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Nobody says "gibibyte" out loud without giggling or getting giggled at. I think we should start saying "gigglebyte".


I've been calling them Kibbles, Marbles, Gerbils and Tribbles


Pebble scale computing is all the rage right now.


Know that several of your coworkers are laughing at you in their minds every time you utter such foolishness.


I have had to debug enough fires because of stupid unit confusion that I now make the point of being extremely pedantic with the use of the right unit.


jigglybits works too in the correct company

also cal state irvine had a compsci prof who said "jigga-byte"


One point twenty one jiggabytes??? Great Scott!




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