"Duuuuuuhhh" moments in mental administration

[azurelunatic]

So how many billion of the processes that Marah handles are outsourced, because she doesn't trust anyone in the Department to do them?

And are those functions tightly or loosely coupled?

Tightly, durrrr. So that it takes reprogramming to do them without Darkside, either actual or virtual. And I have a hard time insourcing it, because of privacy/judgement/perspective issues, and since it's a tightly coupled interface, finding a new outsource is a bitch and a half, either one that fits the coupling or hacking the coupling to fit a new outsource.

So then, when that task queue is left unhandled, because it's programmed for pauses when the outsource isn't to hand, it overflows if left too long, and Bad Things Happen.

I outsmart myselfves sometimes...

Comments

[iroshi.livejournal.com]

*sigh* Give me a hollar if you need Assistance with any of this.

[azurelunatic]

Don't think I will, too much: now that I've discovered that it's the stacks overflowing, I can run the tasks through the Virtual Darkside and then see if there's anything that needs to be taken care of that we *can't* insource.

Evidently I make a clearer picture of things when asked by a curious computer geek how the hell it all works, because that's my metaphor.

[sithjawa.livejournal.com]

Glad that was useful for you too.

Computers make a good metaphor.

Here there should probably be some joke about the world being Turing-complete, meaning you can do anything you can do on a computer in it, but I'm too lazy to think of a good one.

[azurelunatic]

*giggle*

Feel free to ask weird questions at any time. You are sufficiently Trusted that weird questions are not interpreted as nosy in any format, just curious, and will likely be answered.

Even if they are silly weird questions.

And, referential back to the discussion last night of friends-priveleges, and expansion sets for certain extras from the standard friends set, you've certainly got enough access to ask some of the questions that I might not answer in as extreme detail if they were coming, say, from boojum.