Comment on See for yourself just how massive Meta’s Hyperion data center is

FlowerFan@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• UnspecificGravity@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  These guys usually name their shit after science fiction novels that they didn’t understand the themes of. This is likely named after the Hyperion Cantos series by Dan Simmons.

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  • jambudz@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well, hopefully we’ll get a shrike and it’ll put all the billionaires in the tree of pain.

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  • ChilledPeppers@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Its the tormentus nexus

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  • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Release the shrike!

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• Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It's either saying it out loud, some inside joke that shouldn't have been made public, or they don't get the point of themes and morals of stories.

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  • Maeve@kbin.earth ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They're openly saying it, mocking the masses

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• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  or after the titan, because its “huge”

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• b_tr3e@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think there’s some prior art (about 100y) by a poet named Hölderlin.

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  • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’d say more like a couple thousand years

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_(mythology)

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    • b_tr3e@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Let’s not be cherry picking: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion

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      • jnod4@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Hyperion is one of the oldest names we have though? Why do you think Hölderlin wrote that poem?

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• Maeve@kbin.earth ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Probably

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