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Old 2014-08-30, 02:44   #45
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I wasn't alluding to any particular post, no.
... I see little value in adding a system to reserve that work. I feel like there isn't enough of an organized effort to warrant a reservations system for tens of thousands of factoring jobs.
Ok, your worry that work units might suddenly and unnecessarily be reserved has presumably been sorted, yet I can't imagine how that fear was spawned.
I was at pains in my last message to agree that masses of unreserved work in outer reaches is not a bad thing, so I can't think why you imagined that I might be troubled about such business.
My position remains, that there is no symmetric mechanism for anybody to request assigned work subject to explored level.
I would have occasion to invoke such discrimination filter if it were available.
It is currently very awkward to assign work limited by depth in a non-virgin region where different contributors at different times have created a ragged edge of exploration.
I haven't subscribed, but I suspect that one can exercise such discrimination for assignments via GPU72.
I'm off tripping for a couple of weeks, Macau, Hong Kong, Beijing.
Done all that before, but Beijing will be very different to the last time I saw it.
I'll progress my reservations upon return, in the meantime my equipment will remain cold!
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Old 2014-08-30, 13:45   #46
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bit of a fag
Only the leafs, or parts of the trunk too?
(this reminds me of some chat program I used in the past which was replacing vulgar English words with inoffensive stuff, it was a big source of fun when newcomers joined, we used to talk in Romanian and we had to build strange grammar constructions to go around that "feature", one of the most bothering part was replacing the "cum", used a lot in Romanian interrogative )
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Old 2014-08-30, 22:27   #47
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Only the leafs, or parts of the trunk too?
(this reminds me of some chat program I used in the past which was replacing vulgar English words with inoffensive stuff, it was a big source of fun when newcomers joined, we used to talk in Romanian and we had to build strange grammar constructions to go around that "feature", one of the most bothering part was replacing the "cum", used a lot in Romanian interrogative )
I could have linked something like this or this but didn't want the THINKPOL to remove it as not being relevant...
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Old 2014-08-31, 16:08   #48
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fag 1 (fhttp://img.tfd.com/hm/GIF/abreve.gifg)n.1. a. A student at a British public school who is required to perform menial tasks for a student in a higher class.
b. A drudge.

2. Chiefly British Fatiguing or tedious work; drudgery.

v. fagged, fag·ging, fags
v.intr.1. To work to exhaustion; toil.
2. To function as the servant of another student in a British public school.

v.tr. To exhaust; weary: Four hours on the tennis court fagged me out.

[From fag, to droop (obsolete), perhaps from Middle English fagge; see fag end.]
fag 2 (fhttp://img.tfd.com/hm/GIF/abreve.gifg)n. Slang A cigarette.

[Short for fag end.]
fag 3 (fhttp://img.tfd.com/hm/GIF/abreve.gifg)n. Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a homosexual man.

[Short for faggot.]
fag (fæɡ) n1. a boring or wearisome task: it's a fag having to walk all that way.
2. (Education) Brit (esp formerly) a young public school boy who performs menial chores for an older boy or prefect

vb, fags, fagging or fagged3. (when: tr, often foll by out) to become or cause to become exhausted by hard toil or work
4. (usually intr) Brit to do or cause to do menial chores in a public school: Brown fags for Lee.

[C18: of obscure origin]
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