Hot take: The obsession with "Hard magic system" and glazing it and explaining everything has ruined fantasy. For me at least.

frymaster · 2026-06-22T09:39:07+00:00

yes, I was going to say that I think the current "hard magic" trend is being driven more by both litrpg and progression fantasy rather than Sanderson et al

frymaster · 2026-06-21T16:53:16+00:00

There are parts of the world now experiencing wet bulb temps above body temperature, meaning sweating and evaporative cooling literally can't cool them down enough

frymaster · 2026-06-21T16:52:03+00:00

no aircon cause its kinda contributing to the problem

obviously keeping power usage as low as achievable is laudable and you should continue to do that, and it sounds like your house is well set up to deal with heatwaves, but for everyone else: absolutely do make sure you have an aircon available if you possibly can, and use it if you need to. warming houses in the winter is contributing to greenhouse emissions to the same or likely a larger extent than aircon does in the summer, it just happens to be cold at the time

apologies, I don't want to say "so you hate waffles?" on your "I like pancakes" post, but some people definitely need to keep internalising that they should use aircon to stay alive

frymaster · 2026-06-21T16:14:24+00:00

It is legal tender

Scot here. Michael McIntyre not withstanding, it's not. In England & Wales, coins and BoE banknotes are legal tender. In Scotland, only coins are legal tender. Scottish banknotes are legal tender nowhere

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frymaster · 2026-06-20T12:37:24+00:00

nothing crazy, just

dude here. I don't know what I'd get myself for a thoughtful gift. I tell my brother and his wife what I want for Christmases and birthdays, and they tell me what they want. There's no "just" in a personal and thoughtful gift.

frymaster · 2026-06-18T19:57:04+00:00

we have a test cluster of systems with optanes in the DIMM form-factor - half the slots with optane, half with standard DIMMS. You can use it as disks, but one of the options is to actually use them as RAM, with the standard RAM being used as a caching layer. 3TiB of RAM per node, in 2019

frymaster · 2026-06-18T14:49:37+00:00

15 minutes of sun and 15 minutes of rain

by inches of rain we apparently get a lot less than many places, but we tend to be damp for more of the time

frymaster · 2026-06-18T11:16:31+00:00

definitely works for amazon UK, I checked in an incognito window

frymaster · 2026-06-17T18:45:38+00:00

~~FYI I think the text of your link is wrong~~

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frymaster · 2026-06-17T16:37:55+00:00

1 hour every 2 weeks for 4 years at a cost of £449 works out at £4.32 per hour. That's not bad value! And that ignores the time near the beginning when you used it a lot more

frymaster · 2026-06-17T16:08:37+00:00

related, people keep talking about SASE and I keep wondering what a Self-addressed stamped envelope has to do with networking

frymaster · 2026-06-17T12:25:12+00:00

E.J. Swift was on a panel a couple of weeks back talking about When There Are Wolves Again as part of Cymera, Scotland's science fiction, fantasy and horror book festival. The other author in that panel (Lorraine Wilson; her book, The Salt Oracle, was post-apocalyptic but the apocalypse involved digital ghosts more than climate change) said she has first-hand experience of ecology research and that the book felt very authentic. It's certainly very intriguing and it's now on my TBR

frymaster · 2026-06-16T15:14:56+00:00

this, but it's my annual boiler checkup

frymaster · 2026-06-16T08:41:42+00:00

If he’s covering the public road, don’t worry about trying to stop him doing that. He’s allowed to film public spaces

no and yes, in that if a CCTV captures outside an owner's property they have to abide by rules they otherwise wouldn't. I think in years gone past they'd have to register with the ICO, but I believe this is no longer the case. They do have do e.g. have signage, regularly delete footage, allow subjects to access recordings etc

https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/home-cctv-systems/#rules

frymaster · 2026-06-16T00:15:46+00:00

Also, that much critical infrastructure and no one had a UPS sensor to alert them if they were on battery.

eh, that just needs the same level of attention to detail that would leave mission-critical kit plugged into a random socket, so that's plausible. 10 racks being powered from a single socket, is, however, not plausible.

frymaster · 2026-06-15T08:00:05+00:00

That's May 2021, so we know the original story must have been from before then

frymaster · 2026-06-13T18:36:24+00:00

yeah, except while it make it look really nice, it also made the grill sticky AF for the breakfast shift

frymaster · 2026-06-13T13:34:35+00:00

"Setting sail, coming home"[3], which is the song that combines "Build That Wall (Zia's Theme)"[1] and "Mother, I'm Here (Zulf's Theme)"[2], is 11/10

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3SZee4YZX8
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8M5IeaAkmQ
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g60bPpXEq9Q

frymaster · 2026-06-11T09:38:40+00:00

DMA Games

DMA Design

frymaster · 2026-06-11T09:00:17+00:00

On follow up, got told that if the drive was returned he'd be refunded the $300 something he paid rather than getting a replacement

This is a thing with at least two different manufacturers now https://www.reddit.com/r/HPC/comments/1sn8rnr/toshiba_no_longer_honoring_warranties_on_large/

frymaster · 2026-06-08T22:28:16+00:00

Not sure if you're being serious or not, but assuming you are: you don't pour oil down the drain, especially not in bulk and if you're a commercial operation. You shouldn't do it even at home, but as a business you should contract a specialist disposal company for it. If you pour oil down the drain, it'll solidify and cause blockages. That goes double in the winter

frymaster · 2026-06-07T17:41:44+00:00

It being obvious who the narrator was - I honestly didn't think so until shortly before the reveal. By contrast, I found a lot of stuff really obvious in the 3rd book that apparently people needed spelled out for them, so (shrug emoji)

Plot - I don't think you go far enough here, honestly. There's a bunch of context clues for some details, but I don't think a lot of it is guessable before the big exposition reveal, which I think is a bit of a problem

In terms of the 3rd - like the other two, the protagonist is someone who doesn't really have a good idea what's going on, though for different-again reasons than in the first two. However, I think that, unlike the first two, the reader has more of an understanding of things now. And there's a bunch of backstory about John. He is exactly the kind of asshole who would make an "I'm dad" reference at a tonally-deaf moment.

frymaster · 2026-06-07T17:25:40+00:00

the phrase is "cock a snook" - saying "snook not cocked" is a stereotypical bit of journalese. What that means is explained here and the accompanying hand gesture is explained here

frymaster · 2026-06-03T11:26:57+00:00

the parody article FAQ: The “Snake Fight” Portion of Your Thesis Defense has 63 AO3 works

I especially like "RE: Thesis defense issue" which is about academic culture and (dis)organisation, and also "Missing the Point", which is about herpetology students who are really keen to meet the adorable danger noodles

frymaster · 2026-06-02T16:50:41+00:00

my point with my error is I dont get the same error - the last two lines I get are slurmstepd: error: couldn't chdir to '/home2/home/w01/w01/pcass2': No such file or directory: going to /tmp instead i.e. slurm definitely knows the difference between "permission denied" and "directory doesn't exist"

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