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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is reportedly training humanoid robots to deliver packages⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Go! Go! Loser Ranger! Season 2 • Sentai Daishikkaku 2nd Season - Episode 7 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It would actually explain a lot if the Red Keeper turns out to be one of the boss monsters. Hiding in plain sight, so to speak. Someone wearing the red uniform was in the scene towards the end of the episode with the reluctant Blue Keeper, if I recall correctly, and I don’t think it was Clown Makeup Guy. So either the Red Keeper survived the stabbing, or he’s being impersonated.

  The Yellow Keeper comes across as an Evil Mad Scientist archetype who quite possibly isn’t on anybody’s side.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former Meta exec says asking for artist permission will kill AI industry⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top 10 Anime of the Week #6 - Spring 2025 (Anime Trending)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And as usual, nearly nothing I’m watching is here—the only overlap is Kowloon Generic Romance. Given that I’m currently following, um, around 20 series, this is impressive in a bizarre kind of way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top 10 Anime of the Week #6 - Spring 2025 (Anime Trending)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not understanding the larger context or who any of the referenced characters are is what kept me away. I gave it one episode and couldn’t understand what was happening so I bailed. It needed more narrative training wheels for folks like me

  It backs up and fills in some of the background in the second and third episodes (in fact, episode 2 is pretty much entirely a history speedrun about Gundams, Char, and the Zeon/Federation war), and I can understand wanting to start the first episode with the characters of the current story rather than with the history, but while the combination was enough to get me mostly up to speed, it’s seriously clunky in the way it plays out. They could have done better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Full-Self Driving Veers Off Road, Hits Tree, and Flips Car for No Obvious Reason (No Serious Injuries, but Scary)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would you inflict that guy on a poor innocent kitty?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Japan's animation industry has embraced AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Much of the animation takes place outside Japan these days. If you watch enough anime end credits, you’ll see a lot of what look like romanized Vietnamese names. And there was a scandal . . . about a year ago now? . . . when some material for an anime then in production was found on the server of a North Korean studio (probably because a Chinese studio to which the anime had been outsourced then outsourced it further without paying attention to little things like international treaties). And I don’t think the teams remaining in Japan have any shortage of recruits.

  This issue, as with any business, is “can AI produce more for cheaper at an acceptable quality?” If it does make real inroads, it’ll be the outsourcing studios doing the less-important scenes that get replaced first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The World Wide Web And The Death Of Graceful Degradation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Most people aren’t willing to pay extra money or do extra work for something they themselves don’t need or use. Unless there’s a massive marketing campaign behind it, or the law requires it. This has been the case throughout history, pretty much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apocalypse Hotel - Episode 7 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Compared to the alien species in this show’s universe, we seem to be mayflies. 🫤

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apocalypse Hotel - Episode 7 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So Ponko is a university graduate, and it took 70 years to build the rocket without visible change in the tanuki. I guess this confirms that their human character designs don’t reflect their actual aging.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does it mean to ‘accept’ or ‘reject’ all cookies, and which should I choose?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My primary browser profile allows only whitelisted cookies. It also allows only whitelisted Javascript, so I don’t see the popups. If this breaks a site beyond usefulness, I seriously consider whether I really need that site (and if it falls into the <2% where the answer is “yes”, I either whitelist it or open it in the window for the other profile that functions on a blacklist basis).

  That’s a lot more manual management than most people want to bother with, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman • Katainaka no Ossan, Kensei ni Naru - Episode 7 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So Beryl’s most dangerous foe to date is . . . rattus rattus. Hopefully he won’t catch anything from that bite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft shuts down email account of International Criminal Court chief prosecutor⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you think you can set up mail infrastructure with on premise everything that is available to your not on premise workers safer than Microsoft, you will be spending a huge amount of money to do so.

  Even if they prefer not to self-host, there are plenty of providers out there that are more trustworthy than Microsoft. In fact, I would say that a medium-sized established company that derives most of its revenue from providing email and related services is likely to secure them better than an oversized tech giant that just does email on the side—they have more incentive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 20]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Shinesman, if you can find it, has an amusingly silly dub that you should be able to follow without paying too much attention to the visuals. They took an already rather silly sentai show parody and just let the English voice actors run away with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Apothecary Diaries Season 2 • Kusuriya no Hitorigoto 2nd Season - Episode 18 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, the rear palace’s security is appalling.

  The outer walls do seem to be like swiss cheese even when people aren’t deliberately making holes in them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime General Discussion Thread, Favorite Spring Season OP/ED Edition [2025, Week 19]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is definitely stylish, but I feel like the lore is a little dense for beginners, even if veterans keep telling me it’s fine.

  Speaking as someone whose prior experience with Gundam has been limited to series not part of the main continuity (Wing, part of SEED and I think the first few episodes of X, none of it recently) and a summary or two I read back in the day . . . it is dense enough that I was having a bit of trouble with some terminology that was thrown around in the first episode. The second, ironically, was somewhat easier to follow despite being a lot more lore-steeped, because while it also dumped a fair amount of terminology without proper explanation, it was stuff related to the brief history/political summaries I’d read before, rather than the nuts and bolts of mecha combat. I haven’t gotten to the third ep. yet.

  Overall, I would rate it as more difficult for someone coming in cold to follow than Your Forma, despite the latter having been deliberately decapitated. I suspect that I would have dropped this if I hadn’t had those half-remembered old summaries of the Universal Century to fall back on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MyAnimeList Acquired by Gaudiy Inc.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, those of us who are actually old keep our lists on paper, not on this newfangled Internet thing. 😉

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apocalypse Hotel - Episode 5 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, do the tanuki kids not age?

  Ponko’s age came up in the episode where she first starts working and Yachiyo won’t agree to employ her unless she’s old enough. I think she says she’s 58 or something around there, which suggests that the tanuki people age ~8 times slower than humans. Assume 24 years for the whiskey development (9 years of experimentation and yearly tasting to get a decent formula + 15 years of aging to get the bottle Yachiyo serves at the bar when consoling the alien over her(?) breakup) and you get ~3 years of aging for the tanuki, which might not be reflected in their character designs.

  Of course, this assumes that the human forms of the tanuki reflect changes in their biological development instead of being “fixed” forms that they’ve memorized somehow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How much would setting the main registry file to read-only break on Windows 11? Someone may be about to attempt the experiment . . .

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are more hoops involved—stuff Windows 10 with your Adobe software in a VM with no Internet connection and you should be okay even after Win10 stops getting security updates—but it isn’t quite impossible for you to migrate everything else and have one or two specific Windows programs too. Granted, you may not have the time and energy to go that route.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI models routinely lie when honesty conflicts with their goals⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Does it matter to the humans interacting with the LLM whether incorrect information is the result of a bug or an intentional lie? (Keep in mind that the majority of these people are non-technical and don’t understand that All Software Has Bugs.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 18]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Then I sort of steeled my resolve and dove into one that I dropped after a couple of episodes about a year ago, because I could see it was going to be a rough ride, and at the time I wasn’t ready to invest as much energy and attention as it was going to demand - Noein: Mou Hitori no Kimi e. I’m about 2/3 of the way through the 24 episode run, and it has been very dense and dramatic, and very good. It’s a sort of Evangelion knock-off insofar as it’s in part a complex and vague science fiction/superpower war allegory on coming of age, but without the religious claptrap - it’s instead all built around quantum physics and multiverse theory. The only real downside to it is that the animation is frankly terrible - an awful combination of cheap fuzzy hand drawn and cheap low poly CGI. But the characters and the story make it worth it.

  In all fairness, Noein is ~20 years old. The animation was pretty much state-of-the-art at the time, and I remember it drawing praise from a couple of the more jaded members of the Usenet anime crowd. It just hasn’t aged as well as some less-ambitious shows of the same era.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 18]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Finally sorted out what I will and will not be watching this season.

  Dropped:

  • I’m the Evil Lord of a Galactic Empire: Unappealing protag who decides he deserves revenge on everyone in existence because of two people.

  • Shin Samurai-den Yaiba: Although I found the Detective-Conan-mangaka-draws-Dragonball artwork style amusing, the story really didn’t grab me.

  • Dinner-Table Detective: One of the characters really rubbed me the wrong way. .

  Barely made it:

  • Yami Healer: The first episode was really awful with its 10+ minutes of continuous harem fluff (made worse because I had no reason to care about the characters), and if people hadn’t posted here that the second was much better, this would have ended up in the “dropped” bin.

  • Your Forma: Dropping the first story arc from the source material, which would presumably have explained more of the background, really wasn’t the best choice here, but we’ll see where it goes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A List of Social Media Platforms that Still Permit Free-Speech⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dude, apparently unlike you, I remember Usenet, which uses precisely the sort of system you’re describing, in its heyday. That means I’ve also seen discussion groups implode because they couldn’t get rid of a single bad actor. Killfiles alone aren’t enough, even when combined with community naming-and-shaming. Someone always lacks self-restraint and engages. That encourages the bad actor(s). They post more, often using multiple sockpuppets to get around people’s killfiles and flood out legitimate discussion. Newcomers to the group see masses of bad actor spam and fail to stick around. The lack of new blood kills the group.

  Self-moderation simply doesn’t work. Yes, bad moderation happens and I’ve seen plenty of examples. But no overarching moderation is also the kiss of death.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman • Katainaka no Ossan, Kensei ni Naru - Episode 4 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m reasonably sure that the gryphon wouldn’t have fit inside the dojo. He would have remembered that. We can also be reasonably sure that (by his own admission) anyone older than him except the smith wasn’t his student either, so not his parents or the adventurer’s guild head. Anyone else, all bets are off, though.