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I'm a software developer of 3 years and I don't understand why sending a 15MB screenshot as an email attachment is a bad idea? I agree that intuitive notions o
by dickjocke 7y ago
I'm a software developer of 3 years and I don't understand why sending a 15MB screenshot as an email attachment is a bad idea?
I agree that intuitive notions of size are tricky. I try to lookup those comparisons about how large the works of Shakespeare or a Tale of Two Cities would be, but it never ever seems to stick. I'm able to remember that movies are roughly 1GB because it's easy and I encounter it a lot as a discrete unit. But yea, songs, text messages, single images, I really struggle with.
- userbinator 7y agoIn that case it was a 15MB uncompressed BMP of a desktop when the student only needed to attach the files and error messages he was experiencing. But yea, songs, text messages, single images, I really struggle with. Those would be MB, <1KB, and KB-MB, respectively. 1MB of text is a lot. In comparison, your comment is 506 bytes, or just slightly smaller than a disk sector (512B). That comment repeated 2000 times would be ~1MB.
- dickjocke 7y agovery groovy thanks for those data points. edit: so I think ive settled on a good rule of thumb: movie: ~3GB song: ~3MB page of text: ~3KB
- mopsi 7y ago10 MB is the largest email attachment that's universally accepted. 15 MB screenshot might not even get delivered. 15 MB is also absurdly wasteful. It would probably be <1 MB in a compressed format like JPG or PNG.