That’s because someone took the time to pull out the minimum required interface code from systemd to make elogind after gnome made such a mess of things. It’s a band-aid. More band-aids will no doubt be created to deal with this. It’s just that the necessity is annoying.

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

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?

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.

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.

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

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.)

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.

I mean, it’s possible that the identity of the engineer isn’t restricted if there are no gnosia aboard, but the instant test result seems a lot more sketchy. Unless Levi is infected or otherwise problematic in the loops where gnosia are present, and this is how things are supposed to work. (Or maybe it’s a genuine writer-screw-up plothole.)

So it’s now been confirmed that there is something really wrong with Kaya-chan herself, not just with the unborn baby.

With the LLM pushers driving hardware prices through the roof, will any of us be able to afford these?

It isn’t really so strange that they aren’t used, if you think about it. Floating point is subject to fuzziness in the last several digits, and you can’t guarantee that a given value is going to round the same way when you’re dealing with multiple arches (or even multiple versions of what’s nominally the same arch, since optimizations change over time). Undefined behaviour is nasty. Floating point is useful for many things, but I’d keep it out of a cross-platform system kernel unless I liked hard-to-diagnose bugs.

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”.

Wi-Fi 7 Marketing is Lying About it’s Biggest Feature

Truth in advertising is pretty much nonexistent these days. Assume they’re lying until proven otherwise.

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.

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?

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. 🫤

Yeah. It’s pretty much a half-assed attempt to grab onto the coattails of the much better Madoka Magica.

I think it’s just a one-shot special, set to air a couple of months from now.

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 and 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.