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Re:Alibaba Cloud claims to reduce Nvidia GPU use by 82% by tsunamifury on Monday October 20, 2025 @11:14AM (#45644881)
False.

Westernism is broadly an extension of the academic notion of classicism, starting in Egypt and then Greece Rome and into Europe and the Americas.

Re:Alibaba Cloud claims to reduce Nvidia GPU use by 82% by notepad0x90 on Monday October 20, 2025 @02:33PM (#45647435)
It's not an academic notion (at least not strictly), since virtually everyone uses it routinely.
Re:Alibaba Cloud claims to reduce Nvidia GPU use by 82% by tsunamifury on Monday October 20, 2025 @03:44PM (#45648318)
Oddly since I got many downvotes with this statement, it's clear the average hacker news reader knows very little about world history or common knowledge
Re:Alibaba Cloud claims to reduce Nvidia GPU use by 82% by notepad0x90 on Monday October 20, 2025 @04:45PM (#45649130)
That's very reductive of you. "western" like "3rd world" is used very differently than what you or academics would like.
Re:Alibaba Cloud claims to reduce Nvidia GPU use by 82% by tsunamifury on Monday October 20, 2025 @08:15PM (#45651009)
I feel like you didn't even grasp the base sentence meaning. "Classicism" is an academic concept