*Kaiju No. 8 2*, episode 8

Kaiju No. 8 2, episode 8

Sat 9/6/25 10:24pm

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Anime

So it turns out that not only does conflict build character, but it works the other way around, too. The Power Of Friendship wins the trial, and in the process we get a pretty-well-incorporated flashback that fills in some more details on Our Mighty Tsuntail’s mom. Pity she wasn’t there for it, but at least she shows up for a minute or two, continuing the offscreen path of “I must get stronger”.

Verdict: if this weren’t so good, I’d really hate the trope abuse.

(“🎶 1. cut a hole in a box 🎶”; unrelated, of course)

Power sucks

My MacBook Air is running out of power while plugged in, despite not even being warm to the touch. The Anker dock, on the other hand, is blistering hot. The CPU is barely ticking over, and Apple’s battery monitor even claims “No Apps Using Significant Energy”.

The culprit, of course, is “AI”. I’ve got LM Studio running a prompt-enhancement prompt with qwen2.5-7b-instruct, taking the output of my dynamic-prompt-generation script and improving it (which it’s actually pretty good at). I had to find the much-higher-wattage original Apple charger, which I’ve never needed to use before. It turns out there’s an “energy impact” field reported in Activity Monitor, but it doesn’t charge GPU/NPU usage to the correct app.

Apple’s so excited about moving fast and breaking things with “AI” that they can’t spare the engineering talent to update their tools to even report how much power LLMs are using on their products.

In fact, when you sort Activity Monitor by “energy impact”, LM Studio is at the top despite having a “score” that’s less than 10% of what Activity Monitor claims for itself. The only field that seems to be honest is “12 hr power”, which puts LM Studio an order of magnitude above the rest. But only because it’s been running for several hours, sigh.