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2020-12-22

by shaenon on December 22, 2020 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Off to the Fair
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  1. Towering Barbarian
    December 22, 2020, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    There’s no such thing as perfect safety nor will there ever be. ^_^

    • David Simon
      December 22, 2020, 12:52 am | # | Reply

      I’ve been working on this, I’m going to call it the Absolutely Safe Capsule…

      • gyrre
        December 22, 2020, 8:21 pm | # | Reply

        Are you having issues with the air supply?

      • Semper Solus
        December 22, 2020, 11:07 pm | # | Reply

        What he means to say is:
        “Oxygen?”

        • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
          December 30, 2020, 10:29 am | # | Reply

          Dᴀʀᴋ ɪɴ ʜᴇʀᴇ, ɪsɴ’ᴛ ɪᴛ?

  2. Alphaghoul
    December 22, 2020, 12:09 am | # | Reply

    In the last pane she has really noticable lipstick and eye wings.

    • jdreyfuss
      December 22, 2020, 8:51 am | # | Reply

      She did the whole time. The cat eye was covered by her hair before.

  3. David B Huber
    December 22, 2020, 12:11 am | # | Reply

    My mind is agog, imagining Daffy Duck as a traveling salesman for Whimsical Widget Whirligig Unicorn Power Supplies of Walla-Walla Washington!

    • Shadowmehr
      December 22, 2020, 9:48 am | # | Reply

      Nice, but how would he squeeze inside to make a pitch to the boss?

      • David B Huber
        December 22, 2020, 10:04 am | # | Reply

        He just needs to pitch Baron Mistycorn. Maybe they could go on a road trip together!

      • David B Huber
        December 22, 2020, 10:07 am | # | Reply

        Or he could employ the Acme Pipe Full of Fun Kit #9 😉

  4. Bear
    December 22, 2020, 2:59 am | # | Reply

    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?

    • awgiedawgie
      December 22, 2020, 7:48 am | # | Reply

      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”.

      • Shadowmehr
        December 22, 2020, 9:49 am | # | Reply

        (Insert ominous bass note here.)

  5. Barking Monkey
    December 22, 2020, 6:46 am | # | Reply

    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.

    • jdreyfuss
      December 22, 2020, 8:53 am | # | Reply

      “don’t think I’d bet on that horse.”
      Heh

  6. ThatOneGuy
    December 22, 2020, 7:08 am | # | Reply

    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.

  7. Sheik
    December 22, 2020, 8:45 am | # | Reply

    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.

    • Frank
      December 22, 2020, 9:50 am | # | Reply

      When no one could make 2020 worse, you had to go and make it worse, didn’t you?

      • David B Huber
        December 22, 2020, 10:10 am | # | Reply

        You didn’t really think the eruption of Kilauea was the cherry on top of 2020, did you?

        • Regret
          December 22, 2020, 4:26 pm | # | Reply

          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.

    • davidbreslin101
      December 22, 2020, 4:09 pm | # | Reply

      It’s a Carrington Event, and all of Earth is invited!

    • David B Huber
      December 22, 2020, 6:00 pm | # | Reply

      “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…”

  8. jdreyfuss
    December 22, 2020, 8:54 am | # | Reply

    That’s not fair. They’re like 2-2 on those. Okay, maybe 1-2-1. I’ll call Aladdin a half-win.

  9. Frank
    December 22, 2020, 9:52 am | # | Reply

    No live action remakes is a pretty compelling argument

    • Manifesta
      December 22, 2020, 12:18 pm | # | Reply

      That sold me on it.

  10. BMunro
    December 22, 2020, 10:51 am | # | Reply

    What’s the power source? Is it self-contained or does it plug into something?

    • David B Huber
      December 22, 2020, 7:30 pm | # | Reply

      They should ask Dr. Jones to whip up something that plugs in to itself.

  11. Xerxes Aragon
    December 22, 2020, 11:18 am | # | Reply

    Power outages are no problem. Everything restores to normal from the hard drive when power returns.

    • notStanley
      December 22, 2020, 2:06 pm | # | Reply

      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.

  12. Robert Nowall
    December 22, 2020, 12:10 pm | # | Reply

    Could a virtual power source power a virtual world?

    • David B Huber
      December 22, 2020, 3:37 pm | # | Reply

      Certainly. By harnessing virtual particles. 😉

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