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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apocalypse Hotel - Episode 12 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  If the problem is purely allergies, careful exposure to the allergens under controlled conditions should have some of them able to walk around without suits within a generation. Although they’ll likely need to carry hayfever meds and epi-pen equivalents around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[JS Required] Boeing’s Inadequate ‘Training, Guidance and Oversight’ Led to Mid-Exit Door Plug Blowout on Passenger Jet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  That they didn’t have enough technicians trained in this to be able to ensure that one was always available during working hours, or at least when it was glaringly obvious that one was going to be needed that day, is . . . both extremely and obviously stupid, and par for the course for a corp whose sole purpose is maximizing profit for the next quarter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman • Katainaka no Ossan, Kensei ni Naru - Episode 12 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Beryl’s former students need to band together and get him some etiquette lessons if he keeps having to rub shoulders with the royal family, or he’ll sooner or later end up feeling terminally embarassed about something to do with a dessert fork.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Name an older anime you'd love to see make a full comeback?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Escaflowne - with modern animation and a full orchestra

  Much of the original soundtrack was recorded by the Warsaw Philharmonic, if I recall correctly, so it’s already had the full orchestra treatment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Name an older anime you'd love to see make a full comeback?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d like to see Pumpkin Scissors and Zipang completed up to the ends of their respective manga (although Zipang was controversial enough that it might be really difficult to get it made). Likewise, Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi up to the end of the light novel series. And, just as an extra, it would be nice to see the last arc or two of Ghost Hunt make it to anime, although that would have to be an OAV as I’m pretty sure it would make six episodes max.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Name an older anime you'd love to see make a full comeback?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  But . . . but that would put the “I don’t care about series continuity” joke in the second OAV at risk!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Voice Assistants Becoming Family Members?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on how lousy your family is, I think. Actually, it sounds kind of like a stereotypical teenager of years past: never talking to parents and blasting loud music all the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI supremo Sam Altman says he 'doesn't know how' he would have taken care of his baby without the help of ChatGPT⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Given what he’s undoubtedly being paid, I’m sure hiring a nanny to look after his unfortunate offspring is well within his budget.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else watching Sword of the Demon Hunter?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Available information suggests that the source material is considered seinen rather than shounen, so it is indeed aimed at an older crowd. Good seinen material tends to be more thoughtful than shounen. (Bad seinen material is just shounen with added hentai, though.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Counted All of the Yurts in Mongolia Using Machine Learning⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Whether it’s a failure or not depends on whether they’re living in yurts by choice because it’s their traditional way of living, or they’re doing it because it’s cheap and they can’t afford anything else. (There are probably also some sanitation issues—I don’t think most yurts have running water, so public infrastructure would have to make up the difference there.) And you do need some minimal qualifications for assessing that: talking to the people living in the yurts would be a good start.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apocalypse Hotel - Episode 11 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I do wonder about the whole parts-compatibility issue. There’s a tendency when you’re constructing an electronic device today to standardize on common hardware and interfaces as much as possible, because it makes manufacturing cheaper. I would have expected the male and female humanoid-hotelier-bots, at minimum, to be distinguished only by cosmetics and programming, not functional hardware. I suppose the parts from the bots in the robot graveyard could have been damaged by improper storage, but still . . .

  (Also, I was suspicious of that “horse” from the beginning, because equine facial marking Just Don’t Look Like That.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lazarus - Episode 11 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Voice acting in Japan is a separate profession that can get you quite a bit of fame. Voice acting in the English-speaking world is usually something second-rate actors do when they can’t earn enough money from live-action roles. So the quality of the voices provided is usually (but not always) higher in Japanese.

  (As for the show itself, the action scenes are fairly well-done, but the plot is no great shakes. It’s entertaining so long as you don’t expect too much of it.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There are reasons I went to Seamonkey for a couple of years, then to Pale Moon (which is divergent enough now that I expect it to keep chugging along even if Firefox folds—most of Mozilla’s patches are no longer relevant to its codebase). I’m interested to see what Ladybird will bring to the table, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What anime do you regularly rewatch?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  These days, I only manage to rewatch about one series a year unless I’m convalescing from something, but here are a few series that have made it to the head of the rewatch queue over the years:

  • Shoujo Kakumei Utena
  • Escaflowne
  • Cowboy Bebop
  • Trigun
  • Ergo Proxy
  • Pumpkin Scissors
  • Zegapain
  • Zipang
  • Madoka Magica
  • Kill la Kill
  • Gurren Lagann
  • The Skull Man
  • Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi
  • Utawarerumono (original series only—the other two are weaker)
  • Concrete Revolutio
  • Princess Tutu
  • Noein
  • Mawaru Penguindrum
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For All That Is Good About Humankind, Ban Smartphones⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Author admits smartphones are ubiquitous, and doesn’t at all consider, in a hypothetical situation where everyone unanimously agreed to stop using them, where all this e-waste will go?

  Pretty much every single smartphone in use right now will be ewaste 20 years from now, and most of them will be within 10. So we have that disposal problem already regardless. Hypothetically, if everyone were to get rid of their phones, we’d at least stop creating even more future ewaste.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Google about to destroy the web?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, but not for want of trying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The good thing: half of them have come to their senses.

  The bad thing: half of them haven’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Massive internet outage reported: Google services, Cloudflare, Character.AI among dozens of services impacted⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Minority browsers. Since I daily drive Pale Moon, I’m among the people affected. It’s suspected that they test only the 3-4 most popular browsers, and whether anything else works with their code is up to luck.

  You may think browsers with tiny market shares aren’t important, but all new browsers start out that way. I fear for Ladybird if it ever makes it past the alpha stage, for instance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Massive internet outage reported: Google services, Cloudflare, Character.AI among dozens of services impacted⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It blocks anyone not using one of its preferred browsers, among other things. It’s become the gatekeeper for a large fraction of the Internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apocalypse Hotel - Episode 10 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And we never do find out for sure how either of them died. 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Unaware Atelier Meister • Kanchigai no Atelier Meister: Eiyuu Party no Moto Zatsuyougakari ga, Jitsu wa Sentou Igai ga SSS Rank Datta to Iu Yoku Aru Hanashi - Episode 11 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess battles of wills still count as combat. 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨France Moves to Classify X as an Adult Site Amid Digital ID Crackdown⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The site formerly known as Twitter would be more respectable these days if it were a porn site.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Go! Go! Loser Ranger! Season 2 • Sentai Daishikkaku 2nd Season - Episode 9 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was right about Yellow: he’s a chaotic-evil mad scientist in a law-and-order suit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is reportedly training humanoid robots to deliver packages⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When you order something, do you express where you want it sent in coordinates or as an address? You can’t assume that the device’s coordinates at the time the order is made correspond to where the order is supposed to be sent, even if the device gives coordinates. Plus, they’re either not precise enough (could encompass the yard of the house next door, or just the snowbank at the edge of the property) or too precise (“drop this in the center of the roof because that’s where the coordinates are”). You’d need software capable of parsing building layouts well enough to figure out where the main entryway is and leave the parcel there, or you’d have to require that people interested in receiving deliveries by drone put a beacon where they want the drone to drop stuff.

  Beacons are the simplest solution, but they immediately put Amazon in a position where most people won’t care enough to set them up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is reportedly training humanoid robots to deliver packages⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The drone’s only as good as its software, the map it’s using, and the address data it’s given. All of which were created by fallible humans.

  Ain’t it fun having turtles all the way down?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Go! Go! Loser Ranger! Season 2 • Sentai Daishikkaku 2nd Season - Episode 8 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, that was quite the plot-development-packed episode . . . and now everyone’s plans seem to have gone up in smoke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman • Katainaka no Ossan, Kensei ni Naru - Episode 9 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is based on a light novel series. If they’re doing the typical 1 volume = 4 episodes, episode 9 is derived from the beginning of volume 3, so not an entirely ridiculous place for a new character introduction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Geologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire world⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ll have scavenged the abandoned buildings in built-up areas, yes. Still-occupied buildings and those in smaller towns with no easy access to a scrapyard are more likely to be intact. So it’s more likely to be a case of “these are no longer to code, they are not grandfathered, you have a two-year grace period to switch them out” (staggered geographically or by building classification to avoid a run on plastic pipes) plus “road trip!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Geologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire world⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How much old copper piping is still out there that could be replaced by other materials to recover the copper? I’m sure there are other common obsolete applications. The nice thing about metals is that we already have a pretty robust recycling chain in place for them. That plus the remaining supply plus aluminium plus other replacements plus careful design to minimize the use of copper where it’s absolutely necessary might be enough to carry us through.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Go! Go! Loser Ranger! Season 2 • Sentai Daishikkaku 2nd Season - Episode 7 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The original Red was enough of a greedy asshole that his behaviour is too much in character to warrant further examination, maybe? Or Green Keeper suspects, but also knows that he needs ironclad proof in order to accuse another Dragon Keeper, and doesn’t have it yet? Or he’s saving it until after they’ve dealt with the other boss monsters? Or some other hidden reason, possibly having to do with why the Keepers’ fancy ultra weapons appear to be organic?

  Part of the reason D was fingered so quickly was that he really isn’t that good an actor and doesn’t take precautions when he thinks he’s alone or with people who already know. The boss monster may be better at faking humanity.