I'm reading that L1 takes 4-5 cycles to read on modern CPUs, whereas it was just one cycle in the late 1980s.

It kind of reminds me of the equality of opportunity people versus the equality of outcome people. One sets the starting conditions for developers, the other the ending conditions for users.

You forgot the shareholders, who are not users but have less freedom under the GPL.

BTW there's a summary today that has bullet-point markup and it just wraps around without proper formatting. Title is "Show HN: Tiny-vLLM – high performance LLM inference engine in C++ and CUDA".

I declined things like rm -rf because the path was relative and it wasn't showing me the current directory. How would I know what project it was in?

The individual franchises can always get the clue and drop being a franchise, just be a local store.

I tried the other person's videos and had to stop after about five seconds. Mr. French's was a good watch.

*grey, since it was Star Wars

Unfortunately this makes every Bricks and Minifigs store a risk to do business with, selling or buying. You're either supporting a criminal enterprise or risking being a victim of one.

AI is downgrading non-AI search results with AI slop pages that get ranked high.

Years back Google temporarily put their old database from the good times up for searching. You could actually find technical results reliably. It was so nice.