@gemlog @Marc ODF support isn't great, but Office's own OOXML is also XML+zip.

It's easier feeding Excel and Word HTML files though, if you're producing it yourself from scratch. You just name them xls or doc and the Office apps silently accept and parse them. You can export documents and spreadsheets as (very messy) HTML to get an idea what kind of structures they will expect.

I seldom have the opportunity to mention people from our sibling city across the fence, but if I do, I'll try to remember this term. 😊

thebeijinger.com/blog/2019/02/…

@milesbelli Do the options mean:

- I say twenty oh nine, twenty twelve, twenty twenty four etc
- I say twenty twelve, but I say two thousand and nine, and two thousand and twenty-four
- I say twenty twenty-four, but I say two thousand and nine, and two thousand and twelve
- I say two thousand and nine, two thousand and twelve, and two thousand and twenty-four

386 students in New Orleans got $200 a month in basic income. As a result, they missed fewer days of school, their reading test scores grew by nearly double those of the control group, and they enjoyed more financial stability than the control group.

https://www.nola.com/news/education/guaranteed-income-study-expands-to-more-high-schoolers/article_b1636f56-5692-11ef-97bd-57631bf1517c.html

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. 🤣

"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.

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

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson…

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.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwanes…

@ariadne Isn't "mips-like" even an understatement of how mips loong is? IIRC it's mips minus two patent-encumbered instructions, or has it diverged further?

@raulinbonn

@Supermouse 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.

Excellent new report by the US Public Interest Research Group (PIRG): WasteX: Environmental harms of satellite internet mega-constellations https://pirg.org/edfund/resources/wastex-environmental-harms-of-satellite-internet-mega-constellations/

The report has great info on why 10s of thousands of throwaway satellites are terrible, and 2 powerful recommendations:

1. Pause launches until environmental reviews are done
2. Stop the categorical exclusion of satellites from environmental review

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 😁 )

TIL a "palimpsest" is an old manuscript that has evolved over time, as people have scratched things out or added new things.

EDIT: no, see correction: digipres.club/@petrichor/11290…