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New comment by UncleOxidant in "C++: Freestanding Standard Library"

UncleOxidant — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:41:07 +0000

Where does one get this Freestanding Standard Libarry? will it be included in C++ 26?

New comment by UncleOxidant in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

UncleOxidant — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 02:35:34 +0000

Trump will just spin it as a win by saying that ships are moving through the SoH again and not mentioning the Iran tollbooth. Most of his supporters won't question it.

New comment by UncleOxidant in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

UncleOxidant — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 02:33:53 +0000

> I wouldn’t worry about that lol. Gulf States themselves will go to war over it because they sure as hell aren’t paying Iran so that they can sell oil on the free market.

And yet they haven't gone to war (or joined in the war) to open up the SoH so far.

New comment by UncleOxidant in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

UncleOxidant — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 02:31:45 +0000

The differences in the various 10 point lists have been noticed. I wonder if different lists are being produced to make each side look better to their respective populace?

Still, either way lifting sanctions seems like a win for Iran. Also seems like Iran is going to be allowed to charge a transit fee through the SoH. Trump's going to spin this as a win, but it seems like a big loss. Maybe he's just desperate enough to get out of this that he's going to let it slide?

New comment by UncleOxidant in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

UncleOxidant — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:56:12 +0000

Sure, and how did they get the Shah, again? You're maybe starting to get closer to enlightenment.

New comment by UncleOxidant in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

UncleOxidant — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:41:20 +0000

Well, there certainly isn't any chance if you assume that everyone in Iran wants to kill you. But when you realize that it's only a small minority of people who were saying this then you start to ask: what about the majority of the people who were either sympathetic to the West or even just apathetic? Their government saying "Death to America" is like Trump saying "We're going to bomb them back to the stone age!" - most of us don't agree with Trump and we don't want any part of "bombing them back to the stone age". Same in Iran: most Iranians didn't agree with "death to America". But when you give them reason to agree with that sentiment it makes it harder for anything to actually change.

New comment by UncleOxidant in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

UncleOxidant — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:26:44 +0000

So you don't think 1953 had anything to do with 1979? It just kind of happened out of the blue?

New comment by UncleOxidant in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

UncleOxidant — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:12:44 +0000

Be afraid, be very afraid.

As an aside: Iran is one of the youngest nations on earth. The government threatening is one thing. Most of the younger Iranians were sympathetic to the West. It was only a matter of time before the regime would be gone or at least soften. But when you bomb a country that generally tends to cause a rally-round-the flag effect (see Britain in WWII, for example). So we've probably blown our chance at rapprochement for quite a while. The regime can tell it's citizens "see, we warned you about America, the Great Satan! "

New comment by UncleOxidant in "Iran strikes leave Amazon availability zones "hard down" in Bahrain and Dubai"

UncleOxidant — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:10:25 +0000

Both seem like easy targets. Hitting the datacenters themselves could results in more permanent damage.

New comment by UncleOxidant in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

UncleOxidant — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:05:25 +0000

Saying things and even spending to try to make it happen doesn't mean they were even close to being able to actually do it. Under Obama we had an agreement which had rigorous inspection details to prevent them developing nuclear weapons. Trump tore that all up in his first term.

New comment by UncleOxidant in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

UncleOxidant — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:59:17 +0000

Clueless? The US has been interfering in Iran (stuff like removing democratically elected prime minister) since 1953, at least.

New comment by UncleOxidant in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

UncleOxidant — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:54:02 +0000

Saying "Death to America" doesn't give us the right to bomb them. They've been saying that for a long time now and yet haven't posed serious threat to the US mainland. Trump says a lot of crazy shit as well, would that give other countries the right to bomb the US?

New comment by UncleOxidant in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

UncleOxidant — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:52:12 +0000

> gas rationing will begin happening within the next 9-15 months

It really depends where in the world you are. There are places that will begin rationing in the next few weeks if not sooner.

New comment by UncleOxidant in "Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why"

UncleOxidant — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 04:26:32 +0000

What are they emailing? I'd guess that all of the telemetry data, visual data,etc is getting sent to mission control via radio link. What's the outlook email even for?

New comment by UncleOxidant in "March heat in American west has left snowpack at record-low levels"

UncleOxidant — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:32:31 +0000

Where can I find similar data for the Columbia River basin? That's where we're going to see large impacts on hydropower production come mid-to-late summer, I suspect. Impacts for the PNW and CA.

New comment by UncleOxidant in "Lemonade by AMD: a fast and open source local LLM server using GPU and NPU"

UncleOxidant — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:20:37 +0000

Agreed. Qwen3-coder-next seems like the sweetspot model on my 128GB Framework Desktop. I seem to get better coding results from it vs 27b in addition to it running faster.

New comment by UncleOxidant in "Lemonade by AMD: a fast and open source local LLM server using GPU and NPU"

UncleOxidant — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:19:11 +0000

How much of a speedup might I get for, say, Qwen3.5-122B if I were to run with lemonade on my Strix Halo vs running it using vulkan with llama.cpp ?

New comment by UncleOxidant in "Show HN: 1-Bit Bonsai, the First Commercially Viable 1-Bit LLMs"

UncleOxidant — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:15:51 +0000

https://github.com/philtomson/llama.cpp

New comment by UncleOxidant in "Google releases Gemma 4 open models"

UncleOxidant — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:55:52 +0000

Something in the 60B to 80B range would still be approachable for most people running local models and also could give improved results over 31B.

Also, as I understand it the 26B is the MOE and the 31B is dense - why is the larger one dense and the smaller one MOE?

New comment by UncleOxidant in "Show HN: 1-Bit Bonsai, the First Commercially Viable 1-Bit LLMs"

UncleOxidant — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:06:03 +0000

UPDATE: I was using the llama.cpp CPU backend and was still getting gibberish. On Google colab they're running with CUDA. I turned Claude loose on the problem and it discovered a problem in the llama.cpp CPU backend code where a float was being converted to an int and basically going to 0. Now it runs fine locally with the CPU backend.