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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Apothecary Diaries Season 2 • Kusuriya no Hitorigoto 2nd Season - Episode 24 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Sad to say, the first thing that popped into my head when Maomao said, “It was a woman,” was, “For someone who grew up in the pleasure district, you sure lack imagination.” I guess I’m incorrigible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China bans uncertified and recalled power banks on planes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  They have less power density than other lithium-ion chemistries when both are new, but the dropoff over time is also less. That means that unless you replace your power banks fairly often, the LiFePO₄ version is likely to have higher density for much of its lifetime. They also tolerate at least double the number of charging cycles.

  Not sure how to go about marketing that in our current disposable society, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PNG has been updated for the first time in 22 years — new spec supports HDR and animation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There were two different animated PNG extensions, MNG and APNG. Neither of them ever really caught on. I guess they’re hoping to do better by baking it into the core spec.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK to be first country to use AI healthcare system to prevent future scandals⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So they’re outsourcing causing scandals to an LLM? I suppose that’s a novel use of the technology.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spring Anime Season Wrap-Up, Summer Kickoff, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 27]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Trigun - Verrrry slowly been watching the OG classic. I’m only a few episodes away from the end. Finally some more backstory filling in details! It’s good, but I’m not quite blown away, while something like OG Cowboy Bebop still holds up.

  It’s the last four episodes that really make the show on this one, so you may yet change your mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Decline of Usability: Revisited | datagubbe.se⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  People who wonder why I use a Linux desktop environment whose appearance and behaviour are basically unchanged from what they were 20 years ago, and daily drive a browser that forked from Firefox 27 and still uses that UI: this is why.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Misogyny and Violent Extremism: Can Big Tech Fix the Glitch?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Betteridge’s Law of Headlines . . . but they’re not even trying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨12 New Summer Anime Releases to Add to Your Watch List Right Now⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Lord of the Mysteries

  I’ll watch. It wasn’t in the seasonal list for summer, so nice catch
  

  I suspect it wasn’t on the seasonal list because it’s a donghua rather than an anime in the strict sense. The first episode suggests it may end up being style over substance, but it’s got enough style that I’ll continue with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spring Anime Season Wrap-Up, Summer Kickoff, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 27]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Silly Awards Time!

  • Toilet Humour Award: Apocalypse Hotel, which was surprisingly good despite the number of times poop came up.
  • Most Overhyped: Lazarus, which was an okay popcorn action series but didn’t deserve anything like the amount of promotion it got. At least it was better than Fractale.
  • Most Deceptive First Episode: Kowloon Generic Romance, whose first episode plays like, well, a generic wallflower x pushy asshole romance setup. Until you hit the very end and realize that it’s something else entirely. Runner-up: Yami Healer, whose first episode was just awful, while the rest of the show was okay brain candy. Honourable mention: Once Upon a Witch’s Death—I haven’t finished it yet, but as of the midpoint it seems to be morphing from tearjerker-of-the-week to having a larger plot that affects more than just Meg and her town.
  • Biggest Missed Opportunity to Transmit Lore: Your Forma. Instead of repeating the “amicus robot” blurb at the very beginning of each episode, they could have put different sequences in there each time to provide direly needed explanations about other aspects of the setting. The only way to figure out what “your forma” actually is is to read the series’ description blurb on a website; it’s never explained inside the show.
  • Dishonourable Mention for Harm to Kitties: Your Forma again.
  • Most Confusing: Bye Bye Earth, still. The reveal in the next-to-last episode explains some of the weirdnesses of the setting, but not others. A lot of the lore surrounding the swords is still incoherent, for instance.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spring Anime Season Wrap-Up, Summer Kickoff, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 27]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  One thing I have wondered since season 1 is why its target demographic is seinen. IMO suspense is one of those genres that cater to all age groups and genders.

  Hmmm. Shounen publishers might have thought that a political-intrigue-based story with a female lead wouldn’t be popular enough with their demographic, and josei tends so strongly toward mundane modern-day settings with romance that an historical whose romance is very slow burn might have been a hard sell. Shoujo might have fit, but I suspect there weren’t enough flowers, sighs, and bishounen. (Saiunkoku Monogatari, which is the most similar other series I can think of, has a much higher number of pretty young men in the cast and was published as shoujo.)

  So it might have ended up seinen by default.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What horror anime scared you the most?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The last part (or two parts?) of the Vampire Princess Miyu OAV when I first saw it ~30 years ago. Of course, it probably didn’t help that I was watching it at weird o’clock in the morning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I Left My A-Rank Party" Season 2 Announced with Visual⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  got to admit the first season wasn’t exactly memorable

  Yeah, it’s pretty much mediocre from start to finish. Not horrible in any category, but the only thing that makes it stand out from all the other “loser is thrown out of adventuring party, then shows that he’s actually pretty competent and gets a harem masquerading as a new party” shows of the past few years is the fact that they made a second cours of it (and now, apparently, a third).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Apothecary Diaries Season 2 • Kusuriya no Hitorigoto 2nd Season - Episode 23 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  though, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was the resurrection potion

  Loulan’s words to Jinshi about people who have “already died once” being let off the hook feels like they almost guarantee it, but I guess we’ll find out for sure next episode.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apocalypse Hotel - Episode 12 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, but not for want of trying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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

  The bad thing: half of them haven’t.