Notices by clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la), page 69
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clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 04-May-2018 07:20:01 EDT 
clacke
I'm a bit fuzzy on the details here, but I think it's roughly correct:
Back in the 50s, on the order of a million people escaped the PRC by taking their most precious possessions and swimming or taking boats from the mainland to Hong Kong (because the land border was thoroughly fenced and guarded). The policy was that anyone who reached Hong Kong land was given asylum.
In the 60s, work emigration from China was partially allowed, and another million came here for work. Since then, most of the growth of the population was organic growth.
After the Handover in 1997 and liberalized Chinese emigration rules and Hong Kong immigration rules, there is once again a noticeable stream of immigrants coming from the mainland, and organic growth has turned negative, as Hong Kong's prosperity and female employment, just like in Europe, has led to a birth rate below replacement. Still, local births are the main contributor to population gross growth. -
clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 04-May-2018 07:09:16 EDT
clacke
@skellat @sarcasmkid @ocean
I don't see any connection between Microsoft having made proprietary Unices before, and them making a Linux not being worrisome. -
clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 04-May-2018 07:07:04 EDT
clacke
@iona
In 1898, the British leased the rest of today's HK (minus Kowloon Walled City, look that one up for a piece of very interesting history in several aspects!), called the New Territories (and I believe the Outlying Islands are also part of the Lease). It's not as densely populated as Kowloon or the northern shore of HK Island, but it's much larger than the core districts of HK and it's where the other 4M people live (including our family!).
(I'm going by Wikipedia numbers here, I hear elsewhere that HK has about 9M people, but WP says 7.5M.)
The lease ran for 99 years, and as 1997 approached, negotiations started on what to do about it. NT, KN and HK were intrinsically integrated, and colonialism had become extremely unfashionable since the 60s, so the British agreed to hand the whole package over to China (against Singapore leadership's unofficial recommendations, and without consulting the millions of people affected by the transfer). -
clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 04-May-2018 07:06:26 EDT
clacke
@iona
The First Opium War ended in 1842 and resulted in the British conquering Hong Kong Island. Today 1.3M people live on the island, most of them on the northern shore or around the original Hong Kong fishing village, Aberdeen, from which the rest of the island is named (in Cantonese Aberdeen is Heung Gong Zai and the island was named Heung Gong after the British took it over).
The Second Opium War ended in 1860 and resulted in the British conquering Kowloon. 2M people live here, including not-actually-Kowloon New Kowloon, which was not yet part of HK. -
clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 04-May-2018 07:06:02 EDT
clacke
@iona Yep. You've been living in 1855 this whole time! INFO DUMP!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_islands_and_peninsulas_of_Hong_Kong
> Hong Kong comprises the Kowloon peninsula and 261 islands over 500 m2, the largest being Lantau Island and the second largest being Hong Kong Island. -
clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 04-May-2018 06:21:21 EDT
clacke
But I messed up my intended nihonsiki. Should have been potetotippusu.
/cc @shpuld -
clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 04-May-2018 06:18:23 EDT
clacke
@b Beer and potato chips. It says so pn the packaging if you can't read my romazi. :-)
Where did you get the idea there would be açai?
... Asahi? Japanese beer brand.
suupadorai = super dry (Asahi "super dry" beer)
potetochippusu = potato chips -
clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 04-May-2018 06:15:17 EDT
clacke
Lots of cool filmmaking tricks in this thread.
https://www.quora.com/Why-do-movie-sets-always-spray-water-on-the-ground-when-filming-outside-shots -
clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 04-May-2018 05:26:42 EDT
clacke
#huraidei
Time for some suupaadorai and potetochippusu! https://social.heldscal.la/attachment/1499062 -
clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 04-May-2018 04:47:12 EDT
clacke
Here's another nice rabbit hole, long discussion of the merits of RISC-V vs P2, and a link to a size-optimized RISC-V 32 implementation:
https://forums.parallax.com/discussion/166409/risc-v
https://github.com/cliffordwolf/picorv32 -
clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 04-May-2018 04:36:39 EDT
clacke
Also, P2 is not open hardware.
> I think we will open-source the design, but probably not for a few years.
https://forums.parallax.com/discussion/168368/is-p2-open-source-and-business-considerations -
clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 04-May-2018 04:34:33 EDT
clacke
Apparently the Propeller II, Propeller 2 or P2 is a thing, but not yet in ASIC form:
https://forums.parallax.com/categories/propeller-2-multicore-microcontroller
People are posting about things they are doing with FPGA implementations. -
clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 04-May-2018 04:30:25 EDT
clacke
> Parallax endeavors to supply Propellers as long as we have demand (i.e., foreseeable future, a minimum 20 to 25 years). As an example of our commitment, Parallax still manufactures the BASIC Stamp I and it was designed over 20 years ago.
Nice.
https://www.parallax.com/product/p8x32a-d40 -
clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 04-May-2018 04:26:14 EDT
clacke
Never heard of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax_Propeller before.
> multi-core processor parallel computer architecture microcontroller chip with eight 32-bit reduced instruction set computer (RISC) central processing unit (CPU) cores
> Parallax Inc., released all of the Propeller 1 P8X32A hardware and tools as open-source hardware and software under the GNU General Public License (GPL) 3.0. This included the Verilog code, top-level hardware description language (HDL) files, Spin interpreter, PropellerIDE and SimpleIDE programming tools, and compilers.
> There are at least six different versions of Forth, both commercial and open-source software, available for the Propeller.
> As of 2014, Parallax is building a new Propeller with cogs that each will run at about 200 MIPS, whereas the current Propeller's cogs each run at around 20 MIPS. The improved performance would result from a maximum clock speed increase to 200 MHz (from 80 MHz) and an architecture that pipelines instructions, executing an average of nearly one instruction per clock cycle (approximately a ten-fold increase).
Anyone play with this thing? Anyone know what the current status is on the upgrade? -
clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 04-May-2018 04:23:05 EDT
clacke
@arwalk @rice @abs I've seen more people hanging on than I've seen get fired. -
clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 04-May-2018 04:12:45 EDT
clacke
@arwalk @rice @abs
> interviewers know how to spot this.
No.
> And if it goes past the interviewer, your coworkers WILL notice.
By then it's too late.
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/anything -
clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 04-May-2018 04:09:22 EDT
clacke
@rysiek @cypnk
> the [continually shrinking] heart -
clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 04-May-2018 04:08:01 EDT
clacke
*Ostriches with pseudopod manipulators coming out of their ass land and ask for directions.*
@sireebob: "Soooo hot."
@hthr -
NFG (nfg@nfg.zone)'s status on Thursday, 03-May-2018 17:31:48 EDT 
NFG
It's not yet time to panic, but I'm considering shuttering this instance. The Mastodon experience is no longer filling me with joy.
To my users: there's no rush, but you may want to start looking for other instances. If the decision is made, and every day I suspect it's more likely, I'll give you time to download your content and migrate. (A month, say?)
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