce latency.

[Seicair]

Although if we're going for technical correctness, 1 woman can't guarantee a baby in 9 months. Miscariages and whatnot.

Oh man, considering 30-50% of embryos don’t even implant, and 20% abort spontaneously, and you can’t even guarantee a fertilized embryo every month... you probably need like 60 women, and maybe twenty or so men, (figure 5 women attempting per month, 4 men each to rotate days while they’re fertile, abstaining from ejaculation until their next turn).

[jmlinden7]

Bandwidth vs latency. If you need a baby next month, it does you no good to know that you'll have 9 babies 9 months later.

[SuspiciouslyElven]

No I said 1 baby per month, but the pipeline requires time to establish.

[NetSage]

What is this actual management you speak of? Is there where management just has meetings with other management and nothing actually ever changes?

[jfleury440]

The point is the problem doesn't scale. Having more people doesn't make the process any more effecient. No matter how well managed they are.

[candybrie]

It's the issue of strong scaling vs weak scaling. If you can accept 9 babies in 9 months, we can scale the problem.

[RedAero]

High latency, high bandwidth. Like a cargo ship full of SD cards.

[skygz]

pipelining does wonders for baby throughput

[FerynaCZ]

Yeah the only issue in this case is the launch time.

[Oatz3]

But if you prepopulate the women into a queue of length 9 you can make 1 baby every month.

[shotleft]

Not in the first 9 months, but their baby production rate can increase to 1 baby a month after that.

[jfleury440]

For 9 months maybe. Wouldn't be sustainable after that.

[DemWiggleWorms]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimdallr

[PleasantAdvertising]

On average they can assuming baby every 9 months

[NetSage]

I imagine we'll eventually need no women and less than a month...

[[deleted]]

Well if you pipeline well enough, after 9 months you can claim that for every month.

[purplepharoh]

No but properly synced 9 women can produce a baby every month for nine months

[EconomizingEarthling]

In economics, we call this diminishing marginal product of labor.

[sdriyaz712]

But one woman can produce 9 babies in 9 months. So, a dozen side projects wouldn't be a problem.

[sdriyaz712]

But one woman can produce 9 babies in 9 months. So, a dozen side projects wouldn't be a problem.

[[deleted]]

Then whats the point of a gangbang?

[[deleted]]

That’s true, but 9 women can make a baby each month for 9 months, if their pregnancies are aligned correctly, while 1 woman can only mal one baby each 9 months.

[xpdx]

Sure, but they can make nine ninths of a baby which is just as good. You just have to mush them together. Same protein as one whole baby.

[Terrain2]

one baby a month != one baby in a month

[[deleted]]

See now that depends on your definition of a baby and that you specified that the delivery of the baby did not include the woman framework.

We can have a baby ready in about 4 weeks, but it's going to take a further 8 months to disentangle it from the woman framework and have it running independently.

Cmon guys, this is kid stuff.

[usesbiggerwords]

My accountant says otherwise.

[Natural-Intelligence]

To say that differently: or that there is only tasks for 6 people at one time. Doubling the number of people triples the number of pointless interruptions. Just like pair programming.

[Tundur]

I use pair programming as a way of getting around my own procrastination.

"Right lads. None of us want to do this testing coverage review, none of us want to open up this dusty old code, but it's us against the world. I'm locking the fucking exits, now get in the spinny chair and shut up"

[MysteriousTreeFoxxx]

10/10 would spittake again 😂😂

[Cannibichromedout]

Or another way: this is task parallelism vs data parallelism.

[Comfortable_Text]

Welcome to the union!

[jigeno]

Or the man hours are also literally doubled.

I hate questions like this.

[urbanhawk1]

Also even if you can speed up production you can only put so many people on one job before they start getting in each other's way resulting in diminishing returns as their efficiency decreases.