i generally don't subchost my commenters but damn i'm impressed. starting out with the insufferable pedantry of tebibyte (and GiB, and MiB, and all the others; nobody in history has ever said 'terabyte' and meant "1000 gigabytes"; these neologisms solve no extant problem and they deliberately ignore the way human speech works) but then landing on the indescribable brilliance of "terries", which we should all begin saying immediately
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in reply to @cathoderaydude's post:
it should be irritating but it isn't. something about the british makes it acceptable
No one says terabyte and means 10^12 bytes, unless they are selling you storage, when they do mean that! Even the better-actors in the business use the base-10 version because then you get the first bill and wonder why it's slightly bigger than you'd calculated until you remember...
I don't think we need to create a new, irritating form of language solely because of marketing nonsense. There are exactly two types of people who exist in the world: people who already know how to interpret the number on the box, and people who have never heard of a "TiB." you either do or don't understand how to filter the marketing numbers, and creating this linguistic speedbump didn't solve anything.
I assume "kiklo" is a typo of "kilo" but I immediately jumped to Κύκλωψ/Cyclops and therefore "cycles" in my head, which is even funnier because I can't think of anything that would be casually measured in k anymore other than modems which are already in baud
also as someone in the united states the idea of calling a kilobyte "a thousand grams of drugs" is pretty funny
I thought the lowercase b meant bit as in "megabits per second". That's probably also 10^3 because it's marketing as well.
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