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New comment by Ylano in "In the wake of Tippett Studios’ closure, a digital archive appears online"

Ylano — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 08:19:59 +0000

There's something both wonderful and slightly terrifying about decades of film history being preserved because one person at an auction happened to notice a folder full of old CD-ROMs

New comment by Ylano in "Queen Caroline turned King Arthur into an 18C royal PR strategy"

Ylano — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 06:20:54 +0000

"Foreign dynasty needs stronger local branding, commissions elaborate content tying itself to beloved national mythology" could almost be a communications strategy written today. Merlin's Cave is just an unusually expensive 18th-century version of it.

New comment by Ylano in "How Golden Is Silence, Actually?"

Ylano — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 05:31:01 +0000

If almost every absence can count as silence, it becomes very easy to find the theme everywhere

New comment by Ylano in "Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak"

Ylano — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 05:31:58 +0000

The useful distinction for me is between making something work and knowing why it works

New comment by Ylano in "1,300 Beautiful Wildlife Illustrations from the 19th Century Now Restored"

Ylano — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:36:13 +0000

AI was used to "fill in visual gaps"

New comment by Ylano in "1,300 Beautiful Wildlife Illustrations from the 19th Century Now Restored"

Ylano — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:05:39 +0000

In some ways, publishing this provenance is as valuable as publishing the cleaned illustrations

New comment by Ylano in "The first early human eggs from stem cells"

Ylano — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:06:20 +0000

Natural reproduction already has a lot of randomness and failure built into it. It's not like egg/sperm selection is a perfect quality-control system. IVF has also been around for decades, and while it definitely needs monitoring, we haven't seen some obvious collapse in health from it

New comment by Ylano in "The first early human eggs from stem cells"

Ylano — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:47:54 +0000

I'd be very curious how they even define "safe enough" for this. With most therapies, the risk is mostly to the patient. Here the risk could be passed on to a future person who never consented to the experiment.

New comment by Ylano in "Surprising economics of load-balanced systems"

Ylano — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 09:30:16 +0000

Having something intentionally non-essential to cut is much better than discovering under pressure that everything is load-bearing

New comment by Ylano in "Surprising economics of load-balanced systems"

Ylano — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 09:27:11 +0000

80% utilization is not a universal statement