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   Greg Wilson (gvwilson@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Feb-2024 21:58:32 JST Greg Wilson

   Looking for a word to use in contrast to "exascale" to mean "the laptop-sized computing that is all 99.9% of researchers need". Thought about "human-scale" but that doesn't have enough zing. Suggestions?

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 19-Feb-2024 21:58:32 JST clacke

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     @gvwilson Personal scale? That's what personal computers were made for.
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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 19-Feb-2024 21:58:35 JST clacke

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     @gvwilson I quite like human scale though.
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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 12:26:39 JST Ben Zanin

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     @gvwilson I know it has accumulated enough overloaded meaning and marketing to be unsuitable for the purpose now but I really wish "personal computing" could be the right label for this concept.

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