nyan
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- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 2 days ago:
With the LLM pushers driving hardware prices through the roof, will any of us be able to afford these?
- Comment on What Happened To WebAssembly 3 days ago:
Speaking based on my own PC in that era: it had 512MB RAM and the video card was capable of running FFVII PC version with hardware drivers, so there was some very modest and primitive 3D capability buried in there somewhere. I believe the CPU was a ~500 MHz P3, so I’ll grant you that one, and the one about RAM speed. Well, I did only claim they were “somewhat similar”.
- Comment on Wi-Fi 7 Marketing is Lying About it's Biggest Feature 4 days ago:
Wi-Fi 7Marketing is Lying ~About it’s Biggest Feature~Truth in advertising is pretty much nonexistent these days. Assume they’re lying until proven otherwise.
- Comment on What Happened To WebAssembly 4 days ago:
Except that it isn’t really the first iteration of any of those things. Java did most of 'em more than a quarter century ago: browser-embedable, multiple languages could target the JVM, and, yes, sandboxed—the only issue was startup (not runtime) performance. That wasm doesn’t share those startup performance woes makes it useful, but not revolutionary.
As for tiny environments, a typical desktop system from around 1999 is somewhat similar to a Pi Zero W in terms of ability.
- Comment on [Episode] Gnosia - Episode 16 discussion 1 week ago:
My question now is, how thoroughly does one of the Yuris have to be destroyed in order to prevent the universe from collapsing? Is erasure-by-gnosia the only acceptable method, or would it be sufficient, say, for bug-Yuri to throw themself into a sun before real-Yuri wakes from the healing pod?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
It almost became my Christmas rewatch this year, but in the end I decided I needed something with a stronger adventure/action vibe to distract me from the world we’re now living in. 🫤
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Yeah. It’s pretty much a half-assed attempt to grab onto the coattails of the much better Madoka Magica.
- Comment on “I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World and Became Unrivaled in The Real World, Too” | Special Key Visual 1 week ago:
I think it’s just a one-shot special, set to air a couple of months from now.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2026, Week 06] 1 week ago:
Trigun Stargaze - still more or less following the original story, so now we’re moving into Legato and the Gung-ho Guns (though I don’t think that name has been used for them, and I assume at least the cheesier ones from the original aren’t going to appear in this more serious reboot).
Most of the Gung-Ho Guns in the first anime were taken from the Trigun Maximum manga (the exceptions were Caine the Longshot, who was a pure anime-original, and Chapel the Evergreen, who had been mentioned but not depicted in the manga at the time, so the anime team created their own character design). So the rest of them—Midvalley, Zazie, and so on—may well show up in the rebooted anime.
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 1 week ago:
At that point, you’ve put multiple man-hours into analyzing the response required to placate it, and it isn’t a “cheap” device anymore. Easier to return it.
- Comment on [Episode] Sentenced to Be a Hero • Yuusha Kei ni Shosu: Choubatsu Yuusha 9004-tai Keimu Kiroku - Episode 4 discussion 1 week ago:
Well, we know now why one of the “heroes” has a Japanese name. I’m currently trying to decide whether Tatsuya ended up with the worst isekai experience I’ve ever encountered, or not. (The biggest competition, currently, is the guy who got offed in the first episode of Shokei Shoujo no Virgin Road without ever understanding what was going on.)
- Comment on Tesla's 'unsupervised' Robotaxis vanish a week after pre-earnings announcement 1 week ago:
Double your traffic congestion, or your money back!
. . . or not, since I’ve never heard of Tesla voluntarily refunding anything.
- Comment on Chrome is also turning into an agentic browser with its newest update 1 week ago:
If they’re auditing that many of them, there will be a queue, too.
- Comment on What technology takes from us – and how to take it back 1 week ago:
Only in the US. But they do tend to be measured and sold by volume (rather than weight) in contexts like farmer’s markets and pick-your-own operations.
- Comment on [Episode] Gnosia - Episode 15 discussion 2 weeks ago:
Nevertheless Racqio could not keep his mouth shut and screwed up by revealing too much to Yuri.
Racqio is both very smart and very impressed by their own intelligence. As such, the writers picked a very in-character way for them to screw up. 😀
- Comment on Perceiving AI as a 'job killer' negatively influences attitudes towards democracy— When people perceive AI as replacing human labour, trust in democracy and political participation decline 2 weeks ago:
Problem is, we’ve never found a better system. They all suck, in various ways, many of them far worse than representative democracy. And that’s even if no one’s messing with the details of the setup to keep a certain group in power.
- Comment on In a 38-page essay, Dario Amodei warns of civilization-level damage from superintelligent AI, questioning whether humanity has the maturity to handle such power 2 weeks ago:
If we actually had superintelligent AI, I might be concerned. But what we have instead is stochastic parrots with no innate volition. In and of themselves, they aren’t dangerous at all—it’s the humans backing them that we have to be wary of.
- Comment on [Episode] Fate/strange Fake - Episode 4 discussion 2 weeks ago:
Yup, I nailed Saber’s ID. We now have names for 6 of a presumed 13 Heroic Servants,
spoiler because I'm not sure his name has actually been spoken in this series yet, as opposed to in Fate/Grand Order
although I don’t think Enkidu’s class has been mentioned yet (by process of elimination on the first group of six, it would have to be Lancer or Rider).
- Comment on Microsoft Windows 365 goes down the day after Microsoft celebrates 'reimagining the PC as a cloud service that streams a Cloud PC' 2 weeks ago:
Because AIs don’t understand physics. Or anatomy, given that Tux has three flippers here. (Nor do the upper swooshes make visual sense.)
- Comment on Clevatess Season 2 Key Visual 2 weeks ago:
Looks about the same facially to me. He might be taller, but it’s hard to tell when they’re only showing him from the hips up.
- Comment on DRAM shortage fuels fake GPU scams as China-based fraudsters exploit the supply crisis — RTX 4080 GPU sold at cut price was actually an RTX 3060 mobile chip with fake VRAM 3 weeks ago:
Someone too lazy to update their listings to reflect a rising sticker price (or not wishing to do so for other reasons) isn’t too good to be true. If they’re an established business selling new-in-box items at more than the wholesale price they would have paid (around 50% of the lowest sticker price the good’s ever been sold at isn’t a bad estimate), then you may have found a genuinely good deal.
It’s when someone starts selling at below their cost (unless it’s obviously to clear out old inventory or the like) that things get suspicious.
- Comment on DRAM shortage fuels fake GPU scams as China-based fraudsters exploit the supply crisis — RTX 4080 GPU sold at cut price was actually an RTX 3060 mobile chip with fake VRAM 3 weeks ago:
You only need one piece of (timeless) advice regarding what to look for, really: if it looks too good to be true, it almost certainly is. Caveat emptor.
Seriously, ending up with nothing is always a risk you run when buying something advertised as non-functional in the hope of fixing it or recovering any undamaged parts. The fact that the components on this card weren’t original is almost irrelevant, because the result would have been the same if they were authentic but damaged beyond recovery.
- Comment on [Episode] Gnosia - Episode 14 discussion 3 weeks ago:
Thing is, if Yuri says outright that one of the humans aboard is (in effect) a pathological liar, Yuri will probably be accused of being a gnosia making an inept attempt to sow dissent. It might not even be the ACF making that accusation, because it’s such an outlandish thing to say. If Yuri is voted out, then they’ve failed Yuriko’s test.
As for Kukrushka, if she really is the Guardian Angel (there’s nothing that says she isn’t the ACF and lying about the other, technically), she might have chosen to protect Jonas on the first round, due to emotional attachment or something—we still don’t know what’s going on with those two.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2026, Week 04] 3 weeks ago:
Maybe it’s just confirmation bias on my part, but it just seems like these kinds of shows are more likely to actively receive bad reviews than be ignored, which is what happens to most of the stuff that I would judge as truly bad. Compare, for instance, Hell Mode, an utterly cliched isekai that’s also currently running and which I would say was more deserving of bad reviews, because its creator wouldn’t recognize an original idea if it bit them—not one word’s been said about it. Even Beheneko, which was an unapologetic brainless boobfest held together by a thin surface skin of plot, didn’t draw as many bad reviews here as Sentenced to be a Hero.
Upon reflection, the answer might simply be that the people who are giving this one bad reviews watch a lot less trash than I do and therefore have a differently calibrated evaluation scale.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2026, Week 04] 3 weeks ago:
Sentenced to Be a Hero the characters are frankly a drag
I find it interesting to see multiple members of this community - myself included - shit on its first episode despite how well-received it was among the broader anime community. Looks like we are just not the target demographic.
Dark/edgy fantasy doesn’t seem to be very popular around here, it’s true. Makes me feel a bit isolated sometimes, as someone who does like those kinds of shows. 😅
- Comment on [Episode] Fate/strange Fake - Episode 3 discussion 3 weeks ago:
I find myself more curious about Caster’s identity than Saber’s. Saber I can at least make a guess at, based on his “Loxley” remark, but Caster is a total blank.
- Comment on First-In-Human Trial Of CRISPR Gene-Editing Therapy Safely Lowered Cholesterol, Triglycerides 3 weeks ago:
I suspect they’re making an unwarranted assumption that the experimental patient ended up with high cholesterol due to excessive consumption of animal products (rather than, say, a genetic defect that would cause them to overproduce it regardless of diet) and applying some typical vegan arguments regarding livestock farming. No need to listen to them.
- Comment on [Episode] Gnosia - Episode 13 discussion 4 weeks ago:
She also seemed to have a lot of information she was withholding, why?
Maybe it’s just Yuriko’s personality? She seems to enjoy acting superior.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2026, Week 03] 4 weeks ago:
For what it’s worth, I’ve also seen it, although it was quite some time ago. My feelings about it at the time were mixed—it was interesting in many ways, but there were also aspects of it that I could have done without, and unfortunately it’s mostly the bits I could have done without (like that one torture scene) that have stuck with me.
- Comment on AI-generated isekai novel that won a literary contest Grand Prize and Reader’s Choice award has its book publication and manga adaptation cancelled 4 weeks ago:
Well, all the entrants could have been AI-generated isekai novels.