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This, and also that it hides away valid complaints about actual memory leaks. I can't remember the number of times I complained about Firefox leaking memory, and got brushed away as "that's just how Linux works, it fills your RAM for cache". Well, if it's just cache, why is it thrashing my PC everytime it fills up? This even led me to misunderstanding about how kswapd0 works, and prompted me to ask how to "disable swap" because the OOM won't fire as it used to in the olden days.

After some time, work forced me to switch back to Windows, and now everytime I see complaints about how Windows gobbles up RAM, I just say to myself, "Hah, that's how Linux works too!"


Isn't citing encyclopedias shunned in academia in the first place? Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and should be treated as such. I understand that access to primary sources can be difficult at times, but in that case, wouldn't an argument based on a citation from an encyclopedia have a shaky foundation?


Fun trivia: the greeting only started to become a thing during the Meiji era as part of moral and ethics education. It may be argued that it has its roots in Buddhist teachings, but there's a theory that the drive to make it a common household practice may have come from the envoys who came back from western countries and saw the Christian prayer and thought it was a good thing to imitate. It's quite a stretch, but personally I find it quite interesting given that it was an era where Westernization was the craze.


If true, kudos to them for shrinking it all down to one word. Saying "grace" can be an event to itself at some meals.


Good food, good meat, good god, let's eat!


Its really not that far fetched. Japan has quite a history of copying the aesthetic of things the west does while changing the meaning completely. Christmas is a romantic holiday in Japan, and it is considered fashionable to get married in a church, even though only about 2% of the country is Christian.


Isn't Germany an exception to that?


At long as it doesn't involve [multi purpose eggs](https://www.euronews.com/culture/2026/06/06/mehrzweckeier-di...) or calls to violence you should be fine.


I don't know. Can you not make jokes about the chancellor in Germany?


Sure .. just not jokes about how tall they are with a punchline that involves raising an arm to demonstrate.


Insulting people is a crime in Germany. If you said "Hitler was a poopy head" that'd be illegal. But they wouldn't bother to enforce that. If you say it about a real person, they can press charges.


fyi: insult is a so called "Antragsdelikt". That means authorities can only press charges when the victim files an official complaint. Otherwise they can't do anything.

Which also means they wouldn't be able to do anything about you saying "Hitler was a poopy head".


Does defamation laws apply to deceased too?


There's a separate law against insulting a dead person.


The majority of anime, at least the Japanese ones, do resemble each other a lot at times, but the AI anime style resembles none of them. It has this distinct style that makes it recognizable as AI art. It is more similar to the style used in illustrations, like the ones you see in many gacha games. And the same style is used even for AI generated comics and illustrations. I think that was the grandparent poster was trying to say when writing "consistent in every medium".

That said, AI is pretty good for creating goofy stuff that otherwise won't sell to the mainstream audiences. My recent favourite AI anime is Chemical Cooker Ryo.


The last time I heard HR being completely let go was with a fintech company Bolt. Then again, that company was midsized, around 200-500 people or so. For larger companies, it's going to be difficult to even realize that HR is redundant in the first place.


I think that's because it's easier to package a DOSbox program than a Win16 program (it had Win32 edition, but supposedly the installer itself was Win16). According to pcgamingwiki, there's a patch to convert the GOG DOS edition to the Win32 edition.


I have a very vague memory of being able to name streets, so this might be that.


I've never seen a CAS that gives two answers for sqrt. Mathematica doesn't, sympy doesn't, and IIRC Maxima also doesn't.


It'd be great if IDEs can store a stack of functions currently being explored similar to what you get when debugging. Not breadcrumbs, but plain stack. Bonus points if you can store multiple stacks, and give them names according to the context.


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