You can even hear it in the video, link added…

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    You can’t use the word “computing”, it’s a gerund that represents an ongoing activity, it can’t be unitized into finite units. “Processing power” is not a noun, it’s a phrase.

    Compute is not a boardroom term, it’s an engineering term. It’s used by professionals because it’s efficient, practical, and makes the most sense linguistically in the context it’s used. It may be inelegant, but it’s a function term for an ugly, unnatural thing, it’s not supposed to sound pretty.

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      20 hours ago

      Measure it in energy use like we already did. It’s a dumb term techbros use to get investor dicks hard.

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        Energy use is the not the thing being sold, and never was.

        It’s an engineering term that engineers use to easily and efficiently describe the thing being built and sold. It’s not for the benefit of investors, it’s for the benefit of other engineers so they can easily describe the thing being talked about.

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            18 hours ago

            All words are made up.

            It’s an accurate and useful word for describing something that previously did not have a word. Pretty simple stuff.

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                No, it didn’t, that’s why compute is used now. Compute is a mass noun, shortened from Computation, also a mass noun and it’s a perfectly reasonable and accurate word. Also compute is not an adjective in any context, you’re thinking of a verb.

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                  16 hours ago

                  Ok so you apparently never took grammar so arguing with you is like playing chess with a pigeon. You’re just kinda strutting around the board, knocking over the pieces and shitting all over the place thinking you’re winning.

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                    15 hours ago

                    You’re projecting. In this conversation you have so far:

                    • Tried to unitize a gerund without adding a measure word
                    • Mistaken phrases for words
                    • Confused adjectives and nouns
                    • Ignored the validity of mass nouns as a whole

                    I don’t think you have even a conceptual understand of Grammar, and I suspect you only know English as a second language

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        It’s absolutely in the dictionary, it’s perfectly plain and inoffensive, and it sounds perfectly descriptive of what it is.

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          2 days ago

          I tolerated the use of literally literally meaning figuratively but I draw the line at compute as a noun.

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            21 hours ago

            I would love to hear a better noun representing comodified computer processing as differentiated from storage, or network bandwidth/throughput.

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              20 hours ago

              Commodified computer processing sounds fine. Measure it in kw/h or other unit of energy use. Like we already did before techbros started using it at investors.