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In 2016, Prokopowicz and Berg-Andreassen defined a container ship with a capacity of 10,000 to 20,000 TEU as a Very Large Container Ship (VLCS), while that with

In 2016, Prokopowicz and Berg-Andreassen defined a container ship with a capacity of 10,000 to 20,000 TEU as a Very Large Container Ship (VLCS), while that with a capacity greater than 20,000 TEU as an Ultra Large Container Ship (ULCS) They are gonna run out of larger adjectives pretty soon.

aasasd 6y ago
Just call Capcom. “Super Container Ship II' Hyper Turbo Extra Special Champion Edition HD Remix”. Btw, there's a similar conundrum with large telescope projects: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26333391 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26333391
- GekkePrutser 6y ago
  Almost like a Samsung phone. Large container ship 20 Ultra Plus 5G Fan edition
  - oblio 6y ago
    Samsung at least uses 1 qualifier per device. S21 Plus, S21 Ultra. Apple's 12 Pro Max, though...
  - berkes 6y ago
    The phone gets so hot, it needs a fan?
    - Tepix 6y ago
      Like the Nubia Red Magic phones you mean?
- ornornor 6y ago
  You forgot “Pro”, which is what makes a variant the bigger one.
  - dylan604 6y ago
    I thought Pro meant remove all of the ports, and make it ultra thin
    - drewzero1 6y ago
      Removing all of the ports could really be a problem for a ship!
      - dylan604 6y ago
        Nah, there's a dongle to connect to the dock without a port
  - aasasd 6y ago
    Well, you see, the names I listed above are all actual ones used by Capcom.
- KSteffensen 6y ago
  Same with IC size. Started with SSI (Small Scale Integration) then MSI (Medium Scale Integration), LSI (Large Scale Integration) and finally VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) in the early 1980ies. There was some talk of ULSI (Ultra Large Scale Integration), but thankfully this never caught on. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_circuit#ULSI,_WSI,_SoC_and_3D-IC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_circuit#ULSI,_WSI,_...
viraptor 6y ago
While it's not SI yet, they could still use Hella https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hella#SI_prefix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hella#SI_prefix I'm all for Hella Container Ship
- dylan604 6y ago
  Now, hella is just a modifier. Hella Big Container Ship dwarfs Hella Small Excavator
masklinn 6y ago
Screen resolutions have not and they are way worse. Ship sizes can just reuse that replacing “graphics array” with “container ship” e.g. Quad Size Extended Container Ship.
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_Microft 6y ago
Astronomers to the rescue! https://xkcd.com/1294/ https://xkcd.com/1294/
ygra 6y ago
That's been the case for display resolutions for a while as well ... although most of them can probably be parsed by the regex [UWXVQ]+GA.
moonbug 6y ago
they just need to take a lead from astronomers https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overwhelmingly_Large_Telescope https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overwhelmingly_Large_Telesco...
implements 6y ago
Well in frequency terminology they’ve still got Super Large, Extremely Large and Terrifically Large left!

aasasd 6y ago

Just call Capcom. “Super Container Ship II' Hyper Turbo Extra Special Champion Edition HD Remix”. Btw, there's a similar conundrum with large telescope projects: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26333391 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26333391

GekkePrutser 6y ago
Almost like a Samsung phone. Large container ship 20 Ultra Plus 5G Fan edition
- oblio 6y ago
  Samsung at least uses 1 qualifier per device. S21 Plus, S21 Ultra. Apple's 12 Pro Max, though...
- berkes 6y ago
  The phone gets so hot, it needs a fan?
  - Tepix 6y ago
    Like the Nubia Red Magic phones you mean?
ornornor 6y ago
You forgot “Pro”, which is what makes a variant the bigger one.
- dylan604 6y ago
  I thought Pro meant remove all of the ports, and make it ultra thin
  - drewzero1 6y ago
    Removing all of the ports could really be a problem for a ship!
    - dylan604 6y ago
      Nah, there's a dongle to connect to the dock without a port
- aasasd 6y ago
  Well, you see, the names I listed above are all actual ones used by Capcom.
KSteffensen 6y ago
Same with IC size. Started with SSI (Small Scale Integration) then MSI (Medium Scale Integration), LSI (Large Scale Integration) and finally VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) in the early 1980ies. There was some talk of ULSI (Ultra Large Scale Integration), but thankfully this never caught on. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_circuit#ULSI,_WSI,_SoC_and_3D-IC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_circuit#ULSI,_WSI,_...

viraptor 6y ago

While it's not SI yet, they could still use Hella https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hella#SI_prefix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hella#SI_prefix I'm all for Hella Container Ship

dylan604 6y ago
Now, hella is just a modifier. Hella Big Container Ship dwarfs Hella Small Excavator

masklinn 6y ago

Screen resolutions have not and they are way worse. Ship sizes can just reuse that replacing “graphics array” with “container ship” e.g. Quad Size Extended Container Ship.

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_Microft 6y ago

Astronomers to the rescue! https://xkcd.com/1294/ https://xkcd.com/1294/

ygra 6y ago

That's been the case for display resolutions for a while as well ... although most of them can probably be parsed by the regex [UWXVQ]+GA.

moonbug 6y ago

they just need to take a lead from astronomers https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overwhelmingly_Large_Telescope https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overwhelmingly_Large_Telesco...

implements 6y ago

Well in frequency terminology they’ve still got Super Large, Extremely Large and Terrifically Large left!