Your explanation is also an oversimplification that leaves out a lot of key details.
TDF is ran by a board. The board is supposed to contain 10 people, it currently has 7. This board is expected to be elected by members on a regular schedule. The elections are late, because the rump board has twice delayed the elections. Instead of holding elections to fill out the board, the rump board chose to change the bylaws, through a legally questionable process (properly, they would have to hold a vote of trustees, but chose not to), to allow them to exclude people from voting in the elections. Then they use the new bylaws to exclude many of their political opponents, on very flimsy grounds⁰.
You don't need to even consider which side of this conflict is technical or non-technical to see that there is something rotten here.
0: And yes, the grounds are very flimsy indeed. Excluding people in case of active litigation sounds sensible, until you consider that the litigation was started by the TDF board, and is frivolous. Collabra is using the trademarks under valid license.
LibreOffice exists because the devs of OpenOffice forked it. If the project leadership now ejects the devs, I think that the new fork will be the living one.
Well, then something's wrong. I click on different pages in the documentation and the whole page gets rerendered. Seems like it's not delivering what's promised.
LTPO has problems with uniformity of brightness, that get worse the larger the panels are. On a phone screen, this is usually not perceivable, but if you made a 27" screen out of it, most such screens would be visibly brighter in some corner or other.
Centralized inference is more economically efficient⁰, and should be cheaper for most users once competition squeezes the air out of token prices. It remains very valid for anyone who wants to maintain their privacy, ofc.
0: Because the only way to get cache locality out of a LLM is to batch invocations. A centralized system where the server handles thousands of invocations at the same time only needs a tiny fraction of the total memory throughput as having all of those invocations run locally on different machines would.
It wasn't just that. Mendocino wasn't a low bin, it was an entirely separate die from Pentium II. At the time, Pentium II used a 512kB off-die L2 cache, running at half cpu clock. To save on costs, Celeron 300A moved to a 128kB L2, which was integrated on the CPU die, and which ran at full cpu clock.
And it turns out that for a lot of software, a smaller but faster L2 was actually better than the bigger one. And because there were no fast products that used the Mendocino die, even the fastest of them were sold as Celerons. 300A was particularly nice because very nearly all of them could run at 450, and 100MHz FSB motherboards were widely available to pair with the fixed 4.5 multiplier of the CPU.
The Pentium was not just pipelined but also superscalar; it had two pipelines (U and V). U implemented all instructions, V only implemented a subset of simpler ones, and only when using simple (prefix-less) encodings.
As the CPU was not out of order, to execute two instructions per clock you had to pair them so that the second one was simple, and did not use the output of the first one. Existing code and most compilers around at the time were generally bad at this, but things like inner render loops in games could make a lot of use if you wrote them in assembly.
K6 was great at everything other than FP. Unfortunately for AMD, a year before its launch ID released Quake, for which the primary metric of performance was basically "how fast are you at FP". And Quake very rapidly became the common benchmark against which CPU performance was measured.
To win, Cox did not need to prove that they sold their product without intent to infringe. To win, the plaintiff would have had to prove that Cox had intent. The difference in burden of proof is in practice massive.
TDF is ran by a board. The board is supposed to contain 10 people, it currently has 7. This board is expected to be elected by members on a regular schedule. The elections are late, because the rump board has twice delayed the elections. Instead of holding elections to fill out the board, the rump board chose to change the bylaws, through a legally questionable process (properly, they would have to hold a vote of trustees, but chose not to), to allow them to exclude people from voting in the elections. Then they use the new bylaws to exclude many of their political opponents, on very flimsy grounds⁰.
You don't need to even consider which side of this conflict is technical or non-technical to see that there is something rotten here.
0: And yes, the grounds are very flimsy indeed. Excluding people in case of active litigation sounds sensible, until you consider that the litigation was started by the TDF board, and is frivolous. Collabra is using the trademarks under valid license.
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