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2025-12-20 14:19 UTC
@joomy@functional.cafe Interestingly enough, in Russian computer slang "meter" is a megabyte. And software "weighs" (also in slang). So, there used to be a joke: "How to make a physics teacher crazy? Ask them to solve this problem: A piece of software weighs 2 meters. What time is needed to pass it through a 56 kbps channel?"
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@frankboon@pol.social 2025-12-21 08:50
@menelion@dragonscave.space @joomy@functional.cafe In Polish we also use the term of weight towards bytes. When I was a teen in modem era, the term ciężko przepchnąć ( hard to push ) was also commonly used to describe the relation between the weight of the upload and the channel speed when sending big files.