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chrisweekly 18 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 ...

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.

linguistbreaker 18 days ago [–]

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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