Monday, April 17
Daily News Stuff 17 April 2023
Missed It By That Much Edition
So I was hunting around Crunchyroll for something worth watching and I tripped over Ningen Fushin. The story was different enough to give it a try, the characters aren't too aggravating, and it has an animation budget of at least 500 yen.
Missed It By That Much Edition
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- I noted last week that the RTX 4070 was overpriced in Australia, needing to be under $1000 if it were to have any chance of success.
Today - just days after the launch - some cards have already been reduced to $999.
Still fat and ugly - the nicer two-slot models have not seen price cuts - but at least slightly less horribly expensive.
- The Gigabyte Aero 16 is also overpriced in Australia.
Just saying.
Tech News
- If you just updated your development server from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04 and all your LXC containers lost their IP addresses, it's probably a firewall thing. (Linux Containers)
And what's more, an easily fixed firewall thing. Basically LXC can't talk to itself to obtain its own IP addresses. Dumb but fixable.
- Starlark is Python with all the exciting stuff removed. (GitHub)
Making it safe to use as an embedded scripting language.
In fact, you can embed it within Python to use Python code to script other Python code. Only the library to do that doesn't pass callables in either direction - except for the print function - so back to Lupa and LuaJIT I go.
I mean, I could overload the print function to do everything I need, but it's kind of hacky.
- Leading AI companies are eager for onerous government regulation. (New York Times)
Because - though the article fails to grasp this obvious point because it is written by an idiot - that will crush smaller competitors.
- Finland just fired up a new nuclear reactor, the first in Europe in 18 years. (Reuters)
Right as Germany shut theirs down.
One country will be snug and warm next winter. The other will get to freeze in the dark.
- Lenovo's Tab M9 is here, so if you wanted a small (ish) Android tablet with a crappy low-resolution screen, you can now choose from 7, 8, or 9 inches. (Liliputing)
The 7 inch model is complete garbage though.
Still no replacement for the Tab M8 FHD. Not from Lenovo, not from anyone.
Hidden Delights Music Video of the Day
So I was hunting around Crunchyroll for something worth watching and I tripped over Ningen Fushin. The story was different enough to give it a try, the characters aren't too aggravating, and it has an animation budget of at least 500 yen.
Seriously, the fight scenes are barely animated at all.
This ending, though, is wonderful. I'm going to watch the whole season just so I get to see this ending eleven times.
Disclaimer: Would have bought two if I'd known.
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I dropped Disillusioned Adventurers after episode 5, because the only character I was interested in was the dragonette. I considered going back through after it finished, so I could skim for the good parts, but haven't gotten around to it. The ED was nice, but made me wish there was a show about that, rather than what we got.
-j
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Tuesday, April 18 2023 06:13 AM (oJgNG)
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I saw one comment that suggested the show we got is just the D&D campaign of the characters in the ending credits.
It's not bad, but apart from those 90 seconds it's not great either.
It's not bad, but apart from those 90 seconds it's not great either.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, April 18 2023 01:00 PM (PiXy!)
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Okay, episode 5 is stupid. I can see why you dropped it at that point.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, April 18 2023 06:32 PM (PiXy!)
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"the article fails to grasp this obvious point because it is written by an idiot"
It's Ezra Klein, so you can't discount the notion that it might be left out through malice, not idiocy.
It's Ezra Klein, so you can't discount the notion that it might be left out through malice, not idiocy.
Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, April 19 2023 01:06 AM (2Mei2)
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Pixy's Corollary to Hanlon's Razor: Do not be hasty to exclude to likelihood of malicious idiots.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, April 19 2023 01:50 PM (PiXy!)
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