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Elena ``of Valhalla''
Mar 23, 2022, 10:50:02 AM3/23/22
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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
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
> 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
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
Paul Tagliamonte
Mar 23, 2022, 11:00:02 AM3/23/22
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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).
--
All programmers are playwrights, and all computers are lousy actors.
#define sizeof(x) rand()
:wq
The udd is tracking roughly 2.28 megapackages (Mdeb) built from 218
kilosources (kDsc).
All programmers are playwrights, and all computers are lousy actors.
#define sizeof(x) rand()
:wq
Samuel Henrique
Mar 23, 2022, 11:10:03 AM3/23/22
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On Wed 23 Mar 2022, 14:55 Paul Tagliamonte, <pau...@ubuntu.com> wrote:
According to nm.d.o, we have 1.022 kilomembers (kDd).
So we're only 2 DD's away from 1 kibimember (KiDd)?
Adam Borowski
Mar 23, 2022, 11:20:02 AM3/23/22
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(No hostility meant towards Cyril Brulebois, just towards his nick :p)
Meow!
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Gunnar Wolf
Mar 23, 2022, 11:30:02 AM3/23/22
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Samuel Henrique dijo [Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 03:05:09PM +0000]:
> On Wed 23 Mar 2022, 14:55 Paul Tagliamonte, <pau...@ubuntu.com> 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...
>
> > According to nm.d.o, we have 1.022 kilomembers (kDd).
> >
>
> So we're only 2 DD's away from 1 kibimember (KiDd)?
Paul Tagliamonte
Mar 23, 2022, 11:30:03 AM3/23/22
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No fighting words, I think - it really just means kibi is doing the
work of 1,024 others!
work of 1,024 others!
Jonathan Carter
Mar 23, 2022, 12:10:02 PM3/23/22
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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?
> No fighting words, I think - it really just means kibi is doing the
> work of 1,024 others!
-Jonathan
Adam Borowski
Mar 23, 2022, 12:30:03 PM3/23/22
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(And the joke paultag missed was whether an unit of 1024 should be named
kilo or kibi.)
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