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Re: Question: SSD speed

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On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 06:49:56PM -0500, Leslie Rhorer wrote:
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>On 10/8/2020 2:17 PM, Michael Stone wrote:
>>On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 01:27:15PM -0500, Leslie Rhorer wrote:
>>>    Well, what, really, is wrong with pedantry?
>>
>>It makes conversation with humans harder
>
>	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. 

>> with no corresponding benefit.
>
>	There are many benefits to accuracy in communication, and many risks 
>to poor accuracy in communication.  Just ask NASA.  Their $328 Million 
>Mars Climate Orbiter was lost due to miscommunication between 
>engineering teams.

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

>>>    Not only that, but the discrepancy grows exponentially with 
>>>the order of magnitude.  The difference between 1 KB and 1 KiB is 
>>>only 24 bytes, or 2.4%.  The difference between 1 TB and 1 TiB is 
>>>9.9%, which is getting to be pretty significant.  That, not to 
>>>mention the fact 93 GiB is a pretty good chunk of storage.
>>
>>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.

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Question: SSD speed Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2020-10-07 10:50 +0200
  Re: Question: SSD speed Georgi Naplatanov <gosho@oles.biz> - 2020-10-07 11:40 +0200
  Re: Question: SSD speed Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2020-10-07 12:00 +0200
  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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