I am developing a php application with laravel. In my application I need to do some data fetching from a number of servers. In order to speedup the results I have to send those requests in the same time. I've found laravel queue but the problem is that the I need to get information back from the queue. Another solution is php pthreads but I'm having a very hard time installing it. Is there any way (multithreading / multiprocessing) to do seprate jobs async.
Is there a realistic way of implementing a multi-threaded model in PHP whether truly, or just simulating it. Some time back it was suggested that you could force the operating system to load another instance of the PHP executable and handle other simultaneous processes.  The problem with this is that when the PHP code finished executing the PHP instance remains in memory because there is no way to kill it from within PHP.  So if you are simulating several threads you can imagine whats going to happen.  So I am still looking for a way multi-threading can be done or simulated effectively from within PHP. Any ideas?
How can I schedule timer to power on and off device? This song by The Rolling Stones, "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction". As a non-native speaker, I always wondered what's the exact meaning of this phrase?   Is it "I'm not getting any satisfaction" (this seems to be the most widely met translation; double negation used where single negation should have been used). Or is it "I want my satisfaction, I cannot leave without getting some" (makes much more sense to me).   Or is it something else? I've always had troubles understanding double negation as applied to English. First I was taught it's a mistake to use double negation at all, and then I see it everywhere. How to prove a matrix is nilpotent? Given an $n\times n$ upper triangular matrix $A$ with zero on main diagonal, show that $A^n = 0$.   I did some matrix operation and noticed that the diagonal moves up, ultimately all entries will be zero. Is there a nicer way to do it? Preparing for metric dominance: alternatives to idioms using imperial units Related to , are there any metric alternatives to these idioms:        He inches closer to her.   a. meters? - too far   b. centimeters? - too weird   c. scoots? - don't use units     By then, she was miles away from him.   a. far away? - again, don't use units   b. kilometers away? - maybe   c. light-years away? - probably better, preserving the hyperbole     This is an amazing foot-long sandwich.   a. half-a-meter-long? - not accurate   b. dong-long? - even less accurate. It rhymes, though   c. about-a-third-of-a-meter-long? - pretty accurate, but not very marketable     I went the whole nine yards.   a. the whole 8.23 meters? - ...No   b. all the way? - again, don't use units   An ounce of common sense is worth a pound of theory.   a. A gram/a tonne? - preserve the weight comparison, but even more hyperbolic   b. A little/a lot? - again, don't use units        Any suggestions? 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One seemingly to stdout and one to stderr, since running these commands:  { echo foo &gt;&amp;2 | grep foo } &gt;/dev/null   and:  { echo foo &gt;&amp;2 | grep foo } 2&gt;/dev/null   both just print foo once. Simple homework question about normally distributed variables The question states:      Consider a set of random variables $X_i$, where $i=1,...n$. Each $X_i$ is   normally distributed with mean $0$ and variance $1$, i.e. $X_i$ are $\mathcal N(0,1)$.   What is the mean and the variance of the random variable $Y$, where   $Y=X_1+...+X_n$.   How do I do this? Here is the situation that came up:  Player 1 controls a creature enchanted with  and two +1/+1 counters. On Player 2's turn, they cast  to take control of the creature, and then attack with it. The attack triggers the Ordeal, putting another +1/+1 counter on it. Now that it has three counters, it is sacrificed and a player gains 10 life.  Which player sacrifices the enchantment and gains 10 life? 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Still, at a power factor of 1 my maximum current in the transformer would be sqrt(2) * 2 Amps.   But what if my power factor is abysmally low (ie in a DC rectifier) due to harmonic distortion and while I still draw 2A-RMS I have brief current spikes of 15 Amps? Surely the transformer's magnetics couldn't handle these spikes as I'd expect the core would saturate.  My question is what is the practical limit for VA ratings of transformers? Would brief current spikes that reduce to only 2A-RMS in this case be fine? Obviously the secondary/primary copper losses play a part in the rating but how do the magnetics factor in?  I ask this because I am designing a simple bench power supply using a 125VA transformer with a 24Vrms secondary and am trying to figure out how much power I can draw before the current spikes into the inductor are too much for the transformer. I also don't want to have to resort to active PFC as I don't want to risk messing up any HVAC PCB design.  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