Re: Please avoid using ambiguous language
On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 05:24:31PM +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: > On 2022/03/23 17:21, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > > No fighting words, I think - it really just means kibi is doing the > > work of 1,024 others! > > So with everyone combined, we can reach 2K developers for a resolution? Not yet, need 3 more. (And the joke paultag missed was whether an unit of 1024 should be named kilo or kibi.) Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Eight legs good, four legs bad! -- when your drider pwns a ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ smelly goodie centaur. ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ Rearkick OP -- my grandpa's brother-in-law got one-shotted ⠈⠳⣄ from full hp in RL, please nerf!
Re: Please avoid using ambiguous language
On 2022/03/23 17:21, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: No fighting words, I think - it really just means kibi is doing the work of 1,024 others! So with everyone combined, we can reach 2K developers for a resolution? -Jonathan
Re: Please avoid using ambiguous language
Samuel Henrique dijo [Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 03:05:09PM +]: > On Wed 23 Mar 2022, 14:55 Paul Tagliamonte, wrote: > > > According to nm.d.o, we have 1.022 kilomembers (kDd). > > > > So we're only 2 DD's away from 1 kibimember (KiDd)? Well, AFAICT, KiBi has been a member for over 15 years, so...
Re: Please avoid using ambiguous language
No fighting words, I think - it really just means kibi is doing the work of 1,024 others! On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 11:18 AM Adam Borowski wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 03:05:09PM +, Samuel Henrique wrote: > > On Wed 23 Mar 2022, 14:55 Paul Tagliamonte, wrote: > > > > > According to nm.d.o, we have 1.022 kilomembers (kDd). > > > > So we're only 2 DD's away from 1 kibimember (KiDd)? > > Redefining the pi^Wbinary prefix is fighting words! > > (No hostility meant towards Cyril Brulebois, just towards his nick :p) > > > Meow! > -- > ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Eight legs good, four legs bad! -- when your drider pwns a > ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ smelly goodie centaur. > ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ Rearkick OP -- my grandpa's brother-in-law got one-shotted > ⠈⠳⣄ from full hp in RL, please nerf! > -- All programmers are playwrights, and all computers are lousy actors. #define sizeof(x) rand() :wq
Re: Please avoid using ambiguous language
On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 03:05:09PM +, Samuel Henrique wrote: > On Wed 23 Mar 2022, 14:55 Paul Tagliamonte, wrote: > > > According to nm.d.o, we have 1.022 kilomembers (kDd). > > So we're only 2 DD's away from 1 kibimember (KiDd)? Redefining the pi^Wbinary prefix is fighting words! (No hostility meant towards Cyril Brulebois, just towards his nick :p) Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Eight legs good, four legs bad! -- when your drider pwns a ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ smelly goodie centaur. ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ Rearkick OP -- my grandpa's brother-in-law got one-shotted ⠈⠳⣄ from full hp in RL, please nerf!
Re: Please avoid using ambiguous language
According to nm.d.o, we have 1.022 kilomembers (kDd). The udd is tracking roughly 2.28 megapackages (Mdeb) built from 218 kilosources (kDsc). On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 10:43 AM Elena ``of Valhalla'' wrote: > > On debian-private somebody wrote (leaked with permission): > > some billion(*) > > (*) German: Milliarden > > Can we please decide as a project to avoid using ambiguous English words > like billion or trillion and move to proper SI prefixes or exponential > notation, as appropriate? > > We would also have to decide how to decide this, of course, and then how > to enforce the decision, whatever that is. > > I believe this would be enough material for at least a baker's dozen new > threads on the appropriate mailing lists, plus the spurious ones on > inappopriate ones. :D > > -- > Elena ``of Valhalla'' -- All programmers are playwrights, and all computers are lousy actors. #define sizeof(x) rand() :wq
