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  • Re: Please avoid using ambiguous language

    From Paul Tagliamonte@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Wed Mar 23 16:00:01 2022
    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''
    <[email protected]> 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

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  • From Elena ``of Valhalla''@21:1/5 to On debian-private somebody on Wed Mar 23 15:50:01 2022
    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''

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  • From Samuel Henrique@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Wed Mar 23 16:10:02 2022
    On Wed 23 Mar 2022, 14:55 Paul Tagliamonte, <[email protected]> wrote:

    According to nm.d.o, we have 1.022 kilomembers (kDd).


    So we're only 2 DD's away from 1 kibimember (KiDd)?

    <div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed 23 Mar 2022, 14:55 Paul Tagliamonte, &lt;<a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0
    0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">According to nm.d.o, we have 1.022 kilomembers (kDd).<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So we&#39;re only 2 DD&#39;s away from 1 kibimember (KiDd)?</div></div>

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  • From Adam Borowski@21:1/5 to Samuel Henrique on Wed Mar 23 16:20:01 2022
    On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 03:05:09PM +0000, Samuel Henrique wrote:
    On Wed 23 Mar 2022, 14:55 Paul Tagliamonte, <[email protected]> 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!
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    ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ smelly goodie centaur.
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    ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ from full hp in RL, please nerf!

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  • From Gunnar Wolf@21:1/5 to All on Wed Mar 23 16:30:01 2022
    Samuel Henrique dijo [Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 03:05:09PM +0000]:
    On Wed 23 Mar 2022, 14:55 Paul Tagliamonte, <[email protected]> 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...

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  • From Paul Tagliamonte@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Wed Mar 23 16:30:02 2022
    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 <[email protected]> wrote:

    On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 03:05:09PM +0000, Samuel Henrique wrote:
    On Wed 23 Mar 2022, 14:55 Paul Tagliamonte, <[email protected]> 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

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  • From Jonathan Carter@21:1/5 to Paul Tagliamonte on Wed Mar 23 17:10:01 2022
    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

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  • From Adam Borowski@21:1/5 to Jonathan Carter on Wed Mar 23 17:30:01 2022
    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!

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