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You're angry because they properly measure base 2 data? Even if you disagree on how proper it is, that seems like an extremely small and unimportant qualm.
by ybx 11y ago
You're angry because they properly measure base 2 data?
Even if you disagree on how proper it is, that seems like an extremely small and unimportant qualm.
- zeveb 11y ago> Even if you disagree on how proper it is, that seems like an extremely small and unimportant qualm. Use of 'kibibytes' and 'KiB' reflects a fundamentally wrongheaded view of the world, either unserious or too-serious, which shouldn't be taken seriously.
- recursive 11y agoWrongheaded view of the world? When doing science, is it inappropriate to distinguish between the numbers 1000 and 1024?
- zeveb 11y ago> When doing science, is it inappropriate to distinguish between the numbers 1000 and 1024? Of course not! In computers, 'kilo-' means 1,024; everywhere else it means 1,000. This is a simple rule; network-device and hard-drive manufacturers are just wrong when they violate it.
- ybx 11y agoThis is actually incorrect. "kilo-" always means 1000, and computers are not given some exception. 1024 is a KiB, 1000 is a KB.
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