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New comment by speed_spread in "Some Unusual Trees"

speed_spread — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:31:00 +0000

That would make as much sense as trying to speak with Whales.

New comment by speed_spread in "Some Unusual Trees"

speed_spread — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:29:16 +0000

It's Red-Black Maple Syrup season!

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

speed_spread — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:03:02 +0000

If you run it on someone else's computer it becomes Lemon Stealing

New comment by speed_spread in "Drone attack on parked U.S. Army BlackHawk in Iraq"

speed_spread — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:18:02 +0000

How long till Canada wires up gooses brains and straps then with bombs for the ultimate biodrones? They already swarm naturally in attack formation!

New comment by speed_spread in "Drone attack on parked U.S. Army BlackHawk in Iraq"

speed_spread — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:10:10 +0000

We already have rocket powered autonomous drones capable of destroying fighter planes, they're called missiles.

New comment by speed_spread in "Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, git grep, ucg, pt, sift (2016)"

speed_spread — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:22:09 +0000

Ooh that's super interesting. I assume you shared the recipe with the irix community? I remember keeping Netscape up to date on my Indy was already a struggle in 2002.

New comment by speed_spread in "Java is fast, code might not be"

speed_spread — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 07:18:35 +0000

The biggest selling point of Java is that you can easily find programmers that know it. They will need some training to do HFT style code but you'll still pay them less than C++ prima donnas and they'll churn out reasonably robust code in good time.

New comment by speed_spread in "OpenAI is walking away from expanding its Stargate data center with Oracle"

speed_spread — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 02:07:27 +0000

In theory the water stays clean and can be reused. But I assume these cheapskates will go for evaporative cooling everytime? Then yeah, we need laws against that.

New comment by speed_spread in "OpenAI is walking away from expanding its Stargate data center with Oracle"

speed_spread — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 02:04:22 +0000

You left out overthrowing governments with customized targeted propaganda, jamming citizen discussion with noise, artificially creating and nourishing contrarian cells in democratic societies. The machines will now be programming people.

New comment by speed_spread in "Cloud VM benchmarks 2026"

speed_spread — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 12:58:20 +0000

But is a lawnmower a predator to the grass?

New comment by speed_spread in "The home computer war"

speed_spread — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 02:03:15 +0000

My worst hardware choice (later) was to save with a monochrome VGA screen to afford a 24pin Fujitsu dot matrix vs the 9pin Epson. It forged the person I am today.

New comment by speed_spread in "The home computer war"

speed_spread — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 10:40:22 +0000

A joke that got a lot of us high paying jobs later on.

New comment by speed_spread in "The home computer war"

speed_spread — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 10:06:40 +0000

Cool kids had C64s. I had every other boring, flawed model. Tandy MC-10. TI-99, ZX80 (not even 81!) and some other CoCo with chiclet keys. Now I know the 6809 is actually pretty interesting but back then without video or graphic chips there wasn't much you could do as a 12 year old.

Weirdly the most fun I had was with the BASIC programmable SHARP PC-xxxx line. I still have my PC-1350 somewhere.

New comment by speed_spread in "AMD will bring its “Ryzen AI” processors to standard desktop PCs for first time"

speed_spread — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 12:26:06 +0000

You need five network cards per node to make proper hypercube. Don't settle for less!

New comment by speed_spread in "Intel's make-or-break 18A process node debuts for data center with 288-core Xeon"

speed_spread — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 04:05:18 +0000

That's an "if you have to ask, it's not for you" question. Also, the noise these things make... You better have a separate garage. The constraints of a data center are really far from those of a homelab.

New comment by speed_spread in "Against Query Based Compilers"

speed_spread — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 13:45:23 +0000

Rust compilation is actually very fast if you keep things Java-esque : No macros, no monomorphization (every Trait dyn). Obviously most the ecosystem isn't built that way, leaning more on the metaprogramming style because the language makes it so convenient.

New comment by speed_spread in "Rust is just a tool"

speed_spread — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 09:58:29 +0000

Yeah but whatever the browser provides, the OS can also provide. You don't have to reinvent a browser when you code outside of it. Anyway, this conversation had slipped out of the window. Web app UI programming tools still suck compared to what we had 25 years ago and say what you will, there's NO good reason for that.

New comment by speed_spread in "Rust is just a tool"

speed_spread — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:15:00 +0000

None of the things you mention would have been impossible to integrate in native GUI. They're platform features.

New comment by speed_spread in "Rust is just a tool"

speed_spread — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 21:49:45 +0000

Frankly, I see _a lot_ more uninformed attacks on Rust than actual Rust evangelism / snobbery. And most of these anti-Rust comments reek of personal insecurities and low-effort trolling. Like saying that Java is slow. It's getting old real quick.

New comment by speed_spread in "Rust is just a tool"

speed_spread — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 12:55:43 +0000

Every community has these assholes. In my experience, the Rust user base is nothing but polite, understanding and pragmatic. There's no smugness, explicit or implied. The Rust lore is just a joke that's getting less funny every day someone takes it seriously.