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mc32
5mo ago
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Yes but that was like 40 years ago. I think by now the phraseology should reflect reality after about forty years.
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theandrewbailey
5mo ago
We still talk about "bugs" (99+% of computer defects in the past 70+ years have not been caused by insects) and "AJAX" (long after most of these requests use JSON instead of XML).
jacquesm
5mo ago
How many horsepower does your car have?
arcanemachiner
5mo ago
Ironically, I only started hearing the term being used in the past decade, as a colloquial alternative to solid-state storage.
seanhandley
5mo ago
“Phraseology” is subtly different.
You mean “vocabulary”, “terminology”, possibly “nomenclature”.
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