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[Steve is restless and it shows. He's looking at the camera almost like he's waiting for it to jump out at him or he's challenging it in some way. While he's making an attempt to look friendly, he's also giving the network a far too serious amount of effort, like he's trying too hard at presenting what he has to say. Steve has a message and apparently it is An Important Issue.]

I'm starting a book club. If any of you have some things you'd like to share, I figure it can't hurt to get together and look at them as a group. If you're interested, let me know. I need the experience. Maybe some of you do too.


[ooc: While Steve says "book club" what he's really doing is creating meeting sessions for people to try new things using a book someone likes as a launching point. It's an interactive book club for trying new hobbies. Because Steve has to get his hands dirty at all times. If you're interested, I will make some book club related logs for sharing activities and messes as well.]

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[partiallysquirrelblood]

Alright then.

[There's probably something going on, but Doreen has no idea what. And she doesn't feel comfortable asking. It's not like she and Cap knew each other all that well.]

I'm in, but I don't really have any suggestions. Most of what I've been reading lately are programming books.

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[He's taking this very seriously. That or focusing particularly hard. But either way, he does seem to lighten up at least a little, realizing he might be coming on strong.]

Well, I can't say I really have experience with those, but that's what a club is for, right? Sharing experiences.

[That is... a way to look at it.]

[partiallysquirrelblood]

The problem is they'll be basically incomprehensible to anyone who's not already studying Comp-Sci? Unless you became Captain Achieving Consistency Across Distributed Database Systems when nobody was looking.

[And let's be honest, the acronym wouldn't really fit on his forehead.]

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I'm... not sure I understand what that actually means.

[He recognizes the words, but the actual meaning of them is probably lost on him, yes.]

[partiallysquirrelblood]

A distributed database is a database spread out over multiple storage devices. Consistency means that you'd be able to access the most recently updated version of that database, or receive an error.

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Huh. What happens if you get an error?

[At least he's a learning type.]

[partiallysquirrelblood]

It depends on the system and what error it ran into? Mostly it just means it couldn't find the most recent version of the database for whatever reason.

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[It's clear from Steve's expression that he's not quite sure what to do with this information. He usually leaves that stuff to the experts.]

Ah... That's. Useful?

[partiallysquirrelblood]

It can be! Sometimes it takes a backseat to availability. But then we start getting into CAP theorem, and that's a whole other sack of nuts.

I love my major, but I know it's not always super-easy for other people to get into.

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No, I guess not.