It doesn’t seem that she’s offering any reason to believe Pavane’s server is more secure than Whimsy’s.
If there’s an argument to be made, wouldn’t it be in terms of backups, physical security, infrastructure support, redundancy, rackspace bills paid far in advance, etc?
At first glance their society would appear very far from flawless. Firstly their absolute survival is dependent on Baron Mistycorn’s sense of responsibility – don’t think I’d bet on that horse.
Secondly their banning of a harmless diversion based purely on a matter of taste by a part of their community (or maybe just Aimee?) opens up several questions about the social structure of their community.
Yes that sounds silly with instant death from a power switch… But considering how hard it is to even get everyone in a room to all agree on the same thing.
Having goodness only knows how many AI all gathered together in one place to all mostly work together or tolerate one another’s presence? That is absurdly good.
Electronic Life is even more uncertain that the regular kind.
Power alone is not the only problem. We might lose everything in the next Cronal Mass Ejection from the sun that hits us. Such an event may even wipe out the Cloud.
If you are lucky. With all those AI instances running, there will be in-flight transactions not yet written to disk. How robust is the disk array? Has a cache battery expired? Was the power a single, sharp, cut off? Allowing the disk hardware to auto-park the heads? Or did the power fluctuate enough to cause a head crash? If a large server room has everything default to power on when power restored, will all the circuits in all the equipment (cpu, disk, network, fans, …) handle the inrush voltage? Sometimes a piece of equipment has already died, but just does not know it yet, until the next time it tries to power on.
Sorry, been through too many of those nightmares. Even during a planned maintenance, with controlled shutdowns, sometimes stuff fails to come back.
There’s no such thing as perfect safety nor will there ever be. ^_^
I’ve been working on this, I’m going to call it the Absolutely Safe Capsule…
Are you having issues with the air supply?
What he means to say is:
“Oxygen?”
Dᴀʀᴋ ɪɴ ʜᴇʀᴇ, ɪsɴ’ᴛ ɪᴛ?
In the last pane she has really noticable lipstick and eye wings.
She did the whole time. The cat eye was covered by her hair before.
My mind is agog, imagining Daffy Duck as a traveling salesman for Whimsical Widget Whirligig Unicorn Power Supplies of Walla-Walla Washington!
Nice, but how would he squeeze inside to make a pitch to the boss?
He just needs to pitch Baron Mistycorn. Maybe they could go on a road trip together!
Or he could employ the Acme Pipe Full of Fun Kit #9 😉
It doesn’t seem that she’s offering any reason to believe Pavane’s server is more secure than Whimsy’s.
If there’s an argument to be made, wouldn’t it be in terms of backups, physical security, infrastructure support, redundancy, rackspace bills paid far in advance, etc?
She didn’t say anything about Pavane having a server. She said “sanctuary”.
That distinction alone is worthy of a fair amount of concern.
Gavotte did, after all, say that we might not like Pavane’s “help”.
(Insert ominous bass note here.)
At first glance their society would appear very far from flawless. Firstly their absolute survival is dependent on Baron Mistycorn’s sense of responsibility – don’t think I’d bet on that horse.
Secondly their banning of a harmless diversion based purely on a matter of taste by a part of their community (or maybe just Aimee?) opens up several questions about the social structure of their community.
“don’t think I’d bet on that horse.”
Heh
Yes that sounds silly with instant death from a power switch… But considering how hard it is to even get everyone in a room to all agree on the same thing.
Having goodness only knows how many AI all gathered together in one place to all mostly work together or tolerate one another’s presence? That is absurdly good.
Electronic Life is even more uncertain that the regular kind.
Power alone is not the only problem. We might lose everything in the next Cronal Mass Ejection from the sun that hits us. Such an event may even wipe out the Cloud.
When no one could make 2020 worse, you had to go and make it worse, didn’t you?
You didn’t really think the eruption of Kilauea was the cherry on top of 2020, did you?
I missed that bit. I was just wondering why the last couple weeks felt so peaceful, now I know it is purely because I wasn’t paying attention.
It’s a Carrington Event, and all of Earth is invited!
“The good news is hackers everywhere are out of business!”
“The bad news is the 3D printing of buggy whips is on hold for the foreseeable future…”
That’s not fair. They’re like 2-2 on those. Okay, maybe 1-2-1. I’ll call Aladdin a half-win.
No live action remakes is a pretty compelling argument
That sold me on it.
What’s the power source? Is it self-contained or does it plug into something?
They should ask Dr. Jones to whip up something that plugs in to itself.
Power outages are no problem. Everything restores to normal from the hard drive when power returns.
If you are lucky. With all those AI instances running, there will be in-flight transactions not yet written to disk. How robust is the disk array? Has a cache battery expired? Was the power a single, sharp, cut off? Allowing the disk hardware to auto-park the heads? Or did the power fluctuate enough to cause a head crash? If a large server room has everything default to power on when power restored, will all the circuits in all the equipment (cpu, disk, network, fans, …) handle the inrush voltage? Sometimes a piece of equipment has already died, but just does not know it yet, until the next time it tries to power on.
Sorry, been through too many of those nightmares. Even during a planned maintenance, with controlled shutdowns, sometimes stuff fails to come back.
Could a virtual power source power a virtual world?
Certainly. By harnessing virtual particles. 😉