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Or use `chronic`.

Any particular reason for doing the human readable units "manually"? `du -h | sort -h` works just fine.


Nice!


The Connect RPC protocol is pretty much that: https://connectrpc.com/docs/protocol


Sounds just like an episode of Black Mirror. About as creepy as it gets these days.


A few more years and there will be an always recording pin on camera too! Who needs privacy


This reminds me of the similarly poetic output of git describe when no tags are available:

  $ git describe
  fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.


That's no accident: from the Static CMS readme:

> Static CMS is a fork of Decap (previously Netlify CMS) focusing on the core product over adding massive, scope expanding, new features.


Such a prehistoric megastructure, a dyke to prevent the flooding of Doggerland in the North Sea, is the subject of the sci-fi novel "Stone Spring" by Stephen Baxter. This headline immediately reminded me of the book. I very much enjoyed reading this story and the two sequels, and I can fully recommend it!


> Originally 'quecca' had been suggested for 1030 but was too close to a profane meaning in Portuguese

(from https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1681-7575/ac6afd, via wikipedia)

Seems like we missed opportunity to have an official metric fuckton.


For anyone wondering "queca" would be the normal spelling of the "profanity" although it's probably one of the milder ways to refer to "having sex". "Fuck" would be "foda" and variations. Queca is more of a funny way of saying having sex, definitely not as serious as "fuck".

Hyundai Kona on the other hand was way more serious and they changed it to another Island in the Portuguese market. Kona's (actual spelling "cona") closest translation would be "cunt", in the US sense in terms of seriousness, not the Australian more light one.

Source is I'm portuguese


> Two of the suggestions made were brontobyte (from 'brontosaurus') and hellabyte (from 'hell of a big number'). (Indeed, the Google unit converter function was already stating '1 hellabyte = 1000 yottabytes' [6].) This introduced a new driver for extending the range of SI prefixes: ensuring unofficial names did not get adopted de facto.

Rats. So close!


We should petition for "fukka-"


Maybe we could use this approach to revive the n-gate instead. I'd enjoy their take on this idea.

> An imternet uses OpenAI (business model: "Uber for plagiarism") to help hacker news to incorrect eachother about a topic without having to read TFA.


No, the checksum just moves to UDP; in the current system, the UDP checksum is set to 0. This is not allowed in UDP/IPv6, where the checksum, calculated over both the IPv6 pseudo-header and the UDP payload, must usually be set.


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