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Re: 24x7 vs 24x7x365 Re: Constant Abuse Reports / Borderline Spamming from RiskIQ
From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org>
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 21:08:52 -0400
(since it's Friday and we're all stressed) I can't believe that out of everything I wrote that we're going to discuss the semantics of this, but then again: yes I can. I should have known. I should have known. I. Should. Have. Known. *bangs head on desk* *reaches for scotch* Alrighty then: 24x7 means every hour of the week, as in "24 by 7". 24x365 means every hour of the year. (modulo those with 366 days but please let's not go there because this is bad enough) (oh wait, too late, someone upthread already went there) (and then leap seconds reared their ugly head, oh good grief) 24x7x365 thus means every hour of 7 years. YES, I know, I know. 60x24x7...no. NO. I will not go there. Nor will you. Just stop. I swear I will turn this car around *right now*. Yeah, I know it's in common use. Like any number of other things in common use (e.g., "going forward" -- really? like there's another direction to go?) it's...annoying. I suspect that someone who just wasn't thinking started this in an attempt to out-promote people who merely said 24x7 or 24x365, and it propagated outwards. If that hypothesis is correct and there is thus a patient 0 for this epidemic, I very much want to find them and pummel them with a bag of Oxford commas. ----rsk
Current thread:
- Re: Constant Abuse Reports / Borderline Spamming from RiskIQ, (continued)
- Re: Constant Abuse Reports / Borderline Spamming from RiskIQ Rich Kulawiec (Apr 15)
- 24x7 vs 24x7x365 Re: Constant Abuse Reports / Borderline Spamming from RiskIQ Ben Cannon (Apr 15)
- Re: 24x7 vs 24x7x365 Re: Constant Abuse Reports / Borderline Spamming from RiskIQ Mike Hale (Apr 16)
- Re: 24x7 vs 24x7x365 Re: Constant Abuse Reports / Borderline Spamming from RiskIQ Owen DeLong (Apr 16)
- Re: 24x7 vs 24x7x365 Re: Constant Abuse Reports / Borderline Spamming from RiskIQ Forrest Christian (List Account) (Apr 16)
- Re: 24x7 vs 24x7x365 Re: Constant Abuse Reports / Borderline Spamming from RiskIQ Ben Cannon (Apr 16)
- Re: Language evolution (was 24x7 vs 24x7x365 Re: Constant Abuse Reports / Borderline Spamming from RiskIQ) Bryan Fields (Apr 16)
- Re: Language evolution (was 24x7 vs 24x7x365 Re: Constant Abuse Reports / Borderline Spamming from RiskIQ) Mike Hale (Apr 16)
- Re: 24x7 vs 24x7x365 Re: Constant Abuse Reports / Borderline Spamming from RiskIQ William Herrin (Apr 16)
- Re: 24x7 vs 24x7x365 Re: Constant Abuse Reports / Borderline Spamming from RiskIQ Valdis Klētnieks (Apr 16)
- Re: 24x7 vs 24x7x365 Re: Constant Abuse Reports / Borderline Spamming from RiskIQ Rich Kulawiec (Apr 17)
- Re: 24x7 vs 24x7x365 Re: Constant Abuse Reports / Borderline Spamming from RiskIQ William Herrin (Apr 17)
- Re: 24x7 vs 24x7x365 Re: Constant Abuse Reports / Borderline Spamming from RiskIQ Ben Cannon (Apr 17)
- Re: 24x7 vs 24x7x365 Re: Constant Abuse Reports / Borderline Spamming from RiskIQ Carsten Bormann (Apr 17)
- Re: Constant Abuse Reports / Borderline Spamming from RiskIQ Ben Cannon (Apr 15)