<story><title>Quixotic Californian crusade to officially recognize the hellabyte</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/14/hellabyte_si_prefix/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>edoceo</author><text>This is a problem for me. I&amp;#x27;m from east-bay. Every thing that&amp;#x27;s hella stuff is hella stuff, so I&amp;#x27;ve been calling various amounts of hella data as hella-bytes (or my fast internet give me hella-BPS). A big cultural shift for it to mean a precise amount.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s like aksing some New Englander to define what &amp;quot;a wicked lotta&amp;quot; is...it&amp;#x27;s hella! Oh! Why didn&amp;#x27;t you say so?</text></comment>
<story><title>Quixotic Californian crusade to officially recognize the hellabyte</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/14/hellabyte_si_prefix/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>_5659</author><text>For the uninitiated, hella is flexible as a quantifier and intensifier. Hella has hella meanings for hella words.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Hella&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Hella&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Honestly, being from the Bay Area, I&amp;#x27;m against pegging hella to a specific size. It feels more appropriate for cases where you don&amp;#x27;t know how many, but &amp;#x27;a lot&amp;#x27; feels insufficient.</text></comment>