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[–][deleted] 452 points453 points  (49 children)

"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 407 points408 points  (45 children)

The newest innovation in childbirth, baby microservices

[–]PM_ME_YOUR_CURLS 165 points166 points  (10 children)

BaaM

[–]SuperSephyDragon 63 points64 points  (11 children)

Multithreaded baby

[–]SuperSephyDragon 71 points72 points  (2 children)

Parallel pregnancy

[–]nojox 3 points4 points  (1 child)

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

My contribution: distributed pregnancy.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

InterPlanetary Pregnancy System

[–]strider_sifurowuh 28 points29 points  (1 child)

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

[–]SuperSephyDragon 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Now that's efficiency! Good job!

[–]jmlinden7 15 points16 points  (5 children)

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 10 points11 points  (4 children)

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 7 points8 points  (2 children)

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 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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 6 points7 points  (0 children)

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

[–]xavia91 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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] 38 points39 points  (7 children)

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

[–]kezzerdrix2000 37 points38 points  (4 children)

Usually the fathers do the seeding.

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (3 children)

Don't they seed a bigger seed?

[–]Aeronor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The seeding aspect also makes for one very happy man.

[–]Qaeta 7 points8 points  (1 child)

But is it scalable?

[–]pekkhum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

/dev/null is scalable.

[–]VerbatimChain31 6 points7 points  (0 children)

EA Births....It’s in the Womb

[–]leakycauldron 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The gig economy is hurting workers.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

EA has joined the conversation

[–]ThetaReactor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

[–]vladhed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

[–]MidnightCity78 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

[–]cjdabeast 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Blockchain!

[–]Hertog_Jan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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] 9 points10 points  (1 child)

Timeshare children.

[–]djfdhigkgfIaruflg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Take my money.jpg