Timeline for Why would having more mages to conduct a spell not make it faster?
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| Jan 23, 2019 at 12:02 | comment | added | Nahshon paz | The project for researching a spell that will allow 9 women to make a baby in one month had gathered a lots of investors, was well managed and had the best minds in the world of spell development, but was canceled due to negative feedbacks from market research (As one test subject put it: "The humanity!") | |
| Dec 19, 2018 at 14:45 | comment | added | Asoub | @Giter first, some spells "might" need multiple people for stamina: it is necessary only when the stamina( or Orogone) needed is just too much for one person: they are not requirement (a caster with super-human orogone capicity might not need additionnal caster at all, as far as I understand what OP said). Second: every spell can use additionnal caster for it to be less tiring, and third: every additionnal caster adds chances for the spell to be a success (while it doesn't speed it up). These two conditions don't match this metaphor (or at least it is not clearly explain how) | |
| Dec 18, 2018 at 16:18 | comment | added | Giter | @Asoub: Since the spells need multiple people for stamina then the metaphor still holds up if you look at the extra people like a requirement and not an addition: they aren't coffee or a break room to let the developer work better/faster, they're the computer, monitors, internet access, etc. to let the developer work at all. Just like giving a developer a second keyboard won't make them type any faster, giving the mage a second assistant won't make the part of the ritual where they meditate from dusk to dawn happen any faster. | |
| Dec 18, 2018 at 15:20 | comment | added | Asoub | I'm not really a big fan of the "mythical man month" metaphor here (even though it's the first thing I thought too), as OP precisely specified that some spells requieres multiple people to be there for stamina. Not downvoting because the answer still stands, but the metaphor doesn't really adress this point (ofc every metaphor has its limits): you can't really add people to software development to add energy to the "main dev" ? (well, coffee or cheerleaders would work but ..) | |
| Dec 15, 2018 at 13:15 | comment | added | cmaster - reinstate monica | @kwc Now you are cooking with black magic... | |
| Dec 15, 2018 at 2:54 | comment | added | forest | A good way to explain it would be specifying that every subsequent stage of the spell relies on the completion of the prior stage. | |
| Dec 14, 2018 at 19:57 | comment | added | LampPost | @Chronocidal This makes sense. So say you have a sub-par heating system for the oven, if you got multiple sub-par heaters it would take some of the burden off of the original to keep the oven at the necessary temperature. | |
| Dec 14, 2018 at 17:54 | comment | added | Russell McMahon | @kwc It's a power law. Generally your goose is well and truly cooked (and you look like a turkey) at anything more than a few minutes over about 600 K. To establish what the actual law is you may have to appeal to a higher power. The requisite 12 step process, while perhaps maintaining anonymity, is usually found to be too chronoextensive to be amenable to application to this process. Probably. | |
| Dec 14, 2018 at 8:08 | comment | added | Matthieu M. | See also: Amdhal's Law. | |
| Dec 14, 2018 at 8:06 | comment | added | Matthieu M. | @kwc: Charcoal isn't that tasty though... | |
| Dec 14, 2018 at 5:22 | comment | added | kwc | @Chronocidal well of course not, you have to convert to Kelvin: 5 hours at 453 K = 1.5 hours at 1510 K (1237°C). | |
| Dec 13, 2018 at 17:08 | comment | added | Seth R | @Gliter, I believe it was used in "The Mythical Man Month" by Fred Brooks, essential book for any project manager (or anyone who has to work with a project manager) | |
| Dec 13, 2018 at 16:07 | comment | added | The Square-Cube Law | @Chronocidal for a given value of cook, you mean. | |
| Dec 13, 2018 at 15:52 | comment | added | Chronocidal | Similarly: If it takes 5 hours to cook a turkey at 180°C, it doesn't mean you can cook it in an hour and a half at 600°C | |
| Dec 13, 2018 at 15:00 | comment | added | The Square-Cube Law | I was writing my answer as you posted this. +1 for the ninja'ing of that joke. | |
| Dec 13, 2018 at 14:49 | history | edited | Giter | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 13, 2018 at 14:48 | history | answered | Giter | CC BY-SA 4.0 |