🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@pganssle handrolling a solution is trivial so thats not a problem, and ultimately that is exactly what I did.

The issue isnt that i wanted a pre-made class that had this behavior. Its that a true atomic counter can not be implemented by hand. Sure the implementation you linked behaves the same, but at a low level its using a lock. True atomic counters behave this way without engaging an actual lock and thus are much faster under certain scenarios.

I have recently uncovered a user who seems to be opening temporary accounts at QOTO, blocking all the moderators so we dont see their posts and then posting high offensive material (nazi imagery, transphobic and hateful derogatory content, etc) and then proceeding to announce to block list moderators and possibly on the #Fediblock list in general in an attempt to get us banned.

The issue of users being able to block moderators and do **exactly** this is something I have brought up to @Gargron before probably over a year ago but he has never acted on fixing this issue and does not see it as needing fixing from what I could gather (he can interject here if he would like).

It is something we as moderators are powerless to detect or act against unless someone actually reports the content first, that is the only way we will even see it. Thankfully none of the block lists have actually acted on this and no damage to QOTO has been done. But seeing as this may continue I want to make others aware of the problem, press gargron to fix the issue once more, and also encourage **anyone** who sees such content on QOTO to please report it so we can act on it.

I can not personally confirm this but according to the block-list operator they seem to have reason to think it is @snow behind the attacks. This would be in line with the behaviors from snow I have witnessed in the past.

For the attempt by snow to spam and falsely accuse instances see here:

https://likeable.space/notice/A21ux0IbhoDJIkNxzc

For more information see these attempted block requests on QOTO that were made in this fashion:

https://schlomp.space/FediBlock/data/pulls/255/files

https://schlomp.space/FediBlock/data/pulls/248

@arteteco @Sphinx @khird

@snow Please stop trying to play the victim... everyone you dont like or who disagrees with you you force your views on and have went so far as to open tons of alt accounts posting fake shit on instances you dont like hoping to get them blocked (and mostly failing)... You **are** the problem, look in the mirror, you are a horrible human being and what you do is far far worse than some drawings someone happens to do, you try to hurt actual people.

@codepuppy Your actually getting super close to realizing why their so powerful by realizing they arent using unit vectors... do yo uwant the answer?

@codepuppy They are just complex numbers more or less, really nothing too complex...

The magic that you seem to be missing though is still why they are useful, special and prefered for certain situations.

@codepuppy Way to go, its great to learn a new thing...

Here is the catch to really understanding Quaternions and how to use them though... do you understand what a quaternion can accomplish and why one might use it over the simpler to understand and more generally useful vector math? Afterall if you use vectors you can work in any number of dimensions whereas quaternions are limited 3D rotations or 4D points. So understanding why quaternions are superior for specific situations is really the key to getting them and using them.

@kline I call it SpaceHeaterApp, it turns your computer into a space heater, doesnt even cost any additional hardware!

No in all seriousness its an implementation of my algorithm I invented for algorithmic trading.

The app is now officially 100% multithreaded with very little thread contention.. Man that wall of 100% CPUs (32 of them) is a beautiful sight.

#programming #Python #algorithms #multithreading #threads #threading #Python3

@GodfreyHendrix Algorithmic trading, specifically an algorithm i developed that is applied to that purpose. It works in real time and sequentially, so not something most people would think could be parallelized, and for real-time it didnt need to be. But was far too slow for backtesting so parallelization was needed to backtest.

@Zest

Yup relativity as a whole is definately pretty much experimentally proven at this point even if not all of its individual components have direct evidence.

@Science

@Zest

The riddle/paradox can be found here:

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

> but either way what I'm curious about is why saying that the things literally happen at different times relative to different places makes more sense than just saying "well the light took this long to get here so we're just seeing it now".

The reason is because its the only way the other things make sense without there being a paradox... If time **actually** dilates (and we have experimental evidence that proves that, it was proven on GPS systems for example) that means the actual time expiernced by different frames of reference must be actually different. If the time is actually and literally different then clearly the events must also occur at different times.

Because all 4 concepts, time dilation, velocity dilation, length constriction, and simultaneity are all interdependent on each other then either they are all an illusion , or they are all real, if you mix and match it you get logical paradoxes that make no sense. we can and have proven that time dilation is real as well as velocity dilation, as we can prove it in particle accelerators, so we know that the others must be real as well.

We have also seen length contraction inside colliders (in this experiment it was observed that gold ions were contracted to a thin disc like shape: https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/modern-physics-view-of-length-contraction.575495/page-3 )

However directly and experimentally confirming the ladder paradox itself, thats much harder and I know of no direct evidence of that. But as i said with the other elements being well proven it is the only logically consistent conclusion and matches the math.

@Science

So my app is running only across 32 cores so only 32 threads in action (well its python so multiprocessing)... yet it has 3,201 lock objects total instantiated to accomplish that with minimal read/write contention....

I can honestly say this is the greatest number of thread locks instantiated at a single time that I have ever needed in an application before.

#programming #Python #algorithms #multithreading #threads #threading #Python3