but when you cheat once then all your scores have to go.
How about.... "Show me video and live proof for all your other scores by playing on a copy of the game and system provided and supervised by an independent 3rd party (to ensure no tampering), And it's gone, until after you achieve a score that shows what you claimed is possible ?"
The game only tracks time according to how many video frames were generated.
Is it possible that some frames were lost, or failed to be generated?
0.06 seconds is a pretty tight margin.... it's not like the fastest possible was 5 seconds, and he was claiming 1 second with no explanation.
Do the rules preclude using an external timer? Could also be a transcription error or other honest mistake. Was there no proof of the score included with the submission?
Then your bare-bones RTOS isn't looking so hot. Who knows what shit-tastic GUI library or HID parsing they wrote for it. Meanwhile your boss's boss's boss is wondering why the hell we can't update these things
These are not OS issues. If the company building the ATM can't afford to pay for decent SDK libraries for their chosen OS, then you have to write them from scratch, but don't blame the RTOS for that.
This just comes to show.... the FCC is in the Pockets of the corporate monopolies who are scared of potential competition.
The FCC's job is to be a neutral technical regulator for spectrum and consumer protection --- having a national 5G network would not adversly affect the FCC's ability to do their job, so why are they even commenting?
I can think of only one reason.... the commission is attempting to leverage the fallacy that they are experts in matters of commerce and infrastructure investment to push the administration in the direction of the political goals of their past and future employers: The largest cable companies and Telcos.
Placing government in control of a 5G network everyone uses grants government means of directly tracking high resolution movements of everyone everywhere in real time.
They already have it..... the only question is: What kind of monopoly do you like better... A corporate one, or a government one?
Both types have their merits and drawbacks.
In theory a government monopoly SHOULD represent the people. I don't know that I trust government that much. I would RATHER private ownership with regulation, but I sure as heck don't trust the existing telecom monopolies not to gouge consumers, and they've already captured the regulation process.
I guess i'd like to see an effective government-run broadband network that doesn't gouge on bandwidth pricing as an OPTION in everyplace, and let the telecoms compete against that ---- if they want to keep their monopolies justify it, by building wired/fiber networking infrastructure.
I think investing in the currency of extortionists and criminals is a prudent move.
You mean US Dollars, right? I'm afraid there aren't many alternatives, because extortionists and criminals have been known to use ALL currencies, although using one with inherently traceable transactions like Bitcoin would be most unwise -- that's why most criminals stick with USD or switched to Monero....
I don't care if a robot takes my job, but I *do* care if a robot takes my salary. I would imagine most folks feel similarly.
It is not like you have a choice in the matter. You can try and switch jobs to one the robots cannot do, OR start your own business, and be an inefficient competitor.
I think most people will find a way and do the former. So the robots might cause salaries of working jobs to be lower, BUT they should also cause the price of goods and services people can buy to go down, especially since there will be more goods that are less expensive to create being chased by fewer dollars (because of buyers having less $$$ to spend).
Many goods could approach $0 in price.... heck, there's a possibility that the government will subsidize a certain volume of low-income buyers' purchases, so the price is basically equal to $0 for all the bare essentials of life, and you only get a salary to obtain something considered a luxury like entertainment, or access to Cable TV or internet, or other discretionary spending dollars.
Poker is a game of chance in which skill in your betting strategy can affect the outcome, BUT the cards you got are still random, so it's not a game of pure skill.
Using Public-Key Cryptography. The same crypto generally used to secure the user's keys. Generate hierarchical public-secret keys from a shared seed similar to Bitcoin wallets that use Hierarchical-Deterministic Wallet addresses, so there can be a large number if separate Public-Secret Keypairs XOR the per-key seed by a "partitioning key".
Assume the company goes through a process where they generate 500,000 "Backdoor keypairs" using HSMs --- each "user" of the service will be assigned to a randomly chosen unique backdoor public key, in the process of generation, a copy of every decryption key the user has access to during key generation will be encrypted using EC public key crypto with the selected backdoor key, then during the one-time process when the original backdoor keys are being created: divide each key into something like 20 Shares requiring 15 of 20 crypto officers gather to assemble and authorize 1 usage of that particular backdoor key ---- make the selection of key unitholders so that no more than 5 reside on the same continent, no more than 3 reside in the same nation, no more than 2 reside in the same province/local part of a nation or work for the same agency, Then require another 15 of 20 people be present to yield the Partitioning seed of the particular Backdoor key to be utilized, thus eliminating the possibility of "Convenient, surreptitious" access ----- ordering each implementation of a specified user's backdoor key will require assembling a group of people coming from at least 5 nations.
Bumper covers have been about half (in terms of $) of all bodywork in America for decades.
Yeah... it's kind of ridiculous. What we should have is a few laws to encourage vehicles be designed with inexpensive bumpers, E.G.: (1) Every car shall provide a highly-visible exposed bumpers in good condition covering the front and rear of the vehicle for the purpose of absorbing the shock of a low-speed collision, damage caused to a vehicle with missing or faulty bumpers shall be the responsibility of the owner, And,
(2) Any accidental damage caused to the surface or structure of either bumper or its attachments during a collision shall be the sole liability of the vehicle's registered owner, and cannot be covered by any insurance policy, unless the bumpers were effective in good condition, and damage to other parts of the vehicle still resulted.
(3) If a vehicle maker has not made arrangements to ensure the specifications or generic pieces for any replacement parts or bumpers, coatings, treatments, or paints, are available and can be reproduced free of royalties or licensing charges to restore a vehicle to like-new condition, then the manufacturer of the vehicle shall be liable for the cost of any unique replacement materials necessary in order to effect repair of a bumper on a vehicle they made.
Continents fit together. "Nuna" had continental plates that do not look like what we know of, hence hard to teach to kids
Considering the long age of the earth; it's ridiculous for almost anyone to think they have information on a significant fraction of the geologic history, but just because someone heard of Pangea or Nuna or whatever doesn't mean there weren't other supercontinents at different times.
This brings up the disturbing trends of people not believing the experts in fields, and some of them are in leadership positions who's actions causes change.
In reality all the extra education in specializations is for added skill and efficiency --- that doesn't mean what experts say should be yielded as dogma or instantly accepted.
On trivial matters where stakes are low - the expert in the field might deserve a benefit of the doubt, BUT there are plenty of times people should not believe experts in the fields ---- before they are to be believed, they have a burden of explanation and proof that they should be equipped to handle as an expert.... even the best experts make mistakes often, and you should ALWAYS question and confirm information before you spread it or make an important decision off of it --- for example: The Geoligical history person would not be an expert in leadership or decisionmaking or publication or education, and not necessarily the true impact of what they found (Their story or views may simply be wrong), and if you fail to find overwhelming confirming support or you find contrary information an expert wasn't able to explain, then, well, that could be a legit reason not to believe said expert.
So, now their mission as a surreptitious spy agency dealing with lots of information they can't talk about is no longer being lied about on a PR page. Good.
Indubitably.... the mission statement is something management hammers into all the employees as values at all levels they EXPECT the members of their organization to express, that affects things like evaluations of their staffs' performance AND the culture of their entity and whistleblowers, etc.
Thus it's still a very bad thing for them to be subtracting "honor" and "respect for the law" from the formal core values for their organization.
Now the idiot driver wrecked their Tesla and they have to pay for damages to the fire truck
If autopilot turns out to have been on; then probably Tesla will wind up having to pay for damages to a fire truck.... AND replacing that poor idiot driver's car./P
But in this case it just plowed into a firetruck for no apparent reason.
It seems like there's a bug, either way.... the Tesla is buggy.... these cars are supposed to have automatic emergency breaking, aren't they? Explain how crashing into a firetruck at 65 MPH happens without automatic emergency breaking having also failed......
For a car analogy, how about if a car that would let you drive through McDonalds but not Burger King. Other manufacturers would be BK only
How about.... McDonalds(Google)' will refuse to serve you unless you drive in with a McDonalds car.
Meanwhile.... this is in retaliation to Burger King(Amazon) being the major brand of gas stations that handles 60% of highway traffic and adopting a new policy where their gas stations will only sell to you fuel for your BK brand car, and people who drive in looking for non-BK-brand-car-compatible-fuel are out of luck.
Amazon is NOT like those other retailers, because Amazon is a "big box" retailer that carries products of all kinds: not products of a specific kind. Those other retailers are also small retailers and not subject to the possibility of anti-competitive behavior within their retail segment. Amazon, on the other hand.... is a budding monopoly --- HUGE percentage of the eCommerce market, almost all the retail growth, and there are more Amazon Prime subscribers than subscribers to any cable company; Abusing their eCommerce monopoly to expand their Prime
/ Streaming devices monopoly and suppress a meaningful competitor (Google) could very well be the affect of Amazon's pulling the Chromecasts off their virtual shelves ------ Amazon normally carries almost everything that can be sold on their website; if not directly, then through 3rd party sellers. There's no explanation for Chromecast not being available on Amazon other than Amazon has banned the item as an anti-competitive practice within their burgeoning retail monopoly.
Funny, I can't buy an Android tablet at the Apple Store.
Apple stores are not general retailers -- they only sell Apple products and accessories for Apple products.
Sprint won't sell me a Verizon phone.
Sprint is not a general retailer --- Sprint only sells phones for the convenience of their customers.
Safeway wouldn't sell me a DJI drone. Target doesn't sell industrial arc welders.
When it comes for renewals, the clauses will be part of it, resulting in the state losing it's current connections too.
No..... that would be easy money for whoever is bidding against them. That could even make it worthwhile to start a brand new ISP; just to be the ONLY ISP that can service the state government.
Basic human freedoms, such as freedom of expression, are expendable if they don't help to....
The democracy is truly an illusion --- we're an oligarchical society, where the people are made more productive by allowing them to choose their occupation, and ultimately most of the productivity goes to enrich the oligarchy and keep those in power in power.
We have only been allowed "basic human freedoms", because humans that feel they have liberty have higher productivity than those who realize that they're slaves, therefore, this situation is seen as more beneficial to our masters.
When the freedoms don't suit those in power, they'll find ways to circumvent or eliminate them.
In the case of Facebook.... censorship by fiat or emergency order is forseeable. Speech from those who happen to be Russian in origin can be suppressed under the claims that it is "subversive" or an attempt to undermine and destroy the US, rather than to legitimately persuade the voters to do something different.
The problem isn't social media. Or even most of the people.
The real problem are people like you who don't know how elitist you sound, or worse, don't really care.
The problem isn't fake news; the problem is people who are fooled by fake news.
I don't want to see an "intelligence to test"; as that is way too vague.
I want to see a simple test where each voter shows that they are an adult and understand our culture of freedom, the constitution, and their fundamental responsibility as a citizen.
It's understandable if voters are mislead by fake news, but they should at least understand that lies and fake news, and propaganda exist; and show they know their job as a voter is to educate themselves diversly on the people and issues and at the polls to select whatever choice the voter decides will be best for the country.
The innovative bounded floating point system computes two limits (or bounds) that contain the represented real number. These bounds are carried through successive calculations. When the calculated result is no longer sufficiently accurate the result is so marked, as are all further calculations made using that value.
This sounds like interval arithmetic.. A.K.A. using a vectorized format for numbers that carries forward an upper and lower bound through each operation, and I wrote a Matlab datatype for that in college, but others are published in the subject already, so this is not an innovation.
I would also point out that including two limit bounds increases the size storage costs, and the complexity/number of basic elements that will be required for computation.
Breaking the door down is, counter-intuitively, a safety measure.
That's not a very good "safety measure"; innocent people have a right to be secure in their property, and seeing their door being bashed in without warning, basically gives the inhabitants carte blanche to pull out any guns they can find and open fire in the direction of intruders; the result could be fatalities of members of their "surprise raid team", and it will all be legally protected self-defense.
You have a dual-core 64-bit processor there, I believe. I would try ElementaryOS or Linux Mint KDE first.
Of course if you REALLY want fastest, then you will need a distribution that has no desktop environment and simply drops you to a command prompt after installation --- that would be something like Ubuntu server, CentOS 7, or a minimal install of SuSE or Debian.
The biggest worry (IMO) with the old hardware is Spectre/Meltdown;l security risks which will likely never have a hardware/firmware-level mitigation released for such an old platform, as warranty expired; only the partial/temporary performance-killing workarounds that can be done by patching the kernel, thus the "fastest" choice of distro could be very well be to run a vulnerable/unpatched one.
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but when you cheat once then all your scores have to go.
How about.... "Show me video and live proof for all your other scores by playing on a copy of the game and system provided and supervised by an independent 3rd party (to ensure no tampering), And it's gone, until after you achieve a score that shows what you claimed is possible ?"
The game only tracks time according to how many video frames were generated.
Is it possible that some frames were lost, or failed to be generated?
0.06 seconds is a pretty tight margin.... it's not like the fastest possible was 5 seconds, and he was claiming 1 second with no explanation.
Do the rules preclude using an external timer? Could also be a transcription error or other honest mistake. Was there no proof of the score included with the submission?
Then your bare-bones RTOS isn't looking so hot. Who knows what shit-tastic GUI library or HID parsing they wrote for it. Meanwhile your boss's boss's boss is wondering why the hell we can't update these things
These are not OS issues. If the company building the ATM can't afford to pay for decent SDK libraries for their chosen OS, then you have to write them from scratch, but don't blame the RTOS for that.
This just comes to show.... the FCC is in the Pockets of the corporate monopolies who are scared of potential competition.
The FCC's job is to be a neutral technical regulator for spectrum and consumer protection --- having a national 5G network would not adversly affect the FCC's ability to do their job, so why are they even commenting?
I can think of only one reason.... the commission is attempting to leverage the fallacy that they are experts in matters of commerce and infrastructure investment to push the administration in the direction of the political goals of their past and future employers: The largest cable companies and Telcos.
Placing government in control of a 5G network everyone uses grants government means of directly tracking high resolution movements of everyone everywhere in real time.
They already have it..... the only question is: What kind of monopoly do you like better... A corporate one, or a government one?
Both types have their merits and drawbacks.
In theory a government monopoly SHOULD represent the people. I don't know that I trust government that much. I would RATHER private ownership with regulation, but I sure as heck don't trust the existing telecom monopolies not to gouge consumers, and they've already captured the regulation process.
I guess i'd like to see an effective government-run broadband network that doesn't gouge on bandwidth pricing as an OPTION in everyplace, and let the telecoms compete against that ---- if they want to keep their monopolies justify it, by building wired/fiber networking infrastructure.
I think investing in the currency of extortionists and criminals is a prudent move.
You mean US Dollars, right? I'm afraid there aren't many alternatives, because extortionists and criminals have been known to use ALL currencies, although using one with inherently traceable transactions like Bitcoin would be most unwise -- that's why most criminals stick with USD or switched to Monero....
I don't care if a robot takes my job, but I *do* care if a robot takes my salary. I would imagine most folks feel similarly.
It is not like you have a choice in the matter. You can try and switch jobs to one the robots cannot do, OR start your own business, and be an inefficient competitor.
I think most people will find a way and do the former. So the robots might cause salaries of working jobs to be lower, BUT they should also cause the price of goods and services people can buy to go down, especially since there will be more goods that are less expensive to create being chased by fewer dollars (because of buyers having less $$$ to spend).
Many goods could approach $0 in price.... heck, there's a possibility that the government will subsidize a certain volume of low-income buyers' purchases, so the price is basically equal to $0 for all the bare essentials of life, and you only get a salary to obtain something considered a luxury like entertainment, or access to Cable TV or internet, or other discretionary spending dollars.
The same could be said of poker.
Poker is a game of chance in which skill in your betting strategy can affect the outcome,
BUT the cards you got are still random, so it's not a game of pure skill.
Using Public-Key Cryptography. The same crypto generally used to secure the user's keys. Generate hierarchical public-secret keys from a shared seed similar to Bitcoin wallets that use Hierarchical-Deterministic Wallet addresses, so there can be a large number if separate Public-Secret Keypairs XOR the per-key seed by a "partitioning key".
Assume the company goes through a process where they generate 500,000 "Backdoor keypairs" using HSMs --- each "user" of the service will be assigned to a randomly chosen unique backdoor public key, in the process of generation, a copy of every decryption key the user has access to during key generation will be encrypted using EC public key crypto with the selected backdoor key, then during the one-time process when the original backdoor keys are being created: divide each key into something like 20 Shares requiring 15 of 20 crypto officers gather to assemble and authorize
1 usage of that particular backdoor key ---- make the selection of key unitholders so that no more than 5 reside on the same continent, no more than 3 reside in the same nation, no more than 2 reside in the same province/local part of a nation or work for the same agency, Then require another 15 of 20 people be present to yield the Partitioning seed of the particular Backdoor key to be utilized, thus eliminating the possibility of "Convenient, surreptitious" access ----- ordering each implementation of a specified user's backdoor key will require assembling a group of people coming from at least 5 nations.
Bumper covers have been about half (in terms of $) of all bodywork in America for decades.
Yeah... it's kind of ridiculous. What we should have is a few laws to encourage vehicles be designed with inexpensive bumpers, E.G.:
(1) Every car shall provide a highly-visible exposed bumpers in good condition covering the front and rear of the vehicle for the purpose of absorbing the shock of a low-speed collision, damage caused to a vehicle with missing or faulty bumpers shall be the responsibility of the owner, And,
(2) Any accidental damage caused to the surface or structure of either bumper or its attachments during a collision shall be the sole liability of the vehicle's registered owner, and cannot be covered by any insurance policy, unless the bumpers were effective in good condition, and damage to other parts of the vehicle still resulted.
(3) If a vehicle maker has not made arrangements to ensure the specifications or generic pieces for any replacement parts or bumpers, coatings, treatments, or paints, are available and can be reproduced free of royalties or licensing charges to restore a vehicle to like-new condition, then the manufacturer of the vehicle shall be liable for the cost of any unique replacement materials necessary in order to effect repair of a bumper on a vehicle they made.
A bumper that includes a bunch of camera equipment, and range sensors, and all kinds of other fancy gadgetry costs a lot.
Last time I ever had a bumper fixed at the body shop it was $1000, with no equipment in it.
A replacement camera piece of the approximate resolution used for backup cameras is about $50, and range sensors are even less expensive.
I gotta call BS on this. If there are added significant costs, then it's something else other than the relatively inexpensive electronic parts.
I see by your grasp of geography that you hail from the land of Canada's southern neighbors.
Nooooo.... How dare you imply I have something to do with those filthy renegade colonists.
Continents fit together. "Nuna" had continental plates that do not look like what we know of, hence hard to teach to kids
Considering the long age of the earth; it's ridiculous for almost anyone to think they have information on a significant fraction of the geologic history,
but just because someone heard of Pangea or Nuna or whatever doesn't mean there weren't other supercontinents at different times.
This brings up the disturbing trends of people not believing the experts in fields, and some of them are in leadership positions who's actions causes change.
In reality all the extra education in specializations is for added skill and efficiency --- that doesn't mean what experts say should be yielded as dogma or instantly accepted.
On trivial matters where stakes are low - the expert in the field might deserve a benefit of the doubt, BUT there are plenty of times people should not believe experts in the fields ---- before they are to be believed, they have a burden of explanation and proof that they should be equipped to handle as an expert.... even the best experts make mistakes often, and you should ALWAYS question and confirm information before you spread it or make an important decision off of it --- for example: The Geoligical history person would not be an expert in leadership or decisionmaking or publication or education, and not necessarily the true impact of what they found (Their story or views may simply be wrong), and if you fail to find overwhelming confirming support or you find contrary information an expert wasn't able to explain, then, well, that could be a legit reason not to believe said expert.
You cant "steal" land by moving it. he property just moves with you.
Now we have learned something new.... a portion of southern Australia is actually part of Canada.
Better get ready to start paying your backtaxes, folks.
So, now their mission as a surreptitious spy agency dealing with lots of information they can't talk about is no longer being lied about on a PR page. Good.
Indubitably.... the mission statement is something management hammers into all the employees as values at all levels they EXPECT the members of their organization to express, that affects things like evaluations of their staffs' performance AND the culture of their entity and whistleblowers, etc.
Thus it's still a very bad thing for them to be subtracting "honor" and "respect for the law" from the formal core values for their organization.
Now the idiot driver wrecked their Tesla and they have to pay for damages to the fire truck
If autopilot turns out to have been on; then probably Tesla will wind up having to pay for damages to a fire truck.... AND replacing that poor idiot driver's car. /P
But in this case it just plowed into a firetruck for no apparent reason.
It seems like there's a bug, either way.... the Tesla is buggy.... these cars are supposed to have automatic emergency breaking, aren't they?
Explain how crashing into a firetruck at 65 MPH happens without automatic emergency breaking having also failed......
For a car analogy, how about if a car that would let you drive through McDonalds but not Burger King. Other manufacturers would be BK only
How about.... McDonalds(Google)' will refuse to serve you unless you drive in with a McDonalds car.
Meanwhile.... this is in retaliation to Burger King(Amazon) being the major brand of gas stations that handles 60% of highway traffic and adopting a new policy where their gas stations will only sell to you fuel for your BK brand car, and people who drive in looking for non-BK-brand-car-compatible-fuel are out of luck.
Amazon is NOT like those other retailers, because Amazon is a "big box" retailer that carries products of all kinds:
not products of a specific kind. Those other retailers are also small retailers and not subject to the possibility of anti-competitive behavior
within their retail segment. Amazon, on the other hand.... is a budding monopoly --- HUGE percentage of the eCommerce market, almost all the retail growth, and there are more Amazon Prime subscribers than subscribers to any cable company; Abusing their eCommerce monopoly to expand their Prime
/ Streaming devices monopoly and suppress a meaningful competitor (Google) could very well be the affect of Amazon's pulling the Chromecasts off their virtual shelves ------ Amazon normally carries almost everything that can be sold on their website; if not directly, then through 3rd party sellers. There's no explanation for Chromecast not being available on Amazon other than Amazon has banned the item as an anti-competitive practice within their burgeoning retail monopoly.
Funny, I can't buy an Android tablet at the Apple Store.
Apple stores are not general retailers -- they only sell Apple products and accessories for Apple products.
Sprint won't sell me a Verizon phone.
Sprint is not a general retailer --- Sprint only sells phones for the convenience of their customers.
Safeway wouldn't sell me a DJI drone. Target doesn't sell industrial arc welders.
Not all retailers carry ALL types of products.
When it comes for renewals, the clauses will be part of it, resulting in the state losing it's current connections too.
No..... that would be easy money for whoever is bidding against them. That could even make it worthwhile to start a brand new ISP; just to be the ONLY ISP that can service the state government.
Basic human freedoms, such as freedom of expression, are expendable if they don't help to....
The democracy is truly an illusion --- we're an oligarchical society, where the people are
made more productive by allowing them to choose their occupation, and ultimately most of the productivity goes to enrich the oligarchy and keep those in power in power.
We have only been allowed "basic human freedoms", because humans that feel they have liberty have higher productivity than those who realize that they're slaves, therefore, this situation is seen as more beneficial to our masters.
When the freedoms don't suit those in power, they'll find ways to circumvent or eliminate them.
In the case of Facebook.... censorship by fiat or emergency order is forseeable.
Speech from those who happen to be Russian in origin can be suppressed under the claims that it is "subversive" or an attempt to undermine and destroy the US, rather than to legitimately persuade the voters to do something different.
The problem isn't social media. Or even most of the people.
The real problem are people like you who don't know how elitist you sound, or worse, don't really care.
The problem isn't fake news; the problem is people who are fooled by fake news.
I don't want to see an "intelligence to test"; as that is way too vague.
I want to see a simple test where each voter shows that they are an adult and understand our culture of freedom, the constitution, and their fundamental responsibility as a citizen.
It's understandable if voters are mislead by fake news, but they should at least understand that lies and fake news, and propaganda exist; and show they know their job as a voter is to educate themselves diversly on the people and issues and at the polls to select whatever choice the voter decides will be best for the country.
The innovative bounded floating point system computes two limits (or bounds) that contain the represented real number. These bounds are carried through successive calculations. When the calculated result is no longer sufficiently accurate the result is so marked, as are all further calculations made using that value.
This sounds like interval arithmetic.. A.K.A. using a vectorized format for numbers that carries forward an upper and lower bound through each operation, and I wrote a Matlab datatype for that in college, but others are published in the subject already, so this is not an innovation.
I would also point out that including two limit bounds increases the size storage costs, and the complexity/number of basic elements that will be required for computation.
Breaking the door down is, counter-intuitively, a safety measure.
That's not a very good "safety measure"; innocent people have a right to be secure in their property, and seeing their door being bashed in without warning, basically gives the inhabitants carte blanche to pull out any guns they can find and open fire in the direction of intruders; the result could be fatalities of members of their "surprise raid team", and it will all be legally protected self-defense.
You have a dual-core 64-bit processor there, I believe. I would try ElementaryOS or Linux Mint KDE first.
Of course if you REALLY want fastest, then you will need a distribution that has no desktop environment and simply drops you to a command prompt after installation --- that would be something like Ubuntu server, CentOS 7, or a minimal install of SuSE or Debian.
The biggest worry (IMO) with the old hardware is Spectre/Meltdown;l security risks which will likely never have a hardware/firmware-level mitigation released for such an old platform, as warranty expired; only the partial/temporary performance-killing workarounds that can be done by patching the kernel, thus the "fastest" choice of distro could be very well be to run a vulnerable/unpatched one.