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The article makes it seem a bit more mystical than it actually is. {酷暑|こくしょ} (kokusho) isn't a neologism or anything—it's a normal word for "severe heat", and you can find it in Japanese-English or Japanese-Japanese dictionaries. All they're doing is sticking the kanji for "day" on the end to make it "[brutally hot]-[day]". The runner-up simply adds the intensifier {超|ちょう} to the term for 35+ C° days ({猛暑|もうしょ}{日|び}).
Here are the full results^[Source is the PDF found at the bottom of this page on the JMA website] of the poll, all of which employ existing words for extreme heat, although some of the ones listed in the "others" section after the quantified results get a bit more creative (such as サウナ日 ("sauna day") and {自宅|じたく}{待機|たいき}{日|び} ("staying at home day")):
最高気温が 40℃以上の日の名称に関するアンケート結果
今般の名称検討にあたって行われたアンケート結果は以下のとおりです。
実施期間： 令和 8 年 2 月 27 日（金）～3 月 29 日（日）
総回答数： 478,296
| 候補名 | 得票数 |
|---|---|
| 酷暑日 | 202,954 |
| 超猛暑日 | 65,896 |
| 極暑日 | 25,638 |
| 炎暑日 | 22,292 |
| 烈暑日 | 21,930 |
| 激暑日 | 20,282 |
| 厳暑日 | 9,219 |
| 熱暑日 | 8,782 |
| 甚暑日 | 4,595 |
| 劇暑日 | 4,396 |
| 大暑日 | 3,341 |
| 盛暑日 | 1,478 |
| 繁暑日 | 865 |
また、「その他」のご意見として、以下のような名称案も寄せられました。 「汗日暑日暑」、「灼熱日」、「激アツ日」、「危険猛暑日」、「自宅待機日」 「極猛暑日」、「サウナ日」、「鬼暑日」、「沸騰日」、「熱盛日」など
なお、「酷暑日」は一般財団法人日本気象協会において日最高気温 40℃以上 の日を指す用語として 2022 年から独自に使用されています。
As funny as this would be, I don't think he actually pissed himself. Here's the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oDHyj7_QyA&t=14
You can see that it seems to suddenly appear when he sits down, but I think it's a reinforced crotch that's a darker shade than the rest of the pants—weird design choice, for sure, but I'm always blowing out the crotch of my pants so I can empathize. You can see that the edges are sharply defined, running down the inseam, and they don't change over the course of the video. When he stands up, you see that the front of his pants are still completely dry, and there's just no way that would be true if he pissed his pants.
Gonna be fleeing the country on a steamboat
That last clip is some demonic shit. Just looking around at the squalor and thinking, "Ooh yeah, I can really squeeze these suckers for all they're worth."
Neat little project! Was also nice to learn a bit about x86 opcode encoding along the way. Also an excellent illustration of how weird "homebrew" (if you can call it that) can be useful for exposing edge cases in hardware and hardware emulators.
Reported for wrong comm (this belongs in /c/theory)
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Chinese researchers have developed a surgical robot that can perform complex brain imaging nearly 30 per cent faster than traditional manual methods, according to a study published earlier this year.
The feat marks a milestone for the world’s first approved cerebrovascular intervention system.
In a head-to-head at the prestigious Peking Union Medical College Hospital (PUMCH), a young surgeon using the robotic system shaved nine minutes off the time required for a standard manual procedure.
“Preliminary clinical application shows that the YDHB-NS01 robot-assisted system is feasible for diagnostic cerebral angiography and shows early indications of safety and comparable procedural performance to conventional manual methods,” lead author Dr Zhao Yuanli wrote in the study published in the Chinese Neurosurgical Journal on January 30.
Cerebral vascular imaging is a must for the treatment of many brain diseases, but it is a difficult procedure for both patient and doctor. In conventional methods, the neurologist must manually thread a thin guide-wire from a patient’s thigh up to the brain’s blood vessels under X-ray fluoroscopy.
Manual surgery has inherent limitations: hands inevitably tremble, and the heavy lead gowns and collars worn by doctors for radiation protection increase physical strain. Long-term radiation exposure also poses health risks to doctors.
The robotic system avoids these issues. It operates stably with no mechanical or system failures. Operators have reported smooth catheter and guide-wire delivery, stable manipulator fixation, responsive control handles and good force feedback.
In their study, Zhao and his team found that with robotic help and just two training sessions, the same operator was able to improve safety and reliability of the procedure while reducing surgical time by 29 per cent – or from an average of 38 minutes to 27 minutes.
From May to August last year, 25 patients underwent robot-assisted cerebral angiography, while another 25 underwent manual angiography performed by the same operator during the same period at PUMCH.
The institution, long regarded as China’s premier hospital, attracts the country’s top medical students and clinicians. But in the comparison, the robotic arms assisted by intelligent machines outperformed human hands.
Both procedures were performed by the same young neurosurgeon, who had less than three years of independent experience in neurovascular angiography.
For the manual procedures, he wore a lead apron and worked directly in the radiation environment, while in the robot-assisted procedures he operated via a screen and remote manipulator from an adjacent room.
All 50 procedures were completed successfully, with a technical and clinical success rate of 100 per cent in both robotic and manual sets.
All target vessels were clearly visualised, meeting diagnostic requirements.
“No differences were observed between the two groups in fluoroscopy time, patient radiation dose, contrast agent dose or total angiography room time,” said Zhao, a leading cerebrovascular surgeon who has pioneered neuronavigation-guided minimally invasive surgery for brain tumours and complex vascular diseases in China.
The YDHB-NS01 system was developed domestically, and produced in the northern province of Hebei. It is China’s first approved vascular intervention robot and the world’s first approved cerebrovascular intervention robot.
The system previously performed 257 angiograms at three Chinese medical centres in 2020, achieving a 100 per cent success rate.
Companies evading U.S. sanctions in Hong Kong face little risk from local authorities. Like the rest of China, Hong Kong doesn’t recognize “unilateral” sanctions that are imposed by a single country such as the U.S.
Love the scare quotes that make it seem like "unilateral" is some dubious, subjective designation. That's literally the definition of unilateral!
Absurd that the studio making what is essentially an ad for a multi-billion dollar franchise isn't paid enough to break even...production committees are really gonna drive the Japanese animation industry into extinction. That deficit represents about 1% of the total revenue of the Uma Musume mobile game alone (to say nothing of merchandise and other revenue streams).
I think the more generous (and simpler) interpretation is that their maps suck and they never had detail there—we'd need a before and after to draw any conclusions.
Christmas has come early with a new Dolphin Progress Report! There's some juicy technical details, so I definitely recommend that folks read the full report if that sounds interesting, but here's the high-level summary of user-facing impacts (click the ¶ symbol to the right of each heading to jump to the relevant section in the progress report):
Broadband Adapter (IPC): HLE solution that allows Dolphin instances on the same machine to share memory and communicate directly without the need for a host network.
BBA-IPC allows for easy testing of BBA features on a single PC, and can also be used in conjunction with game streaming services like Parsec to play BBA titles over the internet without needing to meet the strict latency requirements of emulating the BBA over the internet.
I love to see in-depth interviews like this! Some of it is lost on me because I haven't played the original Paper Mario (I'll get around to it Someday™), but it's still interesting to learn about the long design process and the refining of the different mechanics. Also, I just learned about kamishibai a few weeks ago so I was like, "Ooh, I know what that is!!"
Shumplations is such a wonderful resource—I was just reading this great Iwata interview from 1999 the other day, which I was turned onto by Part 1 of They Create Worlds Nintendo Wii two-parter (fascinating look at the business and inner politics of Nintendo, by the way!). The whole interview is full of great information, from the early history of HAL to Iwata's personal philosophy, but this excerpt from his final remarks rings even truer today: