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Re: Question: SSD speed

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On 10/8/2020 7:10 PM, Michael Stone wrote:
>>     Can you provide any data to back that up?  I find it often to be 
>> quite the opposite.  Sloppy use of language very frequently leads to 
>> miscommunication, sometimes of a very serious nature.
> 
> And yet correcting people in contexts where there's no real ambiguity 
> simply derails the conversation and distracts from the real point.

	I will concede that can happen, but the point is divergent from mine. 
There is a difference between taking care one's own speech is precise, 
making a general request that people take care with their speech, and 
correcting someone else's speech.

> Context is important. Are you confusing this mailing list with a two 
> hundred million dollar science program?

	I made a general statement that holds true for both.  I am not 
confusing anything.  Whether context is important or not is beside the 
point.  Whether three hundred million dollars is at stake or not, 
precision will serve one well.

>>> And how, exactly, does that matter?
>>
>>     If you don't understand how 1,000,000,000,000 bytes is different 
>> from 1,099,511,627,776 bytes, then I don't know what to tell you.  
>> They are not the same.  They are different.  Whether that difference 
>> is significant or not depends upon the situation.
> 
> You dodged the question of how that actually matters, in context. I'm 
> just going to stop here, enjoy pedantry.

	What does "mattering" have to do with it?  Different is different.  By 
simply being consistent and precise, one needn't worry about whether 
something "matters" or not.  The situation is much like any other good 
habit.  Being habitually precise covers one whether the situation is of 
great import or not.

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  Re: Question: SSD speed Georgi Naplatanov <gosho@oles.biz> - 2020-10-07 11:40 +0200
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  Re: Question: SSD speed "Jeremy Nicoll" <jn.ml.dbn.25@letterboxes.org> - 2020-10-07 12:00 +0200
    Re: Question: SSD speed Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2020-10-07 12:50 +0200
      Re: Question: SSD speed Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2020-10-07 15:10 +0200
        Re: Question: SSD speed Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-10-08 11:00 +0200
          Re: Question: SSD speed "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2020-10-08 12:00 +0200
            [SOLVED] Re: Question: SSD speed Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2020-10-08 12:20 +0200
            Re: Question: SSD speed Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2020-10-08 15:20 +0200
              Re: Question: SSD speed "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2020-10-08 16:00 +0200
                Re: Question: SSD speed Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2020-10-08 16:20 +0200
                Re: Question: SSD speed Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2020-10-08 17:40 +0200
                Re: Question: SSD speed Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2020-10-08 17:50 +0200
                Re: Question: SSD speed Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2020-10-08 18:00 +0200
              Re: Question: SSD speed Leslie Rhorer <lesrhorer@att.net> - 2020-10-08 20:30 +0200
                Re: Question: SSD speed Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-10-08 20:40 +0200
                Re: Question: SSD speed Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2020-10-08 21:20 +0200
                Re: Question: SSD speed Leslie Rhorer <lesrhorer@att.net> - 2020-10-09 02:00 +0200
                Re: Question: SSD speed Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2020-10-09 02:20 +0200
                Re: Question: SSD speed Leslie Rhorer <lesrhorer@att.net> - 2020-10-09 02:40 +0200
                Re: Question: SSD speed Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2020-10-09 00:20 +0200
                Re: Question: SSD speed Leslie Rhorer <lesrhorer@att.net> - 2020-10-09 02:20 +0200
                Re: Question: SSD speed Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2020-10-09 15:50 +0200
    Re: Question: SSD speed Alberto Sentieri <22t@tripolho.com> - 2020-10-07 13:30 +0200
      Re: Question: SSD speed "Jeremy Nicoll" <jn.ml.dbn.25@letterboxes.org> - 2020-10-07 14:50 +0200
        Re: Question: SSD speed Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-10-08 10:50 +0200
    Re: Question: SSD speed Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2020-10-07 18:50 +0200
      Re: Question: SSD speed "Jeremy Nicoll" <jn.ml.dbn.25@letterboxes.org> - 2020-10-07 18:50 +0200
      Re: Question: SSD speed Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2020-10-07 19:50 +0200
        [SOLVED] Re: Question: SSD speed Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2020-10-07 20:00 +0200
        [SOLVED] Re: Question: SSD speed Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2020-10-08 09:10 +0200
  Re: Question: SSD speed Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-10-08 11:00 +0200

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