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Re:Micron Introduces 128 GB DDR5-8000 RDIMMs with Monolithic... by ooterness on Monday November 13, 2023 @12:09PM (#38252463)
Linguistic drift IMHO. Formally, "dice" is the plural of "die". Less formally, "dice" are cubes with numbers on them and "die" is a completely separate word.
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Re:Micron Introduces 128 GB DDR5-8000 RDIMMs with Monolithic... by someone7x on Monday November 13, 2023 @03:41PM (#38255102)
I’ve heard “dice” for singles: you’ll need to roll one dice here.

I never asked, but I want to believe their internal representation of “1D6” is one-dice-six.

Sorta like reading “1 x 6” as “one _times_ six” instead of “one _time_ six”

Words are fun.

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