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WCDT Strips 3376 - 3380 (19th to 23rd December 2016)
Penquin47:
--- Quote from: DashaBlade on 20 Dec 2016, 01:22 ---I'm just going to say that from my experiences with the VA, I'm actually unsurprised that they didn't help her. After all, she's not human. (And also female.)
I won't go into too many details, but when I was active duty, I almost died thanks to a military hospital. I was fortunate that a civilian hospital admitted me and gave me the treatment I needed. And it took me a year and a half to get the military to even pay for my hospital admission, because there was a "suitable hospital" on base.
Given that the standard joke when I was in is that military hospitals use doctors that are too crappy to have a civilian practice, and the VA uses doctors that are too crappy to work in a military hospital, I don't think it's that much of a stretch to think that the VA was substandard in their treatment of a non-human too.
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Ouch, that sucks. But I do want to speak up in defense of military doctors, because a lot of them really are good. My mom went through the military's medical school, I was born in a military hospital and for the first 21 years of my life, all medical treatment I had was done by military people. The only significant difference I've noticed between the military care and the civilian care is the cost and availability in my area (there are no military hospitals within 200 miles of me).
Morituri:
Well, clearly mileage varies on VA hospitals. That makes me very sad.
If someone here has mustered out and needs help with PTSD symptoms for programs or operations the government will never admit to, however, I can recommend the VA at a specific location on the East Coast as being both helpful and competent. I am at one remove so I don't know exactly *what* happened, but I know *that* things happened on a black program, and that someone I've known a long time came back really really badly in need of help. And got it. Apparently getting enrolled in the program took way too long and was way too complicated a process - the "runaround" as people have mentioned - but it was evidently a good program.
Sullivan:
--- Quote from: Thrudd on 20 Dec 2016, 06:36 ---
This would seem to be much simpler depending on the methodology used but here there is an assumption that either the image is static or the copy process is instantaneous.
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There are such things as "shadow copies". This is how we take useful, internally-consistent snapshots of things like databases even while they're being updated. No instantaneous copying is required.
brasca:
While Bubble's story sounds all too real I'm curious about her pariah status among other AIs. When Momo first saw her she declared her queen. It was only later when May informed her about her connection to the robot fighting ring as well as her other history that her opinion changed. Perhaps that was the problem. Fellow AIs would seek to befriend her until they learn about her past. That would certainly be another agony to add to the bucket.
Morituri:
--- Quote from: Sullivan on 20 Dec 2016, 11:45 ---
--- Quote from: Thrudd on 20 Dec 2016, 06:36 ---
This would seem to be much simpler depending on the methodology used but here there is an assumption that either the image is static or the copy process is instantaneous.
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There are such things as "shadow copies". This is how we take useful, internally-consistent snapshots of things like databases even while they're being updated. No instantaneous copying is required.
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To expand on that a little bit: When copying a database, you send it a transaction. The effect of that transaction is to copy the database, but the way it actually works is that it starts copying the data, but also from then on, whenever the database processes another transaction, it adds the data that's about to be overwritten to the copy. If the copy-old-data process hasn't gotten to it yet, this is just an out-of-sequence addition. Anyway, the copy-old-data process skips anything that's already been done, so data that's been written since the copy transaction never makes it into the copy.
What you wind up with is a copy of the database as it existed at the instant of the 'copy' transaction - even if it's large and takes days to finish the process.
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