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Princess Mononoke just has a slow gradual buildup. It builds the world and plays with plot tension and progression in interesting ways. Then saves the climax for the end of the fil…

Statins are dangerous... they block cholesterol, which incidentally, is fundamental, crucial, even, to the formation of both cell membranes and innumerable important hormones. They…

> If you want really long battery life and no heat at all, you can downclock all the way to something like 200-400MHz. A recent CPU at that speed is actually quite usable for thing…

The real solution for laptops ~ just disable boost! (Granted, you might have to disable it via /sys every boot, but that can be scripted...) Laptops shouldn't be using boost anyway…

> It’s hard to be sure that anything has understanding beyond being able to be emit finely tuned responses though. It’s entirely plausible that humans differ from chatGPT only in t…

> Intellectual property concepts in their current form started to appear as soon as prints, so about the 15th century. Copyright is not the same as intellectual property. Copyright…

> Not sure about all its filters being RL. Sometimes it seems to flag its output as inappropriate because of a single word (or none at all). Also it has asymmetric behavior, e.g. i…

Given some of Intel's shady history, I'm not sure I'd like them to become the ones who take over from TSMC if anything goes south. They would probably have a monopoly, and with tha…

> I think it's inevitable given the geopolitical situation in Taiwan that someone eats TSMC's lunch on America's dollar. China will almost certainly invade in the next decade, and …

> Gnome is the boring, serious, stop-fiddling-and-get-things-done UI. Gnome these days is the my-way-or-the-highway kind of uncle. They're actively hostile to user theming, for exa…

Overall, I get the feeling that women have far more confidence issues than men do, sadly. Women aren't being systematically oppressed ~ but confidence issues might lead them to bel…

> CS is built on abstractions, which make things more modular and easier to think about. CS also leads to generally garbage performance with its abstractions, because computers sim…

Snap? Yeah, well, containers can be slow beasts, and Canonical's container solution is especially awful. Compare the Snap version of something to a non-container version, and see h…

My Linux distro has never slowed down for me, except where I've personally done some weird config muckup. And I know exactly who is to blame... insert "of course I know him, he's m…

Linux file managers manage to be nice and snappy. On my machine, KDE's Dolphin, on an NVME, takes, maybe, 4 seconds to open and scan a folder that has more than 9000 folders and fi…

They can take it back. Heard of Betterbird? Yeah, a Thunderbird port.

Even since having tried raw tuna, my personal opinion has been the reverse. For me, a nice raw tuna can be absolutely amazing. Something about the flavour and texture just pops in …

Title shamelessly stolen from the Phoronix article also discussing it: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Qt-Digit... Why? I have no originality... -_- Primarily, …

That's a pretty awful hot take. Unless this is some terribly poor trolling, in which case I've taken your bait...

No, it most certainly can't. The flu, like all viruses like it, mutates quite rapidly. It'll just mutate in response to the "one shot" to get around it. So, "one shot" will turn in…

They're relatively smart in that they can quite intelligently navigate their environment to best get at prey that might otherwise kill them. Really, all animals are relatively smar…

So, an appeal to tradition is all you have? Just because it's a Buddhist practice, and it's ancient, that's all you need...? The same can be said about any other religious practice…

> Given that all human behavior can (very likely) be reduced to mathematical equations There is no scientific evidence whatsoever for this very bold claim.

I'll never use Chrome, given the increasingly-worrying directions Google is taking it. Google has too much influence and power, and has become the new Microsoft in terms of browser…