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This is a problem for me. I'm from east-bay. Every thing that's hella stuff is hella stuff, so I've been calling various amounts of hella data as hella-bytes (o
by edoceo 6y ago
This is a problem for me. I'm from east-bay. Every thing that's hella stuff is hella stuff, so I've been calling various amounts of hella data as hella-bytes (or my fast internet give me hella-BPS). A big cultural shift for it to mean a precise amount.
It's like aksing some New Englander to define what "a wicked lotta" is...it's hella! Oh! Why didn't you say so?
- IIAOPSW 6y agomad bytes.
- erhk 6y agoThat can be 10^30
- nerpderp82 6y agoF*ck yeah! https://www.hella.com/hella-us/en/History-139.html https://www.hella.com/hella-us/en/History-139.html From my experience it comes from the power of the lights often used on 4x4 vehicles used by the inhabitants.
- edoceo 6y agoBut this one is some Cascadia slag right?
- S_A_P 6y agoI have an issue with it and I am not sure that my stance is correct. The problem as I see it is that making things casual feels like it’s taking the discipline out of the discipline of science. I also just think that slang is not necessarily long term speech. I mean some words hang around and enter the lexicon (e.g. cool started at least 60-70 years ago and seems to still be acceptable to say) but others are very generational and transient. (23 skidoo, rad) On the other hand, I would likely be saying hellabyte in my best Del The Funky Homosapien accent. He’s from the Bay Area and throws at least 5 “hellas“ in every interview. But seriously I think maybe a middle ground from overly clinical sounding and overly casual sounding should be the aim...
- Apocryphon 6y agoTrue, but that's already been the case in biology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_biological_names https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_biological_nam...
- semi-extrinsic 6y agoWeird that this list does not include the "sneaky fucker strategy" - or perhaps this omission is indication that biologists don't find that term unusual.
- stock_toaster 6y agoOr they just omitted it to be ... sneaky.
- ian-g 6y agoI don't think you're wrong to be cautious about making science too casual, but I don't think everybody will immediately look at the word "hellabyte" and think "Oh, somebody from the Bay named this" I can't say it sounds any more silly to me than zettabyte or yottabyte
- koliber 6y agoI represent the perspective parent supposed. Hellabyte sounds as reasonable as any other prefix. Sometimes science is top down. Sometimes it’s bottom up. I welcome a balanced mix of both approaches. Let popularity (in an extremely broad sense of the word) decide which prefixes suggested by the masses win, as well as who gets to sit on committees that will dictate new prefix suggestions and approve them. When you look around, this is just how the world works.
- psyc 6y agoThe various quarks would like a word.
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- dheera 6y agoI wish "metric assload" would be a precise amount
- nabilhat 6y agoFrom what I've been told in the past, it's exactly 1/1000 of a metric asston. I couldn't find anything on Wikipedia to back that up, however.
- kingaillas 6y agoThe "buttload" is a measurement, so perhaps you could shift terminology to "metric buttload". https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/buttload https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/buttload Since the obsolete buttload is 384 gallons, perhaps the "metric buttload" could be 384 liters.
- edoceo 6y agoI got you. Hella = a lot, I mean, really a lot Shit load is more than hella. Metric shit load is smaller than imperial shit load (like C to F) I assume ass load and shit load are very close (get it ;) ) Naturally a Fsck load is more than that. But all, IMHO, are intended to be large, yet imprecise.
- akiselev 6y agoMetric shit load is smaller than imperial shit load (like C to F) Except in cases of metric shit tonnes vs imperial shit tons in which case tonnes is bigger by ~10%.