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1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Aug-2024 07:02:17 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   There are 49 symbols used in standard Taiwanese Hokkien. Of these 49 symbols, 26 are from the original Mandarin Phonetic Symbols, while 23 are additional, created for Taiwanese languages.

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwanes…
2. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 12-Aug-2024 13:57:30 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   Party-pooper fact-check in the next comment, but here's the story as it was told to me when I was on Iceland:

   There is a lake some ways from Akureyri called Mývatn ("mosquito water"), and the island in the middle is a flourishing green only because mosquitoes fly out there, breed and die, their bodies fertilizing and contributing to the topsoil over the volcanic rock.

   It's in effect a vampire island.

   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 12-Aug-2024 14:06:18 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     in reply to

     Party pooper fact check after I have been carrying this fantastic story with me for most of my life:

     There are no mosquitoes on Iceland. None. There is no mosquito species with a lifecycle that fits the climate. That's a pretty fantastic and cool fact on its own, though.

     snopes.com/fact-check/no-mosqu…

     Mývatn means "midge lake", close enough, but according to random hiking tourists on the web, the vast vast majority of midges on Iceland are non-biting ones.

   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 12-Aug-2024 23:59:31 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     • Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

     considered true flies

     😲

     That mosquito-carried diseases kill more people each year than hippos do

     @Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} They kill more people than a *lot* of things.

     I know hippos are murder horse tanks, but are you saying humans and hippos interact so much that it's a significant statistic? I would have thought people would stay clear and vice versa.

3. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 12-Aug-2024 23:52:24 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   I just made up the word "filionymikon", because someone said "Worf, father of Mogh". Not to be mixed up with his grandson, of course.

   It is extant in exactly one place on the Web, a Swedish genealogy wiki. I was almost first!

   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 12-Aug-2024 23:53:51 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     in reply to

     I historien är detta namnbruk känt från Mellanöstern och arabiskan, t.ex: Samira Om Ahmed "Ahmeds moder", Umm Kulthum (Zainab-e-Sughra) "Kulthums moder", Umm Salama (Hind bint Abi Umayya) "Salamas moder".

     wiki.rotter.se/index.php?title…

   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Aug-2024 00:01:28 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
     @Kermode I think HK is in more urgent need of added weirdness, so I'm doing my part. 😁
   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Aug-2024 00:05:57 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     @Kermode My long-term plan is to get more community-oriented rather than just being weird at home.

     Also, to be weirder.

4. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 12-Aug-2024 23:11:25 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   "Showing a low-resolution version of the map. Make sure your browser supports WebGL to see the full version."

   2D acceleration: Now in a random news article near you. At least they provided a pixel fallback.

   I'm surprised they'd go to the trouble. Is it less data for them than sending an SVG?
5. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 12-Aug-2024 17:41:46 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
   Itaniums could have an L4 cache? And an L3 or L4 as big as 32 MiB? Wow.
6. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 12-Aug-2024 17:20:34 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   LoongArch / LoongISA, looking up further details Re: social.treehouse.systems/@aria…

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson…

   The binary translation instructions have the specific benefit of speeding up Intel x86 CPU emulation at a cost of 5% of the total die area. The new instructions help a QEMU hypervisor translate instructions from x86 to MIPS with only a reported 30% performance penalty.

   
   That's very interesting in the context how our ISAs will look in 100 years, how we handle legacy, the thread about Itanium the other day, etc.

   The thing with "Programmer at Large" where our interstellar trade fleet 1000 years from now runs all these legacy systems in x86 emulators never fully leaves my mind.

   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 12-Aug-2024 17:37:42 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     in reply to

     "The thread about Itanium" is this one, lamenting the lack of exotic CPUs and how we're trapped in C-driven ISAs, which traps us in C, which traps us in C-driven ISAs:

     libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-8…

     If you support C in a performant way, you stay commercially viable. One way to still innovate is to glue two ISAs together, which I believe is what the #itanium did.

     LoongISA is showing another way; extending the ISA with some help instructions without fully emulating in hardware. I wonder if the C compiler for LoongISA benefits from these x86 help instructions even when compiling native C.

     It sounds like I'm equating x86 and C here, but I'm not really. I do assume though that MIPS is less C-driven than x86, which I assume is severely C-driven. Please jump in if that's all wrong.

7. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 12-Aug-2024 13:28:34 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
   Seen in the wild: "the amount of references to certain French EoL tooling"
8. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 12-Aug-2024 13:25:42 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   Postmodern Jukebox: "I Was Made For Lovin' You" (spaghetti western style)

   farside.link/invidious/watch?v…

   youtube.com/watch?v=TcArzldvoG…

   #Kiss #PostModernJukebox
9. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 12-Aug-2024 09:40:17 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   "Imagine a color that you can't even imagine. Now do that nine more times. That is how a mantis shrimp do."

   (actually eight more times)

   Ze Frank: "True Facts About The Mantis Shrimp"

   farside.link/invidious/watch?v…

   youtube.com/watch?v=F5FEj9U-CJ…

   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 12-Aug-2024 10:21:42 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     • ghostdancer
     @ghostdancer They were released within months from each other by sheer coincidence! (11 years ago)
10. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Sunday, 11-Aug-2024 10:17:13 EDT Michael Vogel
    Der beste Beweis für den Zufallscharakter der Evolution (und dessen Planlosigkeit) ist, dass das Loch zur Nahrungsaufnahme auch zum Atmen verwendet wird, so dass Nahrung in die Luftröhre gelangen kann.
    • Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Sunday, 11-Aug-2024 14:08:41 EDT Michael Vogel

      • VegOS
      Soweit ich in Erinnerung habe, gibt es auch ein Lebewesen, bei dem das der Fall ist.
11. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Sunday, 11-Aug-2024 09:33:38 EDT Michael Vogel
    Für jeden Topf gibt es einen passenden Deckel, für jeden Tisch gibt es ein passenden Stuhl - gibt es dann also zum Authentisch auch ein Authenstuhl?
12. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Sunday, 11-Aug-2024 05:09:54 EDT Michael Vogel
    Kleiner Tipp an alle, die mit "Noise Cancelling"-Kopfhörern im Zug telefonieren: Die andere Person wird euch bestimmt auch verstehen, wenn ihr leiser sprecht. Aber dafür weiß ich jetzt den neuesten Klatsch und Tratsch über ihn und seine Freunde ...
    • Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Sunday, 11-Aug-2024 05:35:25 EDT Michael Vogel
      @Mirco Wilhelm er ist übrigens so laut, dass ich ihn durch meine eigenen Noise Cancelling-Ohrstöpsel höre.
13. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 11-Aug-2024 03:08:14 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    "Mr. Walkin'?"

    That's new!
14. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 09-Aug-2024 23:36:01 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    People in Seoul and Incheon are really not into Pokemon Go the way HK people are. All the gym pokemon are beaten down, and you can easily win a gym in ten minutes.

    In HK you'll need an hour, if you can do it at all, because even if you go out at some ridiculous time like 2 AM, someone will still feed and replace gym pokemon as you beat them. If a gym your color is under attack, you'll have a hard time trying to sneak in a replacement pokemon before someone else does.

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2024 22:32:06 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      in reply to
      In this week I got enough poke coins to finally expand my pokemon storage!
15. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 11-Aug-2024 01:51:15 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
    Should I boycott this brand because it supports genocide or because it is anti-semitic? I forgot.
16. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2024 04:56:11 EDT Michael Vogel
    Gestatten, Chewbacca.
    pirati.ca/photo/119940099866b7…
    pirati.ca/photo/132292290566b7…
    • Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2024 17:08:07 EDT Michael Vogel
      Die Firma scheint ihren Geräten immer besondere Namen zu verpassen, finde ich gut.
17. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2024 14:24:44 EDT Michael Vogel
    Ein pragmatischer Straßenname.
    pirati.ca/photo/127632422766b7…
18. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2024 06:17:31 EDT Michael Vogel
    Tag 2 in Schneverdingen.
    pirati.ca/photo/517770478966b7…
19. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 09-Aug-2024 08:21:24 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
    Korea is doing some pretty interesting things with their alco beverages.
    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 09-Aug-2024 08:24:33 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      in reply to
      And the French toast in this restaurant is basically fried egg with a bit of bread in it.
    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2024 07:42:08 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      @Supermouse The Rodent Things they call "highball", which I thought was that you have a big floaty ball of ice in your whisky, but here it means cocktails with lots of crushed ice; could be whisky and beer, could be vodka and raspberry, or something else; and they sell it in cafes where you would have ice cream and coffee.

      Also, I've had Korean beer at home, but not the rice beer I've tried here.

      The soju here is mostly familiar from the Korean supermarket at home.

20. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2024 06:11:27 EDT Michael Vogel
    Wolle schaut sich das Spiel zusammen mit Petunia und Dropsi an.
    pirati.ca/photo/107886778866b7…