Smells like dinner with Winston

Agreed. We will voluntarily apply human safeguards to the Bowman's Wolf.

Now let's give her the seeker message.

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Why does it seem the faster our processors get, the slower our response times are?

Maybe we should download that new twenty terabyte patch to our operating systems?

I don't know when the strip was drawn, but fairly recently a “200 line patch” came out for Linux that improves the responsiveness of the system for the user, but doesn't really speed anything up. There's a bit of a joke in that. (БТРкО)
The strip was drawn in 2004. The patch sped up the kernel, as far as I know it shouldn't be noticeable to the average user, but it should have been noticeable on large servers and supercomputers (Жирафик Рафик)