Lightkey (u/Lightkey)

Lightkey commented on Japan to revise romanization rules for first time in 70 years japantimes.co.jp/news/202... · Posted by u/rgovostes

uasi · 8 days ago

塔 can be pronounced as tou, too, or somewhere between the two. It depends on the speaker, speaking style, and possibly dialect. Either way, Japanese speakers rely more on context and pitch accent than actual pronunciation, so it communicates fine.

Lightkey · 8 days ago

> as tou, too, or somewhere between the two.

I see what you did there.

Lightkey commented on FEX-emu – Run x86 applications on ARM64 Linux devices fex-emu.com/... · Posted by u/open-paren

cubefox · a month ago

I wouldn't call this random comment reliable testimony that they are sponsoring FEX.

Lightkey · 22 days ago

They took their sweet time but both the project lead Ryan Houdek as well as Valve developer Pierre-Loup Griffais (username Plagman here in the comments) have now come out saying that FEX-Emu was not just sponsored by Valve but is actually their project and that they approached suitable developers with the idea who they have been paying for the development: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/valve-have-been-fundin...

Lightkey commented on FEX-emu – Run x86 applications on ARM64 Linux devices fex-emu.com/... · Posted by u/open-paren

cubefox · a month ago

I wouldn't call this random comment reliable testimony that they are sponsoring FEX.

Lightkey · a month ago

https://gamersnexus.net/pc-builds-news/valve-steam-machine-d... "Valve has devoted significant resources to the development of FEX emulation."

Lightkey commented on FEX-emu – Run x86 applications on ARM64 Linux devices fex-emu.com/... · Posted by u/open-paren

Plagman · a month ago

I would keep in mind that the results reported there are likely quite a bit lower (in terms of CPU-side performance) than what you could achieve in practice, because it's running all of x86 Steam+Proton in the emulator. In a pre-configured environment (like SteamOS for ARM), the Steam client and Proton itself would be native ARM code, and emulation would stop at the win32 API boundary (or at certain critical libraries' APIs if you're using Linux apps).

Lightkey · a month ago

Fancy seeing the Plagman here. Last time I saw you was on Freenode (R.I.P.). So you are still working for Valve? ;-)

Lightkey commented on Nine things I learned in ninety years edwardpackard.com/wp-cont... · Posted by u/coderintherye

Lightkey · 3 months ago

Wear sunscreen?

Lightkey commented on Ants that seem to defy biology – They lay eggs that hatch into another species smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/sampo

Lightkey · 3 months ago

Those are chimera ants. Quick, someone call the Hunter Association before the king hatches!

Lightkey commented on Doom crash after 2.5 years of real-world runtime confirmed on real hardware lenowo.org/viewtopic.php?... · Posted by u/minki_the_avali

nurettin · 3 months ago

> Microsoft pretty much owns most of PC gaming.

So valve next?

Lightkey · 3 months ago

They missed that window when Sierra was still the publisher for Half-Life. Besides, Valve is not a publicly traded company and Gabe Newell as former manager at Microsoft has no interest in getting back together. Valve is betting everything on Linux right now to be more independent from Microsoft.

Lightkey commented on EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy weplanet.org/post/eu-cour... · Posted by u/mpweiher

peterfirefly · 3 months ago

We have plenty of uranium in Europe. Australia also has plenty. Lots of countries have plenty, both friendly and not so friendly (that we still buy lots of stuff from anyway). We absolutely don't need Russian uranium. Uranium is also easy to store long-term (years).

There is zero risk of a new stupid energy dependence on Russia.

Lightkey · 3 months ago

True, there is uranium everywhere. Yet Russia still has a 40% marketshare on enriched uranium because enrichment is the difficult part, just ask the Iranians.

Lightkey commented on EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy weplanet.org/post/eu-cour... · Posted by u/mpweiher

Lightkey · 3 months ago

Misleading title. The controversial part is that they ruled both nuclear energy AND natural gas plants as clean energy.

Lightkey commented on In a First, Solar Was Europe's Biggest Source of Power Last Month e360.yale.edu/digest/sola... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

adrianN · 5 months ago

Using it in aircraft cheaply is an unsolved problem. We know how to turn CO2 and water into jet fuel with enough energy input. It's just an order of magnitude more expensive than the fossil alternative.

Lightkey · 5 months ago

What a koinkidink, I just saw a news about a research platform for exactly that (okay, it's for ships but still) starting now, with the idea being to use surplus offshore wind electricity which otherwise would go unused: https://www.dlr.de/en/tt/latest/news/2025/synthetic-fuel-fro...

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