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New comment by Zardoz84 in "Qwen3.7-Max Ran for 35 Hours on Unknown Hardware and Achieved a 10× Speedup"

Zardoz84 — Thu, 28 May 2026 06:00:24 +0000

So a LLM wrote 432 kernel variations and it found what was the faster...

New comment by Zardoz84 in "SimCity 3k in 4k (2025)"

Zardoz84 — Wed, 27 May 2026 22:23:40 +0000

Call to Vinnie and build the mythical SIM Castle...

New comment by Zardoz84 in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

Zardoz84 — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:44:58 +0000

I know very well before the movie. It's a classic folk tale.

New comment by Zardoz84 in "Fixing the Most Dangerous Dam in the World"

Zardoz84 — Wed, 20 May 2026 05:55:46 +0000

I just watched it yesterday, and discovered the channel a week ago. Great channel, and good stuff. I like how explains everything without assuming that the viewers aren't idiots. I put on my favourite channels with Technological Connections.

I hope that someday talks about the Asuan dam and the 3 gorges Dam.

New comment by Zardoz84 in "I Found Ultra-Pure Quantum Crystals in an Abandoned Mine in the Atacama Desert"

Zardoz84 — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:05:19 +0000

¿Para que inventar nosotros ? Que ellos ya lo inventan. - A Spanish politician in the first years of XX century to a Spanish inventor working with early radios.

New comment by Zardoz84 in "Starship V3"

Zardoz84 — Thu, 14 May 2026 13:32:51 +0000

Good luck with heat management.

New comment by Zardoz84 in "Starship V3"

Zardoz84 — Thu, 14 May 2026 13:27:44 +0000

> Losing a tile crippled the Space Shuttle

Losing a tile on the most damage sensible area of the shuttle.

New comment by Zardoz84 in "Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7"

Zardoz84 — Thu, 14 May 2026 09:29:49 +0000

There is a huge pletora of themes for KDE and Gnome to imitate OSX, Windows 95/98, XP, Vista/7, etc...

New comment by Zardoz84 in "Boriel BASIC"

Zardoz84 — Tue, 12 May 2026 06:23:32 +0000

Don't talk bad about ZX Basic. It had :

- IF THEN

- FOR

- GOSUB / RETURN

- DEFN

- GOTO

- READ / DATA

That was the same thing that any 8 bit BASIC of the era.

I have yet my books of learning BASIC (for kids), and there for ZX Spectrum, Commodore, Apple 2, etc... And only had that. The only thing that I remeber lacking compared againts other BASICs, was the ON GOTO, ON GOSUB and ELSE . On the control of flow in BASIC... That is all.

I will not see something more advanced (and without numbering the lines), like while and do loops, or select case, proper subrutines and functions, until I touch Turbo BASIC (and QBASIC)

New comment by Zardoz84 in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

Zardoz84 — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:11:47 +0000

"still" isn ghecorrect word. They always be having hallucinations

New comment by Zardoz84 in "Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard"

Zardoz84 — Fri, 08 May 2026 10:26:18 +0000

on Europe there is talks about using Spanish's Bizum as the oficial European replacement for Visa/MasterCard

New comment by Zardoz84 in "I completed 100 Days of Java over 5 years and mapped the journey as a graph"

Zardoz84 — Wed, 06 May 2026 07:07:10 +0000

> Day 1: Comparing/ checking equality against multiple Strings.

Just use Apache Commons Lang Strings.CS.equalsAny . If not, List.of or Set.of (if N could be big) should be the best options. Streams are better when you chain many operations.

New comment by Zardoz84 in "I completed 100 Days of Java over 5 years and mapped the journey as a graph"

Zardoz84 — Wed, 06 May 2026 07:03:17 +0000

for each is syntactic sugar for a while loop with an iterator. It will always be slower than the classic for index loop over the same collection/array.

New comment by Zardoz84 in "StarFighter 16-Inch"

Zardoz84 — Wed, 06 May 2026 06:54:51 +0000

doesn't charge by USB-C ?

New comment by Zardoz84 in "I built my own hair electrolysis machine"

Zardoz84 — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:34:59 +0000

Very fan for this girl.

New comment by Zardoz84 in "How to Disable Firefox's New Emoji Picker"

Zardoz84 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:01:30 +0000

On my case, It opnes the KDE emoji picker ... But this emoji picker walys show with that key combination in any program. I think that Firefoxs nevers gets the Ctrl+. key shortcut

New comment by Zardoz84 in "Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine"

Zardoz84 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 06:49:24 +0000

uBlock Origin was and is the BEST adblock. And it was one of the fist suggested add-ons when you get in the add-ons page. It should have been integrated.

New comment by Zardoz84 in "F-35 is built for the wrong war"

Zardoz84 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:03:50 +0000

Was. Having a remote "power off" button, have the effect of chaning the mind of many potential buyers. Specially with Trump.

New comment by Zardoz84 in "Mozilla Thunderbolt"

Zardoz84 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:14:34 +0000

The fact it's that for a normal usage, Firefox with uBlock Origin it's faster that Chrome without ad blocking. On Android this is especially noticeable.

New comment by Zardoz84 in "A communist Apple II and fourteen years of not knowing what you're testing"

Zardoz84 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:59:46 +0000

Well... The rusian Spectrum clones had some sucesfull career. And they did a lot of improvements over the original Sinclair and Amstrad designs. The Pentagon and the Scorpion with extra RAM, or the ATM come from pure rusian ingenuity .