Entirely different perspective: If I have to add a separate repo, then this is a red flag.
> Any serious project in this space supports as many distros as possible.
Wrong way around. Any serious product is supported by lots of distros. Distros curate their selection and if nobody bothered packaging your stuff, then your stuff is not good enough.
How would "bit-identical" or "free of side effects" make an actual difference in practice?
Rollback is already very easy with filesystem snapshots.
Configs are already tracked by etckeeper.
New laptop: either copy the whole drive or the package list and dotfiles. Also, how often do you have to get new laptops for this to be relevant ?
For a 5 (five) document library you added 3 (three) documents just to override a single response. Nothing at all is hidden and all three documents are in clear human understandable language.
This is not an "attack" or "poisoning" but just everything working as intended.
The apple pricing ladder is all about the confusingly named overlap.
The Air with more ram costs just a bit less than the pro non-pro. But then maybe you want the pro pro? Or do you need the pro max? Oh, and the ultra will come later but not for laptops. Also it will then be a smaller number M but ultra.
Oh, and the iPad air is, of course, heavier than the pro because "air".
> Local backend server with full API
Local model integration (vLLM, Ollama, LM Studio, etc.)
Complete isolation from cloud services
Zero external dependencies
Seems open source/open weight to me. They additionally offer some cloud hosted version.
Web 2.0 is around 2003 or so and chrome would not even exist for another few years.
Giving Firefox/phoenix/Netscape the majority credit for the first fall of IE seems accurate.
The rise of chrome happened afterwards and by then IE also fell much deeper than 55%.
> Because an FFT (short for "Fast Fourier Transform") is nothing more than a curve-fit of sines and cosines to some given data
That is not even wrong. A Fourier transform is a basis expansion. In particular, the full expansion is exact (not just an approximation). Of course, truncated expansions are approximations.
The actually interesting part: Why is this basis expansion so much more useful than, e.g. expanding into some eigenfunctions, Hermite polynomials, etc.? The decomposition into (complex) exponentials converts between addition and multiplication, i. e. sin(x+y), cos(x+y) you get from multiplying sin(x), cos(x), sin(y) and cos(y).
This in turn has important implications such as turning derivatives into multipliers.
More generally you can consider nonlinear Fourier transforms with different groups and generators other than exponentials.
TLDR: It is a transform. What you are transforming between is what makes it so useful.
Pay me 8x to get 10x, great. Pay me 8x to get 3x, nope.