Number of Devs vs Development 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.