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Re:Gnome has moved to GitLab by bytematic on Thursday May 31, 2018 @03:46PM (#17199508)
I would have used "umpteen", sounds large, but it's only in the teens.
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Re:Gnome has moved to GitLab by Hupriene on Thursday May 31, 2018 @05:19PM (#17200389)
Yeah, but that's teens in a base-ump number system.
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Re:Gnome has moved to GitLab by taneq on Thursday May 31, 2018 @07:51PM (#17201352)
I realized a while ago that any hyperbolic ('eleventy billion' style, not counting cases where the actual value counts) number only needs to be about 10x the expected value to sound large. Further orders of magnitude don't seem to add any extra emotional impact after that.
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Re:Gnome has moved to GitLab by mygo on Thursday May 31, 2018 @05:12PM (#17200328)
that’s not true.
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