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Oh, the pedantry is strong on HN today!

• kragen 6y ago
  What is your comment intended to add to this discussion? It's not pedantry to point out that tape drives do not have hundred-millisecond access latency. That's low by two or three orders of magnitude; hardly a pedantic distinction — it's as large as the difference between SSDs and spinning rust. By contrast, it would be pedantic to complain, for example, that many spinning-rust disks now have access latencies closer to 8ms than to 10ms.
  • google234123 6y ago
    Sorry but using tilde to mean approximately is extremely common. Most people don't know who to get the double tilda symbol. It's obvious that the author wasn't suggesting negative time.
    • kragen 6y ago
      That's what I said in the first place, google234123.