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Re:Decreasing Gitlab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 m... by chrisweekly on Friday June 06, 2025 @01:00PM (#44202847)
I'm not the OP you're responding to, but to be fair, in a sentence about big-O perf characteristics, which includes the word "algorithms", using "exponentially" in a colloquial non-technical sense is an absolutely terrible word choice.
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Re:Decreasing Gitlab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 m... by linguistbreaker on Friday June 06, 2025 @01:14PM (#44202970)
Exponentially bad word choice even... since we're using that word however we want now?

I don't think this is meaningless or non-constructive pedantry - we're a technical community and those are technical words.

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