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‘Why let mere mortals decide CPU priorities when the cosmos can guide us?’ asks the developer.
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The gravitational pull exerted on the baby caused by the midwife’s mass exceeds the gravitational pull of all planets combined by far.
I just can’t take people seriously who believe in bullshit like astronomy - so while this may be a fun project, sadly there are going to be people who honestly think this is a thing.
Finally a platform home for the Etsy Witches!
CovenOS, a fork of TempleOS
Ya know what, could it really be any worse than just letting AI create a scheduler? I’m on board for using it. No more Deadline or Fair Queuing for this guy!
Be glad they didn’t include Neptune, Uranus or Pluto.
Imagine some system task running like your computer was a potato. Then you look for the reason, and it’s because the task is a CPU hog, and its associated planet is in Cancer/Scorpio/Pisces. Now imagine the associated planet was Pluto, that spends ~20 years per sign. (Note some astrology schools do take those planets into account.)
In fact even system daemons and kernel threads (Saturn) will be a mess, 2.5 years per zodiacal sign.
So yeah, fucking dumb idea. But brilliant at the same time.
Pluto would just be a total clean reinstall of the OS required
This made me think on the potential roles the three outer planets* (Uranus, Neptune, Pluto) in the scheduler.
- Uranus: looking at things from a new angle. Innovation, intuition, ruptures with tradition. Higher octave of Mercury; so if Mercury is ruling network and I/O tasks, perhaps Uranus could rule specifically data creation and writing?
- Neptune: elevating things past the concrete, into the abstract. Inspiration, illusion, refinement. Higher octave of Venus; so if Venus rules desktop and UI processes, Neptune could focus on the windowing system.
- Pluto: changing the nature and “hidden-ness” of the things. Metamorphosis, unearthing, cycles of [con/de]struction. Higher octave of Mars; so if Mars handles CPU hogs, Pluto could handle specifically things that have to do with cryptography.
*before the “ackshyually” crowd points this out, the word “planet” in Astrology is used to convey any moving (from our PoV) celestial object. It includes things Astronomy wouldn’t consider as planets; such as the Sun (a star), the Moon (a satellite), and Pluto (nowadays a dwarf planet). So the situation is a lot like tomatoes being fruits, you know? “Yes” or “no” depends on the definition, and the definition is built around a purpose.
Also I’d like to point out that, although I learned a fair bit of Astrology in my teens and 20s, I don’t take it seriously. It’s mostly babble, like tarot; but just like tarot, it’s fun babble.
Interesting perspective. Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto are considered generational planets, while the inner planets are considered personal.
Extrapolating to the OS, it would be interesting to translate to OS tasks (I think more death and rebirth of Pluto for restarts. I wonder if Neptune would be abstract of an illusion than windows and the design elements that can make it like CSS/Javascript (shudders.) Uranus would have to be scheduled updates, we all know how weird out of date software, drivers, etc acts.
Maybe the user could put in their birth chart information and it would give daily updates on what to focus on that day outside of the OS based on how the planets are hitting their chart.
Fun thought experiments. I practice astrology and also like to babble.
Imagine scheduling your tasks to Uranus.
I don’t know…
Merl?
Look at the sky…
“This is beyond science.”
What other weird schedulers could we do, crontab for mars? Seconds to midnight? Death rate?
Waiting on Linus’ response… eagerly!
