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Something came up at work today and this is an excellent place to learn something new.
How do you pronounce the word "buoy"?
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Something came up at work today and this is an excellent place to learn something new.
How do you pronounce the word "buoy"?
#Boost4Reach@miffyhelen buhOI sort of. Mostly sounding like boy but I can't ignore the u
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Something came up at work today and this is an excellent place to learn something new.
How do you pronounce the word "buoy"?
#Boost4ReachThis has been eye-opening. I might need to follow up with a second poll on how people pronounce "buoyant" and "buoyancy".
Who'd have thought that people on the internet could be so wrong? That's so unusual. (End of sarcasm.)
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This has been eye-opening. I might need to follow up with a second poll on how people pronounce "buoyant" and "buoyancy".
Who'd have thought that people on the internet could be so wrong? That's so unusual. (End of sarcasm.)
@miffyhelen bwahahaha I never thought about that! See also herbaceous, perhaps?
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@miffyhelen bwahahaha I never thought about that! See also herbaceous, perhaps?
@FourT4 and for my Italian friends, one of them had an almost religious experience to hear how English people pronounce "Tomb Raider".
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@FourT4 and for my Italian friends, one of them had an almost religious experience to hear how English people pronounce "Tomb Raider".
@miffyhelen I am super curious to hear how an Italian attempts to pronounce this.
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@miffyhelen I am super curious to hear how an Italian attempts to pronounce this.
@FourT4 if you say these in the traditional British English way, my friend said it like this:
Tom-bah
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Something came up at work today and this is an excellent place to learn something new.
How do you pronounce the word "buoy"?
#Boost4Reach@miffyhelen I'm not a native English speaker so I pronounce it boo-oh-ee, stress on the oh
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@FourT4 if you say these in the traditional British English way, my friend said it like this:
Tom-bah
R-eye-dareItalian here, can confirm although I wouldn't have put the ah at the end of the Tomb. And since the two words are basically pronounced like a single one, it sounds more like
Tom-bra-ee-dare
I *did* know that raider was pronounced more like ray-dah, so I used to say tom-bray-dah, and I was quite shocked to find out that Tomb is pronounced toom.
WTF English.
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Italian here, can confirm although I wouldn't have put the ah at the end of the Tomb. And since the two words are basically pronounced like a single one, it sounds more like
Tom-bra-ee-dare
I *did* know that raider was pronounced more like ray-dah, so I used to say tom-bray-dah, and I was quite shocked to find out that Tomb is pronounced toom.
WTF English.
@oblomov @miffyhelen @FourT4 "WTF English" should really be the go-to expression for anyone learning this language, either as a second language or as a native speaker
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@oblomov @miffyhelen @FourT4 "WTF English" should really be the go-to expression for anyone learning this language, either as a second language or as a native speaker
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@losttourist @oblomov @miffyhelen @FourT4 Relevant as ever:
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@losttourist @oblomov @miffyhelen @FourT4 Relevant as ever:
@GlasWolf @losttourist @oblomov @miffyhelen @FourT4 Here's one I love:
What If English Were Phonetically consistent
https://youtube.com/watch?v=A8zWWp0akUU
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Abusing x86 SIMD Instructions to Optimize PlayStation 3 Emulation
Key to efficient hardware emulation is an efficient mapping to the underlying CPU’s opcodes. Here one is free to target opcodes that may or may not have been imagined for that particular use. For emulators like the RPCS3 PlayStation 3 emulator this has led to some interesting mappings, as detailed in a video by [Whatcookie].
It’s important to remember here that the Cell processor in the PlayStation 3 is a bit of an odd duck, using a single regular PowerPC core (PPE) along with multiple much more simple co-processors called synergistic processing elements (SPEs) all connected with a high-speed bus. A lot of the focus with Cell was on floating point vector – i.e. SIMD – processing, which is part of why for a while the PlayStation 3 was not going to have a dedicated GPU.
As a result, it makes perfect sense to do creative mapping between the Cell’s SIMD instructions and those of e.g. SSE and AVX, even if Intel removing AVX-512 for a while caused major headaches. Fortunately some of those reappeared in AVX2.
The video goes through a whole range of Cell-specific instructions, how they work, and what x86 SIMD instructions they were mapped to and why. The SUBD instruction for example is mapped to VPDPBUSD as well as VDBPSADBW in AVX-512, the latter of which mostly targets things like video encoding. In the end it’s the result that matters, even if it also shows why the Cell processor was so interesting for high-performance compute clusters back in the day.
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@uep ha, ok, noted
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pun
"a form of word play that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect."
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La pace si fa con la Resistenza. Risposta dei Giovani Palestinesi e di UDAP alle minacce di Meloni
@anarchia
Riprendiamo da https://pungolorosso.com/2025/12/21/gpi-e-udap-rispondono-allattacco-della-meloni-ad-atreju/ queste parole fiere, puntuali e belle, diffuse dalle autentiche organizzazioni di lotta dei palestinesi in Italia contro le vili
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👑 To everyone grieving a partner or soulmate this holiday season: It’s okay if the holidays hurt. That feeling is heavy, and it is real.
Grief is love with nowhere to land. That big sadness gets trapped inside your body, making your chest feel tight.
Your best tool is your breath. You do not need hours to meditate. You just need to breathe slow.
Try this simple trick:
Stop. Sit down and feel your feet on the floor.
In: Breathe in slow for 4 counts.
Out: Breathe out slow for 6 counts.
Three slow breaths tell your body: "I am safe right now." This small release helps sadness flow out, bringing calm back. Give yourself permission to pause and breathe today.
Breathe slow. FLOW.
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I see a lot of complaints that our politicians are not on Mastodon.
Maybe we should look at this the other way round: Get everyone you know to join Mastodon — once we reach a high user count, the politicians will have to join to reach their constituents.
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https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/observe
"To take note of and celebrate (a holiday or similar occurrence), to keep; to follow (a type of time or calendar reckoning)."
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@sennoma so, you don't think of that as observing the holiday?
