GraniteM comments on Anon has seen it all before

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Broke: Memory units in optimistic numbers of megabytes and gigabytes.

Woke: Memory units in astronomically-high numbers of gigabytes and terabytes.

Bespoke: Memory units in totally incomprehensible units like kiloquads or exanodes.

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[–] Demdaru@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Slaps the superships central computer "This here runs on 12 bits of memory! Our engineers really outdone themselves with optimisation this time."

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[–] heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago*

I mean, the word size — alone — on the Voyager space crafts seems to have gone further than anything today.

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago

It only has one memory cell, but we've fully implemented real computation

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[–] YerLam@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Or never specify. "That spacestation has massive computing power" "How big?" "Massive."

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[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 3 points 2 weeks ago

"This baby has enough memory to make elephants look forgetful." "...what's an elephant?" "No clue."

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[–] DerEnder@lemmus.org 2 points 1 week ago

"This baby makes the NASA computer seems like a V-Tech."

Meanwhile at NASA, they compute simulations on like 2 PlayStation 3s... With a high accuracy.

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[–] DahGangalang@infosec.pub 4 points 1 week ago

My pet peeve one

Broke: measuring distance in millions / billions of kilometers

Woke: measuring distances in gigameters / terameters

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