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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Because modest returns don’t attract investment, so whoever set it up would have to fund the startup out of pocket and never go public or sell the company off. Not quite impossible, but very unlikely (unless the world changes and investors start getting more sensible about profits).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whiplash from bouncing between shows⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The recent Fugukan. One episode of (highly predictable) grimdark followed by (highly predictable) wall-to-wall harem fluff, and even on the rare occasions when it got marginally serious again, it was never on the level of the first episode.

  Pretty bad show, even by the standards of forgettable fantasy light novel adaptations. If you haven’t seen it, don’t bother.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top 10 Anime of the Week #2 - Spring 2025 (Anime Corner)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh. I thought there were fewer romcoms than usual on this list. Then I went back and checked, and discovered that that’s because there are fewer romcoms than usual airing this season.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Most Printable 3D Printer Yet⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  All technically true, but how many man-hours would it take to calculate the set of holes necessary to print each layer of a non-trivial object (say, a Benchy) without electronic assistance? I’m sure it could be done, but most people couldn’t do it in a practical timeframe. Taking presliced gcode and translating it via an automatic or even a manual system should be doable, but you still need a computer to slice the model into gcode.

  Jacquard looms are a whole other crottle of greeps. Each warp position gets either raised or lowered, so it’s in essence a binary model rather than full analog—conceptually much simpler than this printer, whose punch language is going to have to include slots for longer motor moves. I’d guess that, in the old days, Jacquard patterns were set up for manual punching by drawing up a diagram (which would look like a piece of black-and-white pixel art) and transferring the information one row at a time to the punch. That doesn’t seem like it would work for this printer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Most Printable 3D Printer Yet⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting, but not terribly useful unless you have a separate, likely electronics-driven, machine to punch plastic sheets for it (or have a pre-existing sheet defining something you want to replicate a bazillion of). It’s an ingenious but very niche machine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Go! Go! Loser Ranger! Season 2 • Sentai Daishikkaku 2nd Season - Episode 2 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hopefully everyone will be too busy with the creepiness here to notice that D has all but blown his cover . . .

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman • Katainaka no Ossan, Kensei ni Naru - Episode 3 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We don’t know how long it’s been since Beryl and his father last fought. My bet is that the old man started refusing challenges at least a decade ago, if not more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CVE fallout: The splintering of the standard vulnerability tracking system has begun⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What % of its GDP does the Netherlands have to put into international aid to make seventh place?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did Trump’s Scientific Advisor Admit That The US Possesses Space And Time Manipulation Tech? Internet Is Wilding⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe not. Maybe every attempt to tamper with the timeline brought in unforeseen complications that made everything worse, and that’s how we ended up where we are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World's first 3D-texture UV printer for consumers now available for pre-order — prints onto 'nearly any surface'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems like an interesting piece of kit. (Not $1500USD of interesting for me in the current economic climate, though, especially with no indication of Linux support.) Would be nice to know the cost of the consumables beyond the “starter ink bundle”. Would also be nice to know more about how the prints are expected to hold up long-term, and what the “nearly” part of “nearly any surface” implies—are there common substances it won’t print to?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's easier than ever to de-censor videos⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Or a white box. Or a purple-and-pink gradient box. It was always the most reliable method anyway, since it ensures that there’s no real information within the bounds of the box to be recovered. As far as I can see, the only reason for the popularity of the filters is that they look a bit less jarring.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman • Katainaka no Ossan, Kensei ni Naru - Episode 2 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, except the one who’s taken over the dojo, but I doubt we’ll see him very often.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4chan hacked and taken offline. Hacker reopens /qa/ and leaks all admins emails.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If so, it’s a fitting way for them to die.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The US Secretary of Education referred to AI as ‘A1,’ like the steak sauce⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Does that mean it might be possible to trick Musk and company into investing in steak sauce instead of AI? Even if we end up with a whole bunch of unwanted condiments we then have to destroy, that strikes me as a win.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re assuming they’ll ever release you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which Browser Should I Use In 2025? - Hackaday⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people are uncomfortable with it being closed-source. It’s more of a philosophical objection than a criticism of the browser’s functionality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Data centers contain 90% crap data⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If the storage all belongs to one machine, yes. If it’s spread across multiple machines with similar setups that share a LAN, then you need to put in a little thought to make sure that there’s only one copy for all machines, but it’s still doable.

  In this case, we’re talking millions of machines with different owners, OSs, network security setups, etc. that are only connected across the Internet. The logistics are enough to make a hardened sysadmin blanch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Beginning After the End • Saikyou no Ousama, Nidome no Jinsei wa Nani wo Suru? - Episode 1 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s obviously spending too much time on internal narration to want to talk to anyone else. 😜

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Data centers contain 90% crap data⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If the data has value, then yes, duplication is a good thing up to a point. The thesis is that only 10% of the data has value, though, and therefore duplicating the other 90% is a waste of resources.

  The real problem is figuring out which 10% of the data has value, which may be more obvious in some cases than others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tools that Just Work™ …until they don’t⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If your requirements deviate in any way from the common use cases envisioned by the designer, you will spend more time wrestling “it just works” into doing what you want than you would have spent on the setup of “flexible, but requires a little setup”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are alternative sources for these . . . but the US has pissed all of those countries off too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Data centers contain 90% crap data⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Massive deduplication across all accounts on all servers of image, audio, and video data would theoretically be possible, but ain’t gonna happen. Or we could just discourage people from posting cat videos and bad memes (even less likely to happen).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Data centers contain 90% crap data⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sturgeon’s Law in action again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“It Wouldn’t Be Surprising If, in Two Years’ Time, There Was a Film Made Completely Through AI”: Says Hayao Miyazaki’s Own Son⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  :cough: “Twins HinaHima” :cough: (Admittedly only about a third of a feature film in runtime, but that’s close enough for me. However, I haven’t been able to find any English-language information on just how much of the work the AI was responsible for.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Beginning After the End • Saikyou no Ousama, Nidome no Jinsei wa Nani wo Suru? - Episode 1 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually, there is one other slight difference from your average reincarnation story: they actually tried to depict how it would really, really suck to be an infant with an adult mind . . . but confined to a crib and with no bowel or bladder control. That’s something these stories usually try to gloss over.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Winter Anime Season Wrap-Up Discussion [2025, Week 14]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Silly awards time!

  • Best dragon award: From Bureaucrat to Villainess. There was actually a decent amount of competition for this one this time, but cute little dual-elemental dragon won.
  • Originality in hairstyling award: Zenshu, of course. With The Red Ranger Becomes an Adventurer as runner-up, because that elf with the afro (elfro?) was . . . memorable.
  • Bad CGI horse award: Aparida. Unless I’m confusing it with the very similar Fugukan. The horses in that one episode were memorably bad, but the show itself is not very memorable at all. (And I seem to be using the word “memorable” way too much.)
  • Rub-a-dub-dub award: Beheneko. I am in awe of how they managed to shoehorn a bath scene into every single episode, even if it was taking place entirely in a dungeon. Evidence that this is a show that knows it shouldn’t take itself seriously, I guess.
  • General hygiene award: Possibly the Greatest Alchemist of All Time. I dropped this a couple of episodes in, but was impressed that they directly tackled one of my top-ten reasons for not wanting to be isekai’d into a fantasy world: the flush toilet, or the lack thereof.
  • Cognitive dissonance in costuming award: Ubel Blatt. Sorry, guys, but grimdark + scanty women’s combat outfits that protect nothing has been a combination that won’t fly for at least the past thirty years. Go watch Berserk about a dozen times for some pointers on how to do it right.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Apothecary Diaries Season 2 • Kusuriya no Hitorigoto 2nd Season - Episode 12 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, dear, she insulted his frog. Now they’ll never be able to have a proper relationship. 🤣

  (Somehow I knew that she was going to figure out that he was an intact male in that or a very similar way, even before these two episodes. It’s just so . . . Maomao.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hina releases sodium-ion battery solution for commercial cars, able to be fully charged in 25 minutes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Appliances have potentially serious failure modes that don’t involve battery fires. (We had one here a couple of weeks ago, which would have flooded out our basement if I hadn’t been able to cut power to the pump involved.) Being able to cut the power completely and instantly is not negotiable for a lot of appliances. I wasn’t even taking battery fires into consideration when I wrote about failure modes—I was talking about things that already happen to plug-in appliances right now.

  Yes, the added weight and complexity are likely not all that significant here, but they’re sufficient that, even without the power-cutting issues, they outweigh any benefit of attaching a battery to the appliance directly. It’s just not a particularly useful idea when you get pretty much the same benefits with none of the downsides by incorporating the batteries into the building’s power system separately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hina releases sodium-ion battery solution for commercial cars, able to be fully charged in 25 minutes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Adding batteries to a device has one advantage: portability. It also has mutiple disadvantages: batteries add weight, add design complexity, and make it more difficult to fully shut off power in an emergency.

  Major household appliances aren’t portable, and are subject to failure modes where you really do want to cut all the power right now and make sure it stays that way. Thus, the disadvantages of adding batteries directly to an appliance outweigh the advantages.

  A power wall using this new battery tech would be great, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From Bureaucrat to Villainess: Dad's Been Reincarnated! • Akuyaku Reijou Tensei Oji-san - Episode 12 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, that’s one hell of an unresolved implication about Anna’s and Grace’s mothers to end with. I’m catching a whiff of Unfinished Manga Syndrome here.