The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity

Wonderful show. It’s a little saccharine, a little contrived, and narrowly specific to Japanese respect culture. But it does a wonderful job showcasing how to deal with issues of self-worth, communicating with intent and kindness, and how to constructively handle one’s emotions. It’s crazy that Cloverworks was making this, and My Dress Up Darling, and Rascal Does Not Dream of Santa Claus, all in the same season, and yet the animation quality is still high quality.

Koe no Katachi

It’s heavily edited down from the source material - whole parts of the plot are cut to make the story fit into a single movie. But it’s a powerful and impactful story about the value of communication and redemption. There’s a lot of overlap with Fragrant Flower, but it touches on darker and heavier themes. The manga is worth picking up if you’re interested in more. Also, it’s made by Kyoto Animation, and it’s one of their best.

Komi Can’t Communicate

This is more a personal choice, but I started reading Komi-san when it was around Chapter 100. There are 500 chapters in total. It’s… far far too much for a story about a girl, guess what, learning to communicate. But the best thing about the anime by a substantial margin is the first episode. This one episode alone is one of the most beautiful things I’ve seen, and it’s accompanied by a heart-tugging OST. Watch just the first episode, even if you don’t watch anything else.

Bocchi the Rock!

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At my 9-5, our time keeping software doesn’t even let you put in anything smaller than a quarter hour.

Ah, see that at least sounds plausible. I’ve used Google Translate to translate road signage with the camera, and it tries to position and resize text to fit the original sign. So if that kind of technology is happening here, that could make some sense.

…but then why wouldn’t you just let the browser translate it for you, since it would normalize the same font size across the entire text? Oh, if they were in the Threads app they wouldn’t have they available.

Regardless of the effect on circadian rhythm, I wonder if there’s any research on eye strain. I personally felt less strain when turning on dark mode or sepia filters, even in the evening.

Woah… I’m genuinely concerned for you. What are you talking about? A screenshot should be a 1:1 pixel perfect match to the screen. It’s a literal dump of the pixels on your monitor, that’s what happens when you Print Screen on your keyboard. Even screenshots on Android are full size captures of the entire screen - even the pixels obscured by front camera cutouts. I know this because I’ve taken screenshots from my phone and put them in Paint.NET, the resolution of the image is identical to the resolution of the phone, all text is of identical fonts (whatever the HTML/CSS of the page says it should be).

Unless you’re assuming AI post-processing is messing with images, but that’s a much bigger and separate concern. Screenshots can be manipulated, and that means you can be manipulated.

Funny, but hardly “escaping containment” when the screenshot was doctored to begin with.

Ah, fair. More between the web hoster and the ISP, rather than between the ISP and the customer.

Anybody have a good explanation of how the Cox communications case intersects with Net Neutrality? It seems like they would go hand in hand, a service provider has to provide the same service equally to all of its customers, regardless if they’re pirates are not. But I haven’t heard Net Neutrality come up in online discussions in a long time so.

Silly me why didn’t I think of that lol

Ah right I knew that rule but forgot to apply it here.

AI costs can compound

As anyone who knows the value of compound interest can tell you, this is NOT a flex lmfao

That’s an… interesting correlation they’re making, more code = more money. I know it’s not you personally making that comparison, but man is it strange. That’s a very business school way of thinking.

What good is “more code” from the LLMs, if I have to scrutinize it for bugs and vulnerabilities? More code only means more surface area, more points of failure. And of the AI I’ve tried, every single one writes far far far too much code. And all that time in code review, QA, user acceptance testing, that absolutely does not make the company more money - it costs them more money, in paying for labor. And it doesn’t get the product to the end user faster anyway.

I’m just ranting and this a minor point, but speed is also not the only metric I would care about. I’d also care about making sure the user doesn’t experience many bugs - preferably no bugs at all. The classic engineer’s triangle still holds: “Fast, Cheap, and Good: choose 2.” And AI seems to pick “Fast” twice. XD

Yeah I was about to say. I’m an American software engineer at 10 years in the industry. That number is roughly my yearly salary, and they’re talking monthly, so that’s like 12 of me. From what I’ve noticed in online job searches, European positions of roughly equal experience and skill levels get paid somewhere between 30-50% less. Is that because of the stronger welfare systems? Or maybe the differences in cost of living, which could vary based on country and region?

The author is way too generous offering their services to the Trump administration. The app is a massive security hole by design. This administration is not your standard business client, they are the attacker that you defend against.

If your adversaries buddies haven’t already done this analysis, they’re having a slow good week.

Yeah I figure it was something like that.

I got bad news

Science fiction author Neal Stephenson, who coined the term “metaverse” Metaverse inventor

That’s not what inventing means. That’s like saying George Lucas “invented” hyperspace.

This isn’t even the actual article headline, it’s “Head-mounted VR hardware will never happen, says Neal Stephenson - who coined the term ‘metaverse’”. OP?

I second CITY the Animation. Pokemon Horizons first season was a strong start for an Ash-less reboot of the anime.

replaces it with an AI-generated version assembled on the fly. The user never sees what your team built

Oh good, DLSS 5 for websites. Just what we needed.

Oh piss off with this “its just administrative tasks bro, it’s just meant to replace secretaries bro.” Nobody believes that garbage.

You think “accounting and admin stuff is not dangerous?” That those tasks don’t “actually matter?” Please tell the IRS that excuse when it files your taxes wrong, and let me know what they say.