The Borg don’t have that problem. Every drone knows everything the hive knows and the hive never forgets. Therefore every drone knows which cable to replace, should the need arise.
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SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 8 months agoSpoken like someone who’s never had to replace a cable in a long run
Chais@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Gork@lemm.ee 8 months ago
It’s nice having a bionic eye that is directly connected to an Enterprise Content Management system which has schematics and engineering diagrams for:
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Aforementioned cables, terminal blocks, pigtails and splices, homerun cables, and associated electrical and instrumentation loop diagrams
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Piping and Instrumentation diagrams for all ship systems, including revision level document management
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Plan and structural drawings of each Cube, with calculations
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Environmental/equipment qualification documentation
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Certificates of Compliance from Hive manufacturers, tracing materials back to their original source. These would also need to confirm to Hive QA programs and traceable Hive-wide standards, where applicable.
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Indexed and catalogued maintenance work orders
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Legacy documentation from previous species who were assimilated
thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 8 months ago
You make it sound as the hive is the perfect engineering job you’ll ever have
Test_Tickles@lemmynsfw.com 8 months ago
That’s how the assimilation starts, then you find out that they start with 6 weeks of vacation, unlimited sick days, and free health care for your family… resistance is futile.
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Sharkwellington@lemmy.one 8 months ago
Ah so they’re running in RAID 1 then. That’s a lot of data to transfer if they’re all constantly updating, definitely recommend upgrading to fiber-optic.
mosiacmango@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Not RAID 1, its more like disturbed storage with redundant copies. You dont need all data to be on all discs if you replicate it enough times in geographically dispersed areas.
The borg uses discrete cubes scattered across a galaxy, which is solid.
Steeve@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
As long as you know where it starts and where it ends you can just pop a new one there and let the old cable be absorbed into the rest
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Replacing a cable in that mess is a lot quicker than having to undo dozens of cable ties though.
marcos@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Nobody replaces “a cable” in a long run.
The only two actions available are to add a cable, or to replace an entire nest of them.
zepheriths@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Or trust me I have. Imagine if you will a house from the 1930s with the internet cable running from the opposite side of the house as the router. However the wire is deliberately put through as many rooms as possible on the way to the router and super glued into place as though it’s fine to trip on a wire 5 times to get to a room.
mosiacmango@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Yall need an attic, a crawlspace, or some outdoor rated cable and some siding hooks.
echodot@feddit.uk 8 months ago
Depends how on reasonable they are, if they’re just long cables and dangling on the floor it doesn’t really matter except for aesthetics.
Steve@communick.news 8 months ago
That’s an effect on your ability to work, not the computers. The computer still doesn’t care.
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Is cable management actually bad for computers? If it make the wiresb10% longer to accommodate the aesthetic shapes we like, then that’s 10% more time it takes for the 1s and 0s to reach their destination. I guess what I’m saying is my lack of cable management is actually a productivity hack
variants@possumpat.io 8 months ago
more downtime while you go looking around for the bad cable maybe