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

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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

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#Kiss #PostModernJukebox

"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"

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"Mr. Walkin'?"

That's new!

@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.

@André Jaenisch Web-Development & -Consulting Through hard work. 😃

I looked up the home page of every signatory and found the contact information, if no Fedi I checked if their Twitter referred to their Fedi, if not, then I searched for them on mastodon.social and confirmed if any official-looking account seemed actually official.

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.

@Kermode Swedish language lesson: Swedish has different forms for the infinitive and the imperative.

"sleep well" as in "[It is important to] sleep well" is "sova bra"

"sleep well" as in "[Hey, you there,] sleep well!" is "sov bra"

That's grammatically correct and understandable, but then of course there's an idiomatic expression that decides which synonym of "well" fits the best.

The native-sounding translation of "sleep well" is "sov gott".

South Korea uses euro plugs! Cool. It's like going to FOSDEM. 😃

(or, you know, to visit my parents, but I try to combine the two 😁 )

wtf still awake

goodnight friends

@Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: I don't know enough about them, but I guess GPUs and shaders are doing very non-PDP stuff, and what cryptography and machine learning people are doing with GPUs is something rather different from linear C code.

@Efraim Flashner @Angry Sun