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I wonder if there is anything that feels this pedantic when I'm trying to carefully explain it to someone else. This is such a useless distinction in my mind.

by cschep 15y ago

I wonder if there is anything that feels this pedantic when I'm trying to carefully explain it to someone else. This is such a useless distinction in my mind. Alas.. someone somewhere is calling their computer a hard drive and that would cause me to shudder. :)

RandallBrown 15y ago
Try explaining to someone the difference between a gigabyte and a gibibyte.
- cschep 15y ago
  You're braver than I. :)
- kazoolist 15y ago
  Done: "In terms of standard gigabytes, 1GiB ≈ 1.074GB"
dclowd9901 15y ago
In strict terms, a font is not a font at all. The word is erroneous in spelling. A "fount" would be the correct terminology; somewhere along the way (probably because of mispronunciation), the spelling was changed. If he's going to go full pedant on this, he might as well disregard the word altogether.