• GraniteM@lemmy.world
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    Broke: Memory units in optimistic numbers of megabytes and gigabytes.

    Woke: Memory units in astronomically-high numbers of gigabytes and terabytes.

    Bespoke: Memory units in totally incomprehensible units like kiloquads or exanodes.

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      Slaps the superships central computer “This here runs on 12 bits of memory! Our engineers really outdone themselves with optimisation this time.”

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      Or never specify. “That spacestation has massive computing power” “How big?” “Massive.”

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        “This baby makes the NASA computer seems like a V-Tech.”

        Meanwhile at NASA, they compute simulations on like 2 PlayStation 3s… With a high accuracy.

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      My pet peeve one

      Broke: measuring distance in millions / billions of kilometers

      Woke: measuring distances in gigameters / terameters