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Adolin




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why arent you folding at home?
#22124523 - 08/21/15 09:07 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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you fucking heard what i said. why arent you?
the shroomery isnt even in the top 100 donating teams. what the fuck is wrong with you people? dont you want to cure cancer?
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Shroomslip
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Re: why arent you folding at home? [Re: Adolin]
#22124859 - 08/21/15 10:34 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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I used to (on multiple forums) but after reinstalls and shit I just didn't bother with it anymore.
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luvdemboomers
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Re: why arent you folding at home? [Re: Shroomslip]
#22124878 - 08/21/15 10:40 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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im lost
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Re: why arent you folding at home? [Re: luvdemboomers] 1
#22124883 - 08/21/15 10:41 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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I run on a shitty laptop. I don't have the CPU resources to donate.
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https://folding.stanford.edu/
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MorphinTime
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Re: why arent you folding at home? [Re: Adolin]
#22124901 - 08/21/15 10:45 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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I just haven't got around to installing it on my new computer.
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Shroomslip
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I only understand the general premise. It's basically a whole network of people that donate their unused processing power to (in the background) study the folding process (though it is not limited to that, but that is where the name comes from): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_folding.
Beyond that I really have no idea how it really works or benefits anything. Has it actually be credited to discovering treatments of diseases or really done anything more than just potentially expand our knowledge on how these things work?
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With my face against the floor I can’t see who knocked me out of the way. I don’t want to get back up but I have to so it might as well be today. Nothing appeals to me no one feels like me, I’m too busy being calm to disappear. I’m in no shape to be alone contrary to the shit that you might hear. You can't wake up, this is not a dream. You're part of a machine, you are not a human being With your face all made up, living on a screen. Low on self esteem, so you run on gasoline
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Re: why arent you folding at home? [Re: Adolin]
#22124906 - 08/21/15 10:46 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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I was thinking about this a couple of weeks ago. It seems like there used to be a lot more people on the shroomery doing it.
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Gresh said: Don't you want to cure cancer?
Ah, no, not really.
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akira_akuma
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Re: why arent you folding at home? [Re: Artnotwar]
#22125239 - 08/22/15 12:41 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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when installed i assume this will only use what isn't allocated for my browser, players, ect, and will be able to be shut down if i didn't want to use it?
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Shroomslip
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Re: why arent you folding at home? [Re: akira_akuma]
#22125252 - 08/22/15 12:46 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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By design it only uses what your current system isn't. On total idle, the processing power it's taking is going to be pretty high, and when you start doing stuff that requires more, it will start taking less. It's meant to completely uneffect your experience on the computer. And yes, you can turn it off.
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akira_akuma
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Re: why arent you folding at home? [Re: Shroomslip]
#22125425 - 08/22/15 02:37 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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i'll take your word for it; sounds excellent, as long as i don't see any performance issues. i'll try it out.
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Beanhead
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Re: why arent you folding at home? [Re: Adolin]
#22125546 - 08/22/15 04:37 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Gresh said: you fucking heard what i said. why arent you?
the shroomery isnt even in the top 100 donating teams. what the fuck is wrong with you people? dont you want to cure cancer?
I'm selfish and need my RAM/CPU/GPU to run 100 clients/bots/scripts simultaneously
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koraks
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Re: why arent you folding at home? [Re: Adolin]
#22125561 - 08/22/15 05:10 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Gresh said: you fucking heard what i said. why arent you?
I used to for a brief while, but I got annoyed at the fact that I was running my hardware at 100% 24/7 wasting loads of energy. It's vastly more efficient to do these calculations in a data center with hardware that is optimized for this purpose.
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Re: why arent you folding at home? [Re: koraks]
#22125570 - 08/22/15 05:18 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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I remember when nearly everyone had little dna strains under their user names
I've used both folding at home and SETI in the past but not currently
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