Notices by clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de), page 6

Listening to Nightwish, "Elvenpath"

US Americans have their right to bear arms, Finns have their "howling of a night wolf and the path under my bear feet".

(yes, it's "bare feet" in the official lyrics)

Kid holds an eloquent, well-argued and principled defense to his schoolmates explaining why he won't play the games on Roblox that incorporate "AI slop". They don't accept it and when the most annoyed and annoying guy runs out of half-baked and fallacious arguments he switches to insults.

Kid doesn't let it get to him. He logs off and goes to prepare for bed instead.

I taught him none of this. Not actively anyway.

Correction: Since Monday last week, as they had to get the candidate in before Ohio's deadline.

apnews.com/article/harris-demo…

/via en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Dem…

Ronnie Cheng three years ago: Vote for an Asian President!

farside.link/invidious/watch?v…

youtube.com/watch?v=5RCeS1SVFN…

After the DNC next week, the US voter will have that option.

The story that revealed this metastory is fascinating in itself:

Homo Erectus is observed to have disappeared from Africa around 500 ky ago, from China around 400 ky ago, but in Indonesia on Java, they seem to have been around until around 100 ky, perhaps even later. Sapiens didn't arrive on Java until around 50 ky ago, so there was nobody around to push them out.

Sommetimes, to do archaeology, you have to do archaeology on the archaeologists!

[ . . . ] Frank Huffman, from the University of Texas at Austin, had tracked down the descendants of the Dutch researchers who excavated the Homo erectus remains back in the 1930s.

[ . . . ]

"He was able to tell us exactly where to dig," [Prof Russell Ciochon of the University of Iowa] said of [Huffman].

bbc.com/news/science-environme…

If you're curious what the "correct" pronunciation is, say "Claws Valeen" with a Connecticut accent and you're pretty much there.

I don't mind at all, it's just hilarious to me how many different ways my name can confuse people. 😊

Just be kind and well-meaning and we'll get along just fine whatever you call me.

New name acquired!

I've been "Clays", "Clark", "Wailin", "Villain", last week in Korea I was "Walkin" at one point. I thought that would be the last one for some time and that I've collected all the variants, but then I have a meeting today and one of the department heads calls me "Clay", so it seems there is still more to be drawn from the well of names. 🤣

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…

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

Also, to be weirder.

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.

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…

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!

"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?

"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.