I don't get what's supposed to be wrong here, it works on my machine
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This is the first time I enjoy a meme of this format / situation.
I am feeling confused with this meme. I am going to escalate this to my manager, secretly hopong he'll tell me to do something else while he passes this on to the one dude in my team who's worked with multithreading that one time.
I’d like to play ho-pong too.
Knock knock
Race condition!
Who's there?
You have NO IDEA how hard my autism hates you!
vroom vroom, race conditions 🏎️
good one! i have to admit I didn't get it until I was browsing the comments and then it hit me 😀
I'm embarrassed to say I only finally got it now. After reading the joke last night. -_-;
I'm actually an expert in multiprocessing, which is just as good
Just out of curiosity, can locks be used in multiprocessing?
This feels like AI
In case you are serious: It's probably not.
When you're not careful with parallel processing / multithreading, you can run into something called a "race condition", where results of parallel computations end up in the wrong order because some were finished faster than others.
The joke here is that whoever "programmed" this commic is bad at parallel progmming and got the bubbles in the wrong order because of that.
The image makes perfect sense if you read it in the order 3, 1, 2.
Apart from the fact that bubble 1 and 2 point to the wrong person.
I think that’s part of the joke too. Like the whole comic has been written out of order due to race conditions; rather than just the father represents race conditions.
It’s one degree of humour too far though, if that’s the case, doesn’t really land.
It definitely landed for me. The aspect of one thread coming out of a totally different routine for no reason was extra funny.
Yes, if you reorder only the text and not the whole bubble it's also correct. =)
Oooh. Thanks for that, makes more sense now.
The image makes perfect sense if you read it in the order 3, 1, 2.
OH!
I was assuming the joke was that 1 and 3 got swapped around. Because it doesn't really make sense for 2 to be mixed up, considering it's from a different person entirely...
Which meant that the joke just made no sense, because swapping 1 and 3 is just as nonsense as the original order.
🤦🏽♀️ Thanks for explaining, my brain must have corrected the race condition.
Regarding threads: I have had good experience with using thread safe queues everywhere to exchange data between threads, it's the right tool in many cases, but I doubt queues to be useful when coding for performance.
Umm, queueing is standard practice particularly when a task is performance intensive and needs limited resources.
Basically any programming language using any kind of asynchronous runtime is using queues in their scheduler, as well.
Could be I was not clear when I wrote performance, I am talking about High Performance Computing, where you want to spend all CPU cycles on solving your problem. While taking Amdal's Law into account. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law
Ah gotcha, fair enough. Definitely depends on the workload. If you have compute you want to dedicate to solely to a single task, have at it.
lol your operating system is using queues and buffers with multiple threads everywhere.
Correct, and your point is?
My point is you don’t need to doubt the usefulness of queues for performance.
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Not a lot of programmers on programmerhumor these days are there?
Half of the people posting here act like they are terrified of using threads. Then someone is explaining what a race condition is and they get 100+ upvotes like they just solved world hunger.
I don't think it is, the joke is a bit poorly executed, but if you look at the text, the speach bubbles were made white by hand