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did folding@home accomplish anything meaningful
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Apr 25, 2016 22:48
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it generates some laughs when comparing its lifetime usage to buttcoin and what that says about the world
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Apr 25, 2016 22:50
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remember when people would join folding@home or SETI teams and put stats in their sigs remember when idiots would get fired for installing folding/SETI clients on work computers
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Apr 25, 2016 23:14
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SO DEMANDING posted:remember when people would join folding@home or SETI teams and put stats in their sigs yes SO DEMANDING posted:remember when idiots would get fired for installing folding/SETI clients on work computers yes 
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Apr 25, 2016 23:47
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SO DEMANDING posted:remember when people would join folding@home or SETI teams and put stats in their sigs hell yeah let me see all them ets
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Apr 25, 2016 23:50
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it made my laundry nice and tidy
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Apr 25, 2016 23:50
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HAIL eSATA-n posted:it generates some laughs when comparing its lifetime usage to buttcoin and what that says about the world lol has anyone calculated this out
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Apr 25, 2016 23:54
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HAIL eSATA-n posted:buttcoin
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Apr 26, 2016 00:11
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Iridium posted:yes lol were you fired or did you have to fire someone
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Apr 26, 2016 00:21
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mishaq posted:lol has anyone calculated this out I'm also interested in this go humans go
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Apr 26, 2016 00:58
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https://scholar.google.ca/scholar?q=distributed+folding+protein&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=distributed+AND+folding+AND+protein didn't care to spend more time working on better search terms but yeah it looks like it didn't amount to all that much
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Apr 26, 2016 01:07
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i would totally download a screensaver that looks like folding@home or SETI@home
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Apr 26, 2016 01:11
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yes op all the proteins have been folded and now we need to figure out how to put them back how they were
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Apr 26, 2016 01:11
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SO DEMANDING posted:lol were you fired or did you have to fire someone worked with someone who got canned his workload became mine, starting with removing that poo poo.
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Apr 26, 2016 01:52
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...like what do you even get fired for, idgi
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Apr 26, 2016 02:05
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Iridium posted:worked with someone who got canned whew, otherwise you would have had to look for all those its on your own
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Apr 26, 2016 02:08
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:...like what do you even get fired for, idgi depending on the timeframe nothing, but if it was recent maybe the electrical waste of running otherwise dormant machines for a third party network at full power all day
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Apr 26, 2016 02:09
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:...like what do you even get fired for, idgi a few things came into play there, back in those halcyon days of the early 00s. nobody noticed at first that it was installed on a couple dozen hugely overburdened Windows 2000 shared web servers, which were already being crushed under the weight of ~200 websites hosting the garbage code of a fleet of amateur old school ASP web devs. but then he installed it on some of the dedicated servers for the clients who paid a ridiculous rate to our fly by night web hosting op to host their scrub tier site segregated from all the shared hosting plan unwashed masses. a few of those folks had demanded (and been granted, because what do we care) RDP admin access to their own servers. and one of them noticed this SETI poo poo in task manager diverting precious resources from their 12 page web site. and when they called to complain management actually listened, because it's not like they had any actual vision for a widespread corporate strategy. they just did whatever they could to scrape that money out of people, and to keep those people happy. Including the one that would call up, admit he was drunk, and hit on another of my coworkers regularly cuz he thought she sounded sexy. but dude complained, management polled us all as to what it was, dude owned up, etc. i grumble, but it distracted from the fact that i was running a BT client on our phat pipe at the time and playing Half Life literally 6 of the 8 hours i worked on second shift every day.
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Apr 26, 2016 02:26
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jfc computer janitors
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Apr 26, 2016 02:32
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GameCube posted:jfc computer janitors yeah, good times. fun fact our overall master admin password when i started there was "elite" then a main admin left and they decided to protect it by reversing it to "etile".
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Apr 26, 2016 02:34
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SO DEMANDING posted:remember when people would join folding@home or SETI teams and put stats in their sigs would past tense tee hee no seriously get that poo poo off my network e: if you make me explain to an old person what bitcoins are i think i should receive all of your saved vacation time as punishment/payment (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Apr 26, 2016 03:23
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when has anything that required the small, collective, effortless input of the masses every amounted to anything but enough about the forums
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Apr 26, 2016 04:37
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flakeloaf posted:would lol at the loving probe praise be to chome 
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Apr 26, 2016 09:14
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Folding@home is just as useless as the rest of the Internet. Sorry OP.
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Apr 26, 2016 12:09
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Virion posted:depending on the timeframe nothing, but if it was recent maybe the electrical waste of running otherwise dormant machines for a third party network at full power all day just run it in the cloud if you're concerned about electrical waste
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Apr 26, 2016 12:32
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flakeloaf posted:
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Apr 26, 2016 12:33
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I'm going to find the biggest mersenne prime and you guys will be so jealous
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Apr 26, 2016 15:03
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Iridium posted:but then he installed it on some of the dedicated servers for the clients who paid a ridiculous rate to our fly by night web hosting op to host their scrub tier site segregated from all the shared hosting plan unwashed masses. a few of those folks had demanded (and been granted, because what do we care) RDP admin access to their own servers. and one of them noticed this SETI poo poo in task manager diverting precious resources from their 12 page web site. you should be fired just for being dumb enough to pull this stunt
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Apr 26, 2016 15:34
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what's the hierarchy of say seti vs distributed.net folding@home I forget what else , world community grid projects was the last one I looked at
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Apr 26, 2016 17:14
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lol you could install it on a ps3
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Apr 26, 2016 17:18
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the yeti posted:what's the hierarchy of say seti vs distributed.net folding@home I forget what else , world community grid projects was the last one I looked at I used to run wcg for clean water (somehow) during winter because my room was always really cold. I think most people run that stuff just because you get some numbers and those numbers go up
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Apr 26, 2016 17:50
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seti is about on the same level as mining bitcoins all the others at least do something useful, even if only vaguely
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Apr 26, 2016 18:02
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lol, i ran folding@home on my frankenputer that i hacked together from a bunch of dumpstered towers the local bank threw out back when i was a little goonlet and couldnt figure out why my room was so loving hot all the time.
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Apr 26, 2016 19:13
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:lol you could install it on a ps3 I ran it on my PS3 for awhile, cause it's not like I could do anything else with it.
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Apr 26, 2016 21:03
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it turned me into a huge loving nerd so yeah
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Apr 26, 2016 21:05
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:lol you could install it on a ps3 it came preinstalled on launch ps3s i wish i could have been in the meeting where that was decided i couldn't have understood the meeting because it would have been in japanese
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Apr 26, 2016 21:48
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I saw a Reddit thread for this a while ago and it's been cited in a whole lot of medical papers I guess?
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Apr 26, 2016 21:53
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F@H basically invented GPGPU
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and https://folding.stanford.edu/home/papers is a lot of papers
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