rem’s avatarrem’s Twitter Archive—№ 69,074

  1. In case you thought naming things in computing was hard, here's a list of names for the smallest bits (📢 PUN ALERT) in computing: catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/N/nybble.html (and more en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Units_of_information#Obsolete_and_unusual_units - bentobox?!) My favourite: chawmp—because who the feck knows how to pronounce that!