ulterno

@ulterno@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why nor????⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  What if you get the furnace to be puked out of Eru Ilúvatar’s mouth?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why nor????⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That shouldn’t be the case, sure you can find some other volcano on the planet, no?
  Oh right, perhaps there were no Geologists among the Elves/Dwarves. Were they not?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Ok, Millenial..." 🙄⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I am neither lonely, nor in a fursuit.
  You gotta drop the “entirely”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why nor????⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Do we know what powers the ring gives to a dwarven smith?
  Would he be able to find a way to escape incoming molten metal the moment he put his finger in a 2 ton steel sphere?

  What if he ends up with the power to mould metal by thought? He might just manage to deform the same piece of steel and use it to prevent the molten metal from getting to him and then use it to create stilts and a shield for incoming guard attack?

  ---

  Ok, maybe they can just make a cast, separately, away from the ring’s influence and then get Frodo to drop the ring in the molten metal right after it part of it has been poured in.
  But what if the ring ends up floating or sinking during the hardening (cooling down) process, making it accessible to touch, but at the same time, hard enough to detect?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why nor????⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You have the maker of the ring^[Shadow of Mordor]!
  Just make a magic furnace.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why nor????⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  affect any mortal programming the computer

  You don’t need the ring nearby when programming the computer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why nor????⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Too risky.
  What if the huge lump of steel ends up having a hole (imperfection, which would be caused by the will of Sauron affecting the Dwarven workers’ concentration) and someone then puts a finger in it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why nor????⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Perhaps need more lore information before we can understand how well the Elvish guidance systems would work under the full effects of Sauron’s eye, which, considering the perceived threat and opportunity (in case destabilisation of the rocket is successful), on top of the ease of application (it would be in-air, easier to pick, as compared to little ground targets moving among other landscape objects), I’d say Sauron would put full attention onto the missile.

  Much easier to just find a way to build a better furnace.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why nor????⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, and the AA capabilities of Saruman would mean that even a highly manoeuvrable hypersonic cruise missile would have pretty low chances to get past, while the Sauron’s eye seems like it could mess with onboard electronics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remember when the whole family had to share it because you only had one⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, depends upon whose salary you are talking about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remember when the whole family had to share it because you only had one⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I have set one up for ssh that only gets to access a shared folder.
  Pretty useful

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remember when the whole family had to share it because you only had one⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  No worries.
  Soon, millions will be sharing a mainframe subscription cloud system, with just shell terminals priced at around half a year’s salary and requiring an “upgrade” every 2-3 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perfection 🍌⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  So I am assuming you are using that raw ingredient as manure to grow wheat, which you will make into a bread.
  Right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Administrative task management⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It is definitely not safe for whomsoever wants to use that monitor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Administrative task management⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The weird hair colour could just be unnatural lighting.
  Most other things could be chalked up to JPEG (although the calendar numbering seems like a stretch - I have never seen jpeg make a ‘3’ look like a ‘1’ in that specific way).
  What gave me the highest suspicion was the jeans. The stitched parts (mainly the zip part) doesn’t look like real stitching, but like painted plastic. So unless there is some product that is actually plastic pants, printed with a jeans texture, that’s not a real picture.

  And once you know it is AI, it explains the background.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No lowballs, please. I know what I have.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It can be used as a bullshit container too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LibreOffice Online, a self-hostable libre office environment, is coming back!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This should open it to being used collaboratively.
  Then I can convince wherever I work, to use this instead of going with other MS stuff?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Data centers are now hoarding SSDs as hard drive supplies dry up⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  scratch at the window

  I have read this thing 2 times today and I can’t find a meaning for this.
  What does this idiom mean?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Data centers are now hoarding SSDs as hard drive supplies dry up⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And clean water just reduces duct maintenance costs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Data centers are now hoarding SSDs as hard drive supplies dry up⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that’s kinda like trying to DDoS a Cloudflare protected server in hopes that they would drop Cloudflare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Data centers are now hoarding SSDs as hard drive supplies dry up⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It is useless to play this game against them. All the top players are already in.
  Best, find your own way to create ICs and make them for community purposes.
  There will be much less money and you will be tempted to sell to AI chaps, so you will need willpower.
  Specially after putting the time and effort to manufacture yourselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3212: Little Red Dots⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Amateurs

  What did you just say?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, even with the extra cost, HDDs are still cheaper than DVDs simply due to being rewritable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Take the whole system.
  Someone will make Linux work with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But there are still enough companies trying to ride the wave.
  And paying all people’s salaries to Cloud AI services.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  a time when windows were rolled up by hand

  If you are talking about using the handle, then there are still plenty of cheaper cars that have that, depending upon where you are looking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spray n Pray⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t need being reminded visually.
  I can usually taste the different air that is filled with their breath.
  And they feel weird that I want to keep a 1m distance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Double standards⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So, who’s asked whether it is “tasty” or not?
  What if someone fed a really bad diet to chicken and as a result the produce was not tasty to anyone that bought it? Can the seller now get jailed for selling non-tasty chicken? :P

  Also, I never really found chicken tasty, out of the few times I tried. Once, it was, due to the marination, but then it’s the marination ingredients that are really tasty. So I guess you are better off not referring to me when deciding what is legal :P

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wish I could do executive orders 🤔⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the average paedophile would take more than a gallon of space, so that will just increase the number you have to use for the calculation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wish I could do executive orders 🤔⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The average IQ is 100. It’s always 100.

  Taking international IQ as 100, they can talk about the average IQ in the country.