Poll: how do you pronounce the prefix Gibi?
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Continuing the discussion from Poll: how do you pronounce the prefix Giga?:
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dʒ ɪ b ɪ
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(ɡ) ɪ b ɪ
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"Why the B*****m are you using that prefix?"
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@chubertdev's suggestion should really be an option.
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And why does that winkie have a black eye? :/
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I don't use it but I'd pronounce it gibby.
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Maybe it smacked itself in the face when it found out it was being used on Discourse.
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And another +1 because the people near me in the pub wondered why I did literally LOL...
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i pronounce it Jib
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As far as I can recall, I have never pronounced that prefix at all. I'm good with that.
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Which option corresponds to “Die painfully and burn in Hell for eternity, O inventor of that prefix!”?
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The Old New Thing link?
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The Old New Thing link?
Allow me to correct the first post to link option 3 to the link I intended it to link to, instead of duplicating option 4...
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Which option corresponds to “Die painfully and burn in Hell for eternity, O inventor of that prefix!”?
I am wholeheartedly in favor of the traditional kilo- etc. prefixes being powers of 10 and using something else for the "near"by powers of 2, and think that calling 1024 bytes a kilobyte was a nearsighted mistake. But... I also kind of agree with this, and wish they hadn't picked something that makes me feel like a tool if I were to actually say it.
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You know what irritates me?
The pedantic dickweedery about "correct SI prefixes" being used when talking about a non-SI unit.
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I voted
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because I don’t pronounce it, but if I would, I would use ʒibi.
Also, selecting text in polls without accidentally changing the poll option is challenging, to say the least.
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Geekibyte would be better 'cos only geeks would ever use it. Amiright?
1024 would be Kikabyte, which is a b*****m of a lot better than kibi.
1048576 would be Mekabyte, which is like Mecha, which is cool as any fule no.
And 10995... would be Tekabyte, which is like Tech, which is like apt and shit.
Then pekabyte, ekabyte, zeka, yoka. It's all good and nobody would have to feel like a prick saying it.
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I made a proposal in another thread:
@aliceif said:They should use proper names for proper units and call the silly ones HDD manufacturers use ketrobytes, metrobytes, getrobytes and tetrobytes.
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That's certainly an improvement on kibi and gibi but I prefer the K's because I'm biased.
However, it might be better to take the opportunity to work towards yodabytes before it's too late.
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