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Monoliths are supposed to be made of stone, hence the name...
by Grustaf 6y ago
Monoliths are supposed to be made of stone, hence the name...
- kube-system 6y agoMost of the ones I've seen over my career are made of spaghetti.
- wyldfire 6y agoOr mashed potatoes? "This means something..."
- jonathanoliver 6y agoUHF! I caught that reference. It took me years to understand that reference fully. When I saw UHF originally it bugged me that I knew it was a reference to something but I didn't know what. Finally, a decade later I saw Close Encounters of the Third Kind and I finally put two and two together.
- gfodor 6y agoprobably the weirdest comment on HN to which I've ever thought "me too!"
- vlunkr 6y agoI saw close encounters as a kid. I don't know how much I enjoyed it, but it at least gave me a deeper appreciation of UHF and the Simpsons.
- fred_is_fred 6y agoDue to my age when I watched UHF I had not seen many of the movies that it referenced: Conan the Barbarian, Rambo, Indiana Jones & The Temple of Doom, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Close Encounters - only over time did I come to appreciate it.
- wyldfire 6y agoIt was meant to be a direct reference. I've only seen one part of UHF - Michael Richards' scene w/"The FIREHOSE!!"
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y agoYou're missing out. UHF is packed with hilarity.
- TeMPOraL 6y agoFor those of us who don't know: what does "UHF" stand for here?
- LgWoodenBadger 6y agoit's a comedy movie starring Weird Al Yankovic https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098546/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098546/
- coldpie 6y agoThe Weird Al movie from the 80s. https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f9/f7/bd/f9f7bd6cd80f1db36a07ae9da4300821.jpg https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f9/f7/bd/f9f7bd6cd80f1db36a07...
- emsy 6y agoOr mud
- eugene0 6y agoShould we call them monoghetti?
- tokai 6y agoI think stele would be the right word maybe? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stele https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stele
- hprotagonist 6y agoProbably not. Solid metal objects at that scale have not been a feature of human history for particularly long, they probably don't have a name that's normally used in an archaeological context.
- h2odragon 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_pillar_of_Delhi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_pillar_of_Delhi
- hprotagonist 6y agothat’s super cool!
- dhskdnsjfnfj 6y agoIn fact there is an art-historical precedent, dating back half a century, for calling modern vertical land art pieces "stele." Michael Heizer did it. http://legacy.earlham.edu/~vanbma/index/121299heizer-art.htm http://legacy.earlham.edu/~vanbma/index/121299heizer-art.htm http://doublenegative.tarasen.net/city http://doublenegative.tarasen.net/city
- cblconfederate 6y agoOr code
- bencollier49 6y agoSo lith, from Greek lithos, stone. Problem is there's no straight equivalent for a metal bar - perhaps rávdos/rabdos, meaning ingot/rod. So, "Monorabd"?
- lisper 6y agoBig hunk o' metal
- kitd 6y ago"Sideros" (roughly) is iron in Greek. Monosider?
- leetcrew 6y agométallon is probably the most analogous word to líthos. unfortunately "monometal" just sounds kinda dumb.
- ehavener 6y agoMonoum https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ium https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ium
- flyingfences 6y agoWhat is metal, if not refined rock extract?
- xeromal 6y agoTechnically correct is the best kind of correct.
- nwellnhof 6y agoAlso correct for the musical genres.
- interestica 6y agoAlso: hardcore.
- Grustaf 6y agoHaha brilliant!
- pugworthy 6y agoPerhaps but the term lithography refers to a printing technique that can use stone or metal.
- umvi 6y agoMost monoliths I've dealt with are 20,000+ line legacy C files
- JoeAltmaier 6y agoHa! I once reduced a 10,000 line module in a Broadcom 802.11 driver to one page - a template to construct a message. Calls to the old code (5-6 lines) went to nothing - simply pass your structure to the message API. But that was an eggregious driver. Previous version: ~15 modules. Rewritten by some purist: 900(!) modules. I kid you not.
- richardfey 6y agoPlease tell me more! How come the calls to the old code went to nothing? It does not surprise me but I wonder how it happened in this specific instance. Who did the 900 modules rewrite?
- JoeAltmaier 6y agoInstead of declaring a message and creating it with a call to the (now obsolete) module specific to the structure being transmitted, one simply passed the structure to the message-send api. The conversion template to 'Message' automatically rewrote the structure argument as a message argument. I was re-writing the driver as a simple C++ set of pure virtual objects and implementations for my hardware. So when I scavenged code to send a certain structure as a message, I simply didn't make the old calls. I remember I did (for some reason) edit all the old modules to use the new API, to prove it still worked I guess. A long afternoon of search and replace. The (Korean?) company that owned the driver must have had a team or something. It was extremely brain-dead code for every element of an 802.11/ethernet abstraction as a separate module, done twice (once for the driver; once for the module firmware). Double structure definitions for everything. My team wanted a walk-thru of the existing driver. I scheduled two hours, one before lunch and one after. I opened with "I've brought just the 500 most significant modules today, and we're going to walk thru a connection and message send". Proceeded to open dozens of nested module references on a very long path from triggering a connection attempt to exchanging the first message for negotiation. The hour was up. Nobody came to the 2nd hour after lunch.
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- wasdfff 6y agoI think its named after the space odyssey 2001 version
- samstave 6y agoI have a Monolisp. I have a lisp - but I am very monotonous.
- tomjakubowski 6y agoThey got all that iron out of one really big piece of ore.