[10:19] <zxm-pi> allo allo
[13:30] <ball> Mornin'
[13:30] <jlj> o/
[13:48] <diddledan> I wonder how hard it would be to port an x86/64 JIT engine to ARM64
[13:55] <ball> diddledan: Is that what Apple did (with the sneaky advantage that they get to insert new instructions)?
[13:56] <diddledan> I don't think so
[13:56] <zxm-pi> if someone has made the computer from an apollo module mine bitcoins i suspect it's already been done :-P
[13:56] <diddledan> I think Apple have written an x86 interpreter - there are apparently some hidden opcodes in their CPU that reimplements some x86-specific functionality that wouldn't ordinarily be in an ARM CPU
[13:57] <diddledan> zxm-pi: omg, is that a thing?
[13:57] <zxm-pi> https://www.extremetech.com/computing/294784-apollo-guidance-computer-restored-used-to-mine-bitcoin
[13:58] <zxm-pi> ' At the AGC’s top speed, it could handle 1 hash every 10.3 seconds. This beats Shirriff’s pen-and-paper method (0.67 hashes per day) and an IBM punch-card computer (80 seconds per hash) but isn’t as fast as the Xerox Alto (1.5 hashes per second). At that rate, it would take longer than the lifetime of the universe to mine a single Bitcoin,'
[13:58] <diddledan> nice!
[14:00] <daftykins> :D
[14:01] <daftykins> happy Sunday
[14:01] <zxm-pi> followed by oh god, it's monday
[14:02] <diddledan> it's not so happy for me.. I've got a monster back pain - it's been building up over a few weeks
[14:02] <ball> Well that's no fun.
[14:02]  * diddledan been rubbing Deep Heat
[14:02] <daftykins> ooh dear, have you hired a hunter to slay it?
[14:02] <diddledan> I need Milla Jovovich
[14:05] <zxm-pi> no atavailable on nhs i don't think
[14:05] <daftykins> hehe
[14:05] <daftykins> "we've got a cosplayer of the lass from Hunger Games, will she do?"
[14:21] <ball> "Do you have any Nora Batties?"
[14:28] <daftykins> haha, special skill: nag you well again
[14:34] <ball> There you go, see!
[14:49] <diddledan> RUD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir6l8dgbF9E
[14:51]  * daftykins clicks