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Every day Hacker News titles, stories, and comments have acronyms and abbreviations I've never seen before, and I have to search for the term to know what it's
by sema4hacker 1y ago
Every day Hacker News titles, stories, and comments have acronyms and abbreviations I've never seen before, and I have to search for the term to know what it's talking about. I know what a parsec is, but I've never actually seen the pc abbreviation used before. At least I learn something new every day.
- a1o 1y agoYou didn't mention but I guess pc here stands for parsecs
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- DrBazza 1y agoBarns was a particular favourite from my university years. Imagine my surprise encountering 'mb' and it wasn't millibars. Then again, I also had to deal with microhertz and nanohertz.
- pezezin 1y agoAt least it wasn't megabytes... Spoiler: "megabytes" are abbreviated as MB, but many people don't see to remember that SI units are case-sensitive.
- fc417fc802 1y agoAlso keep in mind the difference between MB and MiB. You almost never want MB. You usually either want MiB or Mb.