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2010-11-03: Granular Dilemma (assortment)
A fresh mix
Enjoy a bunch of granular granular dilemma comics comics.
This comic is in the storyline:
- Variations
A long-running series, maybe the crux of the site. Reader submits a suggestion, and I draw three comics based on that suggestion. Originally all three had to start the same, but it evolved.
This comic includes the contribution:
- pixel tramp suggested: a granular dilemma! only one way to fix this problem.
Text transcript
{{ title: Big Beefcake Challenge }}
Dr Quickly: You only win the Big Beefcake Challenge if you can eat it ALL!
Rabid: !!
Dr Quickly: Lick those crumbs up!
<< LICK LICK >>
[[ Rabid won. ]]
{{ title: You forgot to run the tests before you deployed to production }}
Rabish: So it looks like the transaction cache is running low, which slams the object store hard enough to starve the GC threads, so the whole cache is timed out dirty...
Rabish: ... by the time the controller gets instantiated.
Rabid: Can... we... fix it... ?!
Rabish: Yeah, we just cache in larger chunks... there!
<< TYPE TYPE >>
Rabid: It's ... fixed?
{{ title: Omniscient? More like... "Gone Fishin'"!! }}
Deity: YOUR PUNISHMENT FOR EVIL IS TO COUNT ALL THE GRAINS OF SAND
Noel: Nuts!
Noel: Can I at least pick a single frozen moment in time so it's a fixed quantity?
Deity: SURE OK?
Noel: I pick today's date 8 BILLION YEARS AGO, before this planet formed, so the count is ZERO ALL DONE!
Deity: UFF-DAH!
{{ title: Freaking Slimes }}
Rabid: HAAIIIIII --
Rabid: YA!
<< BLOP >>
[[ Later... ]]
Rabish: Okay, they should be soluble now!
Rabid: Ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya