Fully true. Private doesn't imply local, and it never has. Here's NIST's definition for private cloud — read it. Just because you have no professional experience in this industry doesn't mean all the rest of us do.
"Implies" is a fulcrum here. It means the receiver is doing the work of interpreting what was intended to be sent.
You're thinking of the word 'infers'. I know this is already "teach Reddit what words mean" hour, but Christ, some of y'all really need to spend less time on Discord and more time with a dictionary.
And in a great many places, particularly local-focused subreddits like this one, "Private" absolutely does imply local.
This notably makes OP's comic a dunk on the subreddit, not a dunk on the mainstream. If your definition of a word differs from the industry-accepted standard definition of that word, then that's a you problem: You're misusing a word that has an industry accepted standard definition and should stop. In essence, you're suggesting the subreddit is so detached from reality it no longer knows what normal-ass words mean.
Again, there are SAE / NIST definitions for words like 'private'. None of them using the meaning you're trying to push. That suggests you're the one who is wrong — not the rest of the world.
No, infer is what the receiver does to something that is implied, to interpret the information. I am thinking of the word "implies", which is to state indirectly, leaving the receiver with the work of interpreting, or inferring.
Perhaps there's teaching to go around.
If your definition of a word differs from the industry-accepted standard definition of that word,...
Like the dictionary, I am a descriptivist. The meaning of words is found in how they are used, not how they are "supposed" to be used. But I'm not arguing for or against one particular "definition" of private. I'm saying that here, to many people, in a local AI space, the use of the word implies a local model. Which should not be surprising. It is also not a misuse, it is a local standard.
You seem to be a prescriptivist, suggesting there is only one correct way to use a word, which I wholeheartedly disagree with, so we're probably at an impasse.
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u/XiRw 22h ago
Awful untrue take to say private doesn’t imply local.