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New comment by grconner in "Oldest boomerang doesn't come back"

grconner — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 20:18:27 +0000

Q: Then why not just call it a "throwing stick" and move on? A: Because throwing sticks that return are cooler than those that don't. Analysis: Click bait.

New comment by grconner in "Show HN: HipScript – Run CUDA in the browser with WebAssembly and WebGPU"

grconner — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 00:24:02 +0000

This is just amazing. So clean and straightforward. On a Mac just run it in Chrome see things work automagically. For real fun change the generations constant to 2000 and delete the usleep line to see this thing really cook.

New comment by grconner in "All my servers have an 8 GB empty file on disk"

grconner — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 00:38:40 +0000

Really good idea. After looking at the linked article about dd, I guess this wouldn't work as well if one was using a file system with compression. In that case maybe /dev/urandom would be better?