Even if you have backups, if you have never tested your backups, you don't have backups.

Not to worry, the VM we're on has only been running since last Tuesday.

If someone were to restore the universe from a faulty backup, would we even know there was anything missing? Assuming the consistency checks passed.

> Assuming the consistency checks passed.

You have a lot more faith in world-ops than I do. You think the have tests and checks?

Even if they restored us from a good backup, we probably wouldn't like the debugging session that follows.

The dark matter is just ghosts of println/log statements?

so that's where my socks have been going missing!

And here I was, attributing it to intermittently tangent universes: at points where they touch, random things can cross over.

The computational substrate might just be a side-effect of something else happening in higher dimensions.

All of the sysadmins were fired, and along with IT, were replaced with devops SWEs who thought replication was good enough.