Hmm… Is this like that black mirror episode where the vet thought he lived in a beautiful house, but was in fact a hovel because of the government implant changing what he could see?
Just a shiny male toy…
Hmm… Is this like that black mirror episode where the vet thought he lived in a beautiful house, but was in fact a hovel because of the government implant changing what he could see?
Brush yo teeth bruh.
Just kidding 🤪
The rest of us will do what we can. Maybe others will join, maybe not. Onwards we go.
Gonna be a long, hard boat ride.
First wall problems compounded by geometric constraints, fueling, magnetic & corresponding mechanical complexities, particularly over long periods of time where material fatigue sets in due to coils applying heavy, dynamic loading… there’s a lot against tokamaks.
They seem to impress people, and we could all use novel research into MHD. But @[email protected] is kind of correct.
I like taking care of kids, pets and eating edibles just fine, thanks.
All of what you’re saying seems correct. I think this is more of a meta discussion, on how (in this case) retries, even with exponential back off, aren’t a solution by themselves when you look at the system overall. There are interesting hidden caveats to any common solutions, this is one I personally wasn’t aware of.
Practically, adding a timeout budget so that the clients themselves just error out (forcing a manual refresh) sorta accomplishes the same as what you’re positing.
Hmm… I’d say that was an obvious example to cause the situation, the real point was exposing the more subtle problems with feedback loops.
What happens if the server in question was at 80% capacity, and due to hardware faults, that leads to 100% utilization? Can you reconfigure your services if there’s a cascading overload through enough of the system without actually adding to the system load? What do you do about the fact that these loops gets ever more powerful and sudden the larger the system?
The author seemed to be suggesting that we carefully consider how to avoid open feedback loops, and build stability in. This article clued me in that stability problems can be borne from “industry standard” advice if you don’t carefully think about it.
Very interesting, thanks for this article. It’s funny how I notice ever more repetition of phenomena through different branches of engineering; metastable failure caused by feedback loops is possible both in mechanical and electrical engineering. Named differently though, resonance and ringing, respectively.
Good article, thanks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC1C0lH1SqM for the werewolf version
Dayum. How often do they need refilling? With rebco magnets out there, surprised we’re not using more ln2 instead.
Maybe just older machines?
Been enjoying it up here, personally. Hope you guys enjoy the stay.
Gimme dat Buick 8. Man I loved that book.
I want to lick her cheeks.
I’m really not about this. Do better.
I really, really dislike the guy, but if he didn’t actually use imagery from the film… Does this suit actually have standing?
C’mon guys, cripes. What are we doing here, feeding lawyers for the sake of feeding lawyers??