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Well, I wouldn't say I have a beefy car or a beefy sword: there's some historical bit of linguistic connection that seems to have caused people to describe a se
by saurik 1y ago
Well, I wouldn't say I have a beefy car or a beefy sword: there's some historical bit of linguistic connection that seems to have caused people to describe a server with the adjective "beefy", rather than "powerful", "hefty", "stacked", or... "chonky" ;P. Coming up with some options, I think my favorite might be "cranked"?
- rkomorn 1y agoThe first definition for beefy from Merriam-Webster is: heavily and powerfully built . As someone who's had to rack some pretty heavy servers with lots of GPUs, CPUs, NVMe drives, and RAM, that turned out to be quite powerful, I'd say "beefy" is accurate. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beefy https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beefy Side note edit: hefty and chonky don't tell me much about power. Stacked is usually more about a team or group of things (and for individuals, I'd rather not see it).
- davkan 1y agoI wouldn’t describe a corvette as beefy but I might call its engine beefy and i would definitely call a diesel truck beefy. I think servers, especially bare metal, are in the category of grunt and raw power. Beefy feels right.
- airtonix 1y ago[dead]