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A style of animated TV show from Japan

Read the rest of the sentence.

Was the lockdown not during the pandemic?

Are these answers so critical they're needed on a holiday?

Don't the C parts of Linux heavily depend on GCC extensions too? Seems depending on specific compiler features isn't really a blocker.

How does OpenAI being liable for reproducing copyrighted material imply that a word processor should be as well? Last time I checked, word processors don't have a black box text ge…

I take it you think copyright shouldn't exist at all, then?

Obviously there's a limit, reproducing a single sentence is unlikely to be copyright infringement just because there are only so many words in a language; but if reproducing some t…

> I don’t think a country’s government can justify no commercial LLMs to its populace They're not saying no LLMs, they're saying no LLMs using lyrics without a license. OpenAI simp…

Why would you want to implement an entire typesetting engine yourself?

> Meat isn't tasty. If it was you wouldn't always eat it fried almost to a char with salt and spices. Allow me to introduce you to the concept of "steak".

That's a good point, I've personally not got much use out of LLMs (I use them to generate fantasy names for my D&D campaign, but find they fall down for anything complex) - but I'v…

But the crust is nice, why would you throw it away just because you're rich?

In the first paragraph: > I want to be clear that I am generally limiting my scope here to rigid non-powered armor. Power (or powered) armor – that is, armor that moves with built-…

Whether the registrar keeps doing business is irrelevant if the root nameservers stop serving NS for .io.

I agree that transparent and documented decisions are good evidence for not being corrupt, and I can see how you could argue that they're required (as a non-corrupt organisation th…

By god you've done it, you've solved linguistics!

Obviously the idea is to live longer with good mental and physical health. There's no point in living longer if your faculties are too degraded to enjoy it, you may as well just be…

Maybe this is one of those things that's harder to understand if you have an accounting background. As someone without an accounting background, I found it incredibly intuitive: if…

It's possible to have two important things and yet for one to be more important than the other.

Very few pieces of advice apply 100% in all situations regardless of the context. That doesn't mean the advice should be rejected out of hand.

How can you tell whether the problem is due to a software bug or due to a hardware fault though? The software could have thrown the "catastrophic failure, stop the world" exception…

Why would you block the port you're serving SSH on?

An unsolicited SMS every month sounds like a lot to me.

There's an uncountable number of numbers between 0 and 1, but you, a human, can only pick from a countable subset of those.