jmcs
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- Comment on If Anime Doesn't Get an Oscar Nomination Next Year, Then Film Is Dead 4 weeks ago:
The article doesn’t that the most important point against the chances of an anime movie winning an Oscar: the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is very American as at least 50% of the members are American, and even more Western-centric since most of the other members are from North America or Europe. Non American movies always have an uphill battle to win an Oscar but something that is quintessentially non-western doubly so.
- Comment on Tor needs 200 new WebTunnel bridges to fight censorship 5 weeks ago:
Authoritarian government:
Please install this root certificate so we can MITM all the HTTPS traffic and make sure you aren’t doing anything we wouldn’t approve. And by please we mean do it or we’ll send you to a gulag in the artic.
- Comment on relaxing bird songs 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, but in monkeybrainish that all translates to “no large predators in sight”.
- Comment on What do you think objectivity is, and what do you think of it? 1 month ago:
But at that point you are out of realm of arithmetics any way.
- Comment on The Vatican randomly dropped their new anime mascot and it is polarizing the internet 2 months ago:
cause i feel like i’ve seen nothing but people liking the character
Especially the rule 34 weebs.
- Comment on Afghanistan morality ministry spreads 'living things' images ban 2 months ago:
The Taliban/Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s flag doesn’t have wheat, it has only calligraphy:
- Comment on No Google Cloud for 12 hours due to power outage. 2 months ago:
That doesn’t help if they have software that assumes it can reach all sites. I remember a few years ago AWS had a EC2 outage in eu-central-1 because of the Availability Zones went down and the service that allocates instances threw a 500 when it failed to get that AZs capacity instead of just allocating the instances to the other 2 AZs.
- Comment on Mexican TikTokers have code words to report on narco-violence without getting banned. 2 months ago:
Instagram was already forcing people to self-censor before TikTok became a thing
- Comment on Mexican TikTokers have code words to report on narco-violence without getting banned. 2 months ago:
Social media forcing people to see self-censorship as normal has to be in the top 5 of the most harmful things they are doing.
- Comment on 'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' Renewed for Season 2 2 months ago:
Being a direct spin-off of Discovery helped.
- Comment on xkcd #3001: Temperature Scales 2 months ago:
Culturally speaking, it’s pretty cursed to use some units that are specific to a country instead of the global standard for science. Extra cursed if it’s for serious engineering (just ask NASA).
- Comment on xkcd #3001: Temperature Scales 2 months ago:
Because it implies you are using US Costumary/Imperial units for science or “fancy” engineering.
- Comment on EU considers calculating X fines by including revenue from Musk’s other firms 2 months ago:
There’s extensive case law in the EU about this. The interesting part in the case of Musk’s companies is that they would be pretty much shielded from X’s fines if he hadn’t used Space X’s and Tesla’s resources and personnel while trying to fix things on X/Twitter.
- Comment on Google tests showing full recipes right in search results 2 months ago:
Does Google care if the content is there but hidden with CSS? I don’t think you need to actually torture the users.
- Comment on EU approves steep tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles 2 months ago:
They will always have slave labour as an “unfair advantage” (to use management-speak euphemisms), so prices might remain low.
- Comment on Personally I prefer NASA's pronunciation, which is "charon". 3 months ago:
- Comment on OpenAI CEO: We may have AI superintelligence in “a few thousand days” 3 months ago:
Right on time for the discovery of cold fusion.
- Comment on Annapurna Interactive has "splintered into two groups, both of which are now working to pick up the pieces" says new report 3 months ago:
A “tiny leadership team” is not a group, it’s a rotting carcass. Executive managers aren’t famous for doing any actual work.
The correct headline is people actually working in Annapurna Interactive packed up their stuff, leaving the parasites behind.
- Comment on Wait a minute, we've been going about this all the wrong way! 3 months ago:
And it required Hezbollah to have no concept of logistic security. Maybe Hamas is as amateurish as Hezbollah in that regard.
- Comment on CERN cuts ties with Russia, will expel hundreds of scientists by December 3 months ago:
Because no one should sign new agreements with terrorist states?
- Comment on Elon Musk destroys astronomy 3 months ago:
Fiber is dirty cheap, just saying. If you consider externalities, much cheaper than starlink. You just want us to finance your lifestyle.
- Comment on Chemistry 3 months ago:
I don’t known why people malign the poor core so much. It killed way less people than it was designed to do.
- Comment on ChatGPT and the movie ‘Her’ are just the latest example of the ‘sci-fi feedback loop’ 6 months ago:
Ah, yes the “Don’t build the Torment Nexus” 🔁 “Big Tech announces the Torment Nexus” loop
- Comment on Canon Connections: DIS 5x07 - Erigah 7 months ago:
Between the 800 years and the Seven of Nines are two things showing that either Reno has paid a visit to the 24th century or the writers lost the plot.
The 800 years if rounded could line up with Seven of Nine’s Enterprise G.
- Comment on [Long interview] Star Trek Discovery's Wilson Cruz Keeps Making Television History 8 months ago:
That’s right, they all live forever in O’Brien’s pattern buffer.
- Comment on Ultimate Chronological Star Trek Viewing Guide 9 months ago:
I agree it’s bad if it’s the first time you’ve watching Star Trek. But it’s a reasonable experience if you are watching it for the second time though.
- Comment on EXCLUSIVE | Microsoft plans Starfield launch for PlayStation 5 - XboxEra 10 months ago:
If the studios are profitable, it was still a good business decision. A bad business decision would be to tank a profitable studio to prop up a struggling hardware platform.
Besides, exclusives are mostly bad for the players, so if companies decide that supporting multiple platforms is the best strategy for them, it’s also better for us.
- Comment on Just a little bit 11 months ago:
The dude snapped when he’s loved ones were killed, that is considered exculpatory of violent actions in almost all legal systems. The difference is that instead of a knife or a gun he had almost omnipotent powers of destruction.
In an ideal society he would get psychological counseling to deal with the trauma and ensure it doesn’t happen again, but I think it’s obvious he was a bit above Troi’s pay grade.
- Comment on Friday night plans? 11 months ago:
Ironic that the TOS theme had lyrics as well
Those weren’t lyrics, they were a morally… dubious legal loophole
- Comment on Let's remember some Star Trek games 1 year ago:
It depends on how familiar you are with old point and click games. If you aren’t used to them, it can be quite frustrating, but even then I think it would be enjoyable if you use a guide to unblock yourself when you get stuck.
