#2054: Data Pipeline
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[Cueball is standing with an open laptop, showing it to Ponytail and White Hat.]
Cueball: Check it out - I made a full automated data pipeline that collects and processes all the information we need.
[Ponytail is looking down at Cueball's laptop.]
Ponytail: Is it a giant house of cards built from random scripts that will all completely collapse the moment any input does anything weird?
[Borderless beat panel]
[Cueball looks at his laptop.]
Cueball: It... might not be.
Ponytail: I guess that's someth-
Cueball: Whoops, just collapsed. Hang on, I can patch it.
(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)
Title text:"Is the pipeline literally running from your laptop?" "Don't be silly, my laptop disconnects far too often to host a service we rely on. It's running on my phone."