nyan

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Discussion] What is the most gloriously gory anime you've seen?⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  While the show isn’t in general all that gory, there’s this one scene in the old Bastard!! OAV (the 1990s one) where the MC (as a friend of mine put it) juices a hydra, which has got to have the highest blood-produced-to-creatures-killed ratio of any anime I’ve ever seen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DissolvPCB enables fully recyclable 3D-printed circuit boards with liquid metal conductors⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  If necessary, you go full circle by 3D-printing the parts that will be exposed to the liquid out of PLA (or ABS or PETG), which can handle limonene.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DissolvPCB enables fully recyclable 3D-printed circuit boards with liquid metal conductors⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Amazon will sell it to you in 55-gallon drums (that’s >200 litres) if you’re willing to pay. That’ll fill plenty of super soakers. So it depends on how serious you are about your anti-robot-uprising prep.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DissolvPCB enables fully recyclable 3D-printed circuit boards with liquid metal conductors⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if you could use HIPS instead of PVA. Still dissolves, but in limonene rather than water, so inadvertant exposure on a rainy day wouldn’t ruin your circuit board. At the same time, the metal should still be recoverable unless there’s some chemical reaction between gallium and citrus oil that I don’t know about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For the same reason that “send me your advertising” ticky-boxes on website sign-ups should not be ticked by default: because the “feature” is detrimental to many (if not most) users and you have to spot the control before you can disable it. Worse, in this case many ignorant users won’t make the connection between this misfeature and the fact that their laptop is suddenly burning through its battery in double-time—they’ll just assume Firefox is now broken.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is that it’s opt-out and not opt-in, and it should be opt-in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remote Learning Accidentally Introduced a New Danger for LGBTQ Students⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s your only computer, you may not have a choice, and we’re talking about kids here, who are stuck with what their parents do or don’t buy them. I can easily see a teen in a lower-income household being stuck between a rock and a hard place here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s probablly talking about shareholder “value”, AKA inflated stock prices, rather than actual value.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DAN DA DAN Season 2 • Dandadan 2nd Season - Episode 5 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Didn’t catch the song, but the thought passed through my head that one should absolutely not fall into the Spring of Drowned Evil Eye. 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Current US administration stopped funding it as part of their slide towards corporate-driven dystopia, I believe. Tor itself is still out there, just a little more strapped for cash than it used to be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra: World Conquest Starts with the Civilization of Ruin • Isekai Mokushiroku Mynoghra: Hametsu no Bunmei de Hajimeru Sekai Seifuku - Episode 5 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I suppose anime did eventually have to produce a pacifist more dangerous than Prince Phil of Seyruun . . .

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Providing a package, if he did so, was his choice. No one at the distro asked him to (some users may have, but that has nothing to do with the distro or its other users). If you provide the package of your own volition, you should expect that there will be complaints if it doesn’t work as expected. You need a procedure (and a certain amount of saved-up mental fortitude) to deal with them.

  If someone complains to you about someone else’s buggered-up packaging job, the correct thing to do is have a prewritten reply set up saying, “Nothing to do with me, complain to the other guy.” Then close the bugs as WONTFIX and get on with your life. And see if the package host has a removal policy for broken packages, if it is genuinely broken and not just clueless users messing up.

  To me, this specific case seems like the dev wasn’t prepared for what the open Internet is like, couldn’t handle it, and imploded messily. Are the users that got on his nerves at fault? Yes, on one level, but their existence was also entirely predictable. If you know what you’re doing, you factor the existence of these people in when you decide whether you’re willing to release your software to the public or not and what communication channels you should leave open.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think you quite understand how this works. No distro ever asks third party programmers to create packages for them—that’s the job of the distro’s own team, or of enthusiasts using the distro. All the distro packagers want or need from the original programmer is the source code and enough documentation to get it to compile. They take it from there.

  The problem here appears to be that some people with disagreeable personalities chose to complain to upstream instead of (or in addition) to their distro or whoever provided the package. There’s nothing the distro can do to prevent that. And if you’ve been in the game for a bit, you know that, if your software gains any traction, you’re going to run into obnoxious users with entitlement issues and you need to have some way of dealing with that (mentally and procedurally). The programmer here apparently didn’t have the mental stamina to deal with obnoxious users, and threw a fit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Betrothed to My Sister's Ex • Zutaboro Reijou wa Ane no Moto Konyakusha ni Dekiai Sareru - Episode 4 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can just about see Marie wondering when the carriage is going to turn back into a pumpkin in that one scene.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Summer Hikaru Died • Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu - Episode 4 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Did Unuki-sama possess Hikaru’s body because the boy wished for someone to stay by Yoshiki’s side or did it have its own reason?

  Why not both? It might have its own agenda but still appreciate getting a body it didn’t have to fight for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kaiju No. 8 Season 2 • Kaijuu 8-gou 2nd Season - Episode 2 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, they broke him. Shouldn’t have tested him to destruction at the end of last season, guys.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rule34 blocked the UK entirely rather than comply due to the new law.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I admit, my information on what teens use for barter is even more out-of-date than yours (by about a decade, based on when MySpace was popular).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rule34 blocked the UK entirely rather than comply due to the new law.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure whether the readership for this article is primarily British (“crisps”) or primarily North American (“chips”), so I compromised. 🤷

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rule34 blocked the UK entirely rather than comply due to the new law.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on what you mean by “kids”. Elementary schoolers, no, but some teens are willing to do a surprising amount of work to accomplish something if it’s important enough to them. And then they pass their method along to their friends, or offer to set up anyone in the school for the price of a couple of bags of snack food.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google develops AI tool that fills missing words in Roman inscriptions⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It isn’t quite as crazy as it sounds when you consider that a lot of inscription texts are pretty formulaic—epitaphs, dedications, and such. Plus, we have plenty of surviving writings in classical Latin, so we know the grammar pretty well. Given those things, I’d expect an AI trained on the corpus of inscription texts that have survived without significant damage to be able to make reasonable suggestions about formulaic texts.

  Really, when you think about it, a trained human presented with a damaged inscription text won’t be doing anything much different from what an LLM would do: they’ll try to fill in the text with the most likely words based on any remaining traces of letters, and their knowledge of other, similar texts. The problem is getting the LLM to communicate its level of certainty about the fill-ins it’s offering.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Epochalypse: It’s Y2K, But 38 Years Later⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a problem with the internal represensation of a C/C++ type alias called time_t, mostly. That’s the thing that holds the number of elapsed seconds since midnight on Jan. 1, 1970, which is the most common low-level representation of date and time on computers. In theory, time_t could point to a 32-bit type even on a 64-bit system, but I don’t think anyone’s actually dumb enough to do that. It affects more than C/C++ code because most programming languages end up calling C libraries once you go down enough levels.

  In other words, there’s no way you can tell whether a given application is affected or not unless you’re aware of the code details, regardless of the bitness of the program and the processor it’s running on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In China, delivery robots now ride the subway to restock 7-Eleven stores⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If the bots are required to have paid transit passes and if they’re confined to off-peak hours when the subways aren’t full anyway, this could actually be a net win for mass transit: they’re putting money into the system while consuming relatively few resources, so the bots can fund improvements that benefit humans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study finds AI tools made open source software developers 19 percent slower⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  These AI dev tools absolutely have a direct negative impact on developer productivity, but they also have an indirect impact where non-devs use them and pass their Eldritch abominations to the actual devs to fix, extend and maintain.

  Sounds like the next evolution of the Excel spreadsheet macro. Or maybe it’s convergent evolution toward the same niche. (I still have nightmares about Excel spreadsheet macros.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do I have a feeling that a handful of people are going to suddenly become n-tuplets?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nyaight of the Living Cat - Episode 2 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It becomes that much more difficult to survive a zombie apocalypse when the “zombies” are cute and fluffy and you really don’t want to run them over . . .

  (Also, I’m wondering if they’re ever going to run out of cat-joke brand names. “Mewtube”, yet.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spring 2025 AOTS & Summer 2025 Top 10 Week 1 Results (Anime Corner)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Surprised and rather pleased to see Takopii in first place. I don’t know whether I’m going to be able to finish the series without quitting in self-defense, but the first ep certainly had substance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crunchyroll & Now Netflix Both Confirm Anime Sub Watchers Are the Minority on Their Platforms⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The big streaming platforms probably get pretty much all of the casual watchers, who favour dubs, but have to split the more hardcore fans who favour subs with the high seas. That’s going to skew the stats a bit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nyaight of the Living Cat - Episode 1 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would not survive ten seconds in that universe. 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robot performs first realistic surgery without human help: System trained on videos of surgeries performs like an expert surgeon⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d bet on at least twenty years before it’s in general use, since this is a radical change and it makes sense to be cautious about new technology in medicine. Initial clinical trials for some common, simple surgeries within ten years, though.

  This is one of those cases where an algorithm carefully trained on only relevant data can have value. It isn’t the same as feeding an LLM the unfiltered Internet and then expecting it to learn only from the non-crazy parts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When tech hardware becomes paperweights⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you can. Medical devices are particularly nasty: there may be only one or two brands on the market that do what you need, because such devices understandably require extensive certification. If the only available option requires an app, you’re stuck. If you need something that meets other legal or professional certification requirements, you might also have very limited options.

  For just about anything else, I agree that there’s probably some alternative to an app-locked device, although some level of convenience tradeoff may be necessary.