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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Rec] Seeking recommendations for kid friendly anime⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyamal Tantei Kiruminzoo might work, if you can find it (I have no idea who holds the streaming rights right now, if anyone). Comedy-adventure about kids who find a device that lets them turn into animals. I don’t remember it having anything too heavy in it, although admittedly it’s been a few years.

  In a couple of years, Detective Conan / Case Closed might be good (and will keep you busy for a very long time), but six is probably a bit too young.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Costs of Anime: Prices of Episodes Have Skyrocketed, Demonstrates ARCH CEO Nao Hirasawa - Anime Corner⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Expectations have gotten a lot higher. These days, no studio would even try to get away with something like Violinist of Hameln (13-ep budget stretched to cover 25 in the hand-drawn cel era, although IMNSHO the show succeeds despite all the corner-cutting in the visuals).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teens using AI meal plans could be eating too few calories — equivalent to skipping a meal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Time and energy to prep meals is also a cost. I don’t know how it is in Europe, but in North America, the poor-but-employed segment of the population is often working multiple minimum wage jobs to stay afloat. Even if they know how to cook and have the tools to do so, they may be too tired when they get home to do more than pop a pizza in the oven.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Episode] Isekai Office Worker: The Other World's Books Depend on the Bean Counter • Isekai no Sata wa Shachiku Shidai - Episode 10 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  that wayward magical energy - that just has to fly in the direction of Seiichirou somehow

  Obviously he has Plot Magnetism. Kind of the opposite of Plot Armour. 😉

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Episode] "Omae Gotoki ga Maou ni Kateru to Omou na" to Yuusha Party wo Tsuihou Sareta node, Outo de Kimama ni Kurashitai - Episode 10 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Still, they could have come up with something better than that (although I suppose that if it’s a carryover from the light novels, they might be stuck with it).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Episode] "Omae Gotoki ga Maou ni Kateru to Omou na" to Yuusha Party wo Tsuihou Sareta node, Outo de Kimama ni Kurashitai - Episode 10 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I felt Flum was kind of out of character in this episode. She’s been established as often being too trusting, but not generally stupid, and the whole towel incident was a what-the-actual-fuck moment. It’s just so stunningly obvious that that should not have been her first priority (an entire change of clothes, maybe, if the ambient temperature was so low Milkit would have been at short-term risk of hypothermia, but not a single dumbass towel).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do I still have a 32" TV? Because that’s the largest size that’s still readily available as an ordinary, cheap, flat dumb panel with a tuner. (Well, that and I don’t especially need a larger one.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Episode] Easygoing Territory Defense by the Optimistic Lord • Okiraku Ryoushu no Tanoshii Ryouchi Bouei - Episode 9 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Betcha the wings’ll taste good if basted with the right sauce.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teen boys are using ChatGPT as their wingman. What could go wrong? AI is teaching teenagers about love now.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it terrible that I’d like to see an LLM trained exclusively on translated shoujo manga trying to give teen boys advice about this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BYD Reveals the ‘World’s Longest-Range EV’ as American Auto Industry Struggles to Keep Pace⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, there are parts of Canada that remote that still have roads. I grew up in one of them. Let’s posit an urgent but not-likely-to-be-fatal medical emergency, like the torn and detached retina I had a few years ago. That required an urgent trip to a major city in particularly foul winter weather. Nearest major city to where I grew up was 800+km, and there are other towns further out than that one. Add to that battery loss in the cold, plus loss of battery capacity over time if you’ve had the car for a while, plus the vehicle having maybe already been driven that day without time to recharge completely . . . I can think of places up in that neck of the woods where I would be seriously worried that 1000km of rated range wouldn’t be enough, although it would be more than sufficient for where I’m now living.

  So I’m talking about shit that, in my experience, actually happens to actual people. The segment of the population involved is, admittedly, not all that large, but it’s of nonzero size—probably on the order of a few million, worldwide, spread through a number of countries that have large areas of empty nothing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BYD Reveals the ‘World’s Longest-Range EV’ as American Auto Industry Struggles to Keep Pace⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  1000km range is fucking stupid. No one should be driving that far at once

  I take it you’ve never had an emergency while living in a remote area. Especially not one with cold winters that will tank your EV’s range.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Discussion] What is your best BL anime?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have an enduring soft spot for Antique Bakery, although more the manga than the anime. (Isekai Office Worker is probably better, though.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chemists thought phosphorus had shown all its cards—until it surprised them with a new move⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Only in the US. Other countries will be able to push the prices down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Does it do anything that isn’t in response to a human’s prompting? No? Then it can’t be conscious. Consciousness requires having a sense of self, which implies having needs and desires that one acts to fulfill without needing prompting. Even a bacterium is more conscious than these things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Connected cars can be hacked, research finds⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is anyone actually surprised by this? It’s one of those things that any semi-competent programmer could have told you would be the case. The study just formalizes it and adds specifics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Episode] Fate/strange Fake - Episode 8 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And they just randomly dropped Caster’s name in the middle of all that . . .

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The creator of systemd wants your entire system validated by SecureBoot⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thing is, that means you don’t really own the hardware that you buy, because a corporation is dictating what you can do with it even though it doesn’t belong to them. Most of us consider that unacceptable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LibreOffice blasts 'fake open source' OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty noticeable that Gentoo Linux doesn’t offer an option to compile OnlyOffice locally—it’s only available as a -bin package, which means that it’s precompiled by upstream. That tells me that either the available source is too incomplete to actually compile the software from, or it has some really strange licensing. Either way, it can’t be open-source software in the accepted sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The creator of systemd wants your entire system validated by SecureBoot⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The chain of trust starts with the owner of the hardware, not some random corporation that happens to make an OS. The owner can, if they wish, outsource the root of the chain of trust to a corporation, but that should be an active decision on their part, not something that happens just because the hardware was shipped with some random OS preloaded.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  . . . And then the market will be flooded with RAM that companies preordered and can’t pay for, because the AI bubble burst before it could be manufactured.

  Hey, I can dream, right? And seriously, I would be quite happy if this causes an increase in dumb appliances, devices, and cars in the meanwhile.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China’s dancing robots: how worried should we be?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How concerned should I be when the documentation for complex devices coming out of China always seems to be so bad that no one except the people who designed them can program them anyway?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2026, Week 08]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Then the latest (and apparently last) episode of Gnosia,

  We’re not actually sure about that. The nature of the show is such that it might easily be another fakeout. Currently, livechart is claiming there will be another episode, but has no airdate for it. It’s hard to tell exactly what’s going on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 20 Darkest Anime Series of All Time, Ranked⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ergo Proxy is dark? Darker than, oh, Mahou Shoujo Site, Deadman Wonderland, Ajin, Promised Neverland, or any of a couple of dozen others? Someone needs to watch more anime.

  Now and Then, Here and There, on the other hand, deserves to be at the top of the list. That thing is brutal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why all Animes are made in Japan?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically those are donghua, not anime, though. Similar in style, different origin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Episode] Gnosia - Episode 18 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmmm. Livechart indicates that there will be an episode 19, but doesn’t have an air date. Maybe we’re in for a week’s hiatus?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dr. Oz pushes AI avatars as a fix for rural health care. Not so fast, critics say⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Telemedicine: better than nothing, already used a fair amount in the more inaccessible parts of Canada (ideally in combination with a nursing station so there’s someone with some training available to do things that absolutely need hands on location).

  AI medicine: likely worse than nothing, some people are going to get killed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Western Digital runs out of HDD capacity: CEO says massive AI deals secured, price surges ahead⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They do make hardware in most of those categories, actually, but they don’t sell much of it direct to consumer in the West. And unfortunately, the way things are going, they’re going to be able to get better prices for it from the AI-entranced idiots too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What dating apps are really optimizing. Hint: it isn’t love⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re really optimizing for the income of the people who make the apps. No surprise there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Free Tool Says it Can Bypass Discord's Age Verification Check With a 3D Model⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And thus begins the three-legged race between imaged-based age verification and kids. (Prediction: the kids will win, but it will take the other side a looooong time to admit it.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is browser preference a personality flaw? AI job interview evaluation raises questions— AI said applicant's 'habitual' Chrome use could indicate a 'lack of adaptability' after screening interview⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  LLMs need to have the same warnings attached as the old psychic hotlines: “Must be 18. For entertainment only.”

  That being said, I’m not sure that this is any more ridiculous than an ad asking for ten years’ experience with a piece of software that’s only existed for three. HR departments have never had much contact with reality.