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Like if we can make a sport out of playing doom or madden fast why can we turn using firefox from boot into a sport.

Human tasks, TAS (how fast a program gets a job done), programming tasks, launch some application from boot. I think this could be just as interesting. Half of speed running is documenting glitches. It's not like tuning a boot process is more nerdy than what they are doing anyway.

Like if we can make a sport out of playing doom or madden fast why can we turn using firefox from boot into a sport. Human tasks, TAS (how fast a program gets a job done), programming tasks, launch some application from boot. I think this could be just as interesting. Half of speed running is documenting glitches. It's not like tuning a boot process is more nerdy than what they are doing anyway.

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I remember crApple used to do that with Mac OS X and design tools to compare G3 based PowerMacs vs. Pentium PC.

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Wouldn't different hardware make it hard to do? We could try something it could be fun.

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Yeah it could. Speed running often has different record listings based on different rules. Is tas allowed? Is ntsc and pal treated the same? Setting up the hardware could be part of the fun or establishing a standard could be useful for people who don't want to deal with that aspect. Maybe a VM with specific attributes would help. Or maybe submitting a record means giving an iso so that someone can compare their efforts to others by running other's setups on their machine.

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It sounds like you are challenging me using VMs with specific specs.

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So on something we could try I had an idea but the posts might be annoying to others. Maybe we do it 100% in a comment section.

First you make a comment or post on Poal. You kill your computer and boot up. The goal is to reply to yourself as quickly as possible.

It is possible to see the exact second that a comment is made but would require people to look at the html or a userscript that toggles to display mode on click.

I promise you if we competed you would win.

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I can install me some linux fast, as long as its not arch.

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That may not be a consumer level thing but considering the fact that ALL of the worlds fastest supercomputers run Linux, I would say that it is a thing at the industrial scale. Not racing to run Firefox obviously but racing to run multi-process optimized code.