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If that irritates you, please don't check the grammar and errant placement of commas! All jokes aside. Fixed, thanks.

by pavehawk2007 6y ago

a1369209993 6y ago
Actually, the grammar seems fine? Or at least I haven't noticed any problems with it. TFA as a whole seems pretty good actually. The file sizes are still incorrect, though; it calls the units kilobytes now, but it still claims there's 262 of them. The seven blocks at the start would make it 263 KB, but I don't think that what you meant.
- Arnavion 6y ago
  >The file sizes are still incorrect, though; it calls the units kilobytes now, but it still claims there's 262 of them. 1024 * 1024 / 4 B = 262144 B = 262.144 KB = 256 KiB
  - a1369209993 6y ago
    Yes, exactly; 262144 bytes is 256 kilobytes.
    - Arnavion 6y ago
      KB is kilobyte. KiB is kibibyte.
      - Koshkin 6y ago
        > kibibyte I wonder if anyone uses this abomination of a word in real life though.
        a1369209993 6y ago
        Not that I know of; they're called kilobytes.
      - a1369209993 6y ago
        Yes, KB = kilobyte = 1024 byte.
        Arnavion 6y ago
        At this point I can only assume I'm being trolled.
        kbenson 6y ago
        This whole thread is confusing to me as well. Isn't the whole point of a kibibyte to work in increments of 1024, unlike kilo, which is actually 1000, as defined by the sciences long ago? So 1024 * 256 is 256 KiB by definition, since a Kibibyte is literally 1024 bytes, and the number of Kilobytes will by higher, since the number it represents is smaller.
        GolDDranks 6y ago
        Either user a1369209993 is unaware of the distinction ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibyte https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibyte ) or then they are deliberately ignoring it (My guess: to defend the old definition of kilobyte = 1024 bytes) to the point that their messages look like trolling.
        Thiez 6y ago
        Reality will forcibly catch up with them when they try to buy a new harddrive.
        pavehawk2007 6y ago
        That's what I thought. I really only care about how much "stuff" I can store in a block, which is 1,024 bytes. If that's 1KiB or 1.024KBs, the distinction isn't worth that much brainpower.
    - GolDDranks 6y ago
      262144 bytes; 262144 / 1024 = 256 kibibytes 262144 bytes; 262144 / 1000 ≈ 262 kilobytes

If that irritates you, please don't check the grammar and errant placement of commas! All jokes aside. Fixed, thanks.

a1369209993 6y ago

Actually, the grammar seems fine? Or at least I haven't noticed any problems with it. TFA as a whole seems pretty good actually. The file sizes are still incorrect, though; it calls the units kilobytes now, but it still claims there's 262 of them. The seven blocks at the start would make it 263 KB, but I don't think that what you meant.

Arnavion 6y ago
>The file sizes are still incorrect, though; it calls the units kilobytes now, but it still claims there's 262 of them. 1024 * 1024 / 4 B = 262144 B = 262.144 KB = 256 KiB
- a1369209993 6y ago
  Yes, exactly; 262144 bytes is 256 kilobytes.
  - Arnavion 6y ago
    KB is kilobyte. KiB is kibibyte.
    - Koshkin 6y ago
      > kibibyte I wonder if anyone uses this abomination of a word in real life though.
      - a1369209993 6y ago
        Not that I know of; they're called kilobytes.
    - a1369209993 6y ago
      Yes, KB = kilobyte = 1024 byte.
      - Arnavion 6y ago
        At this point I can only assume I'm being trolled.
        kbenson 6y ago
        This whole thread is confusing to me as well. Isn't the whole point of a kibibyte to work in increments of 1024, unlike kilo, which is actually 1000, as defined by the sciences long ago? So 1024 * 256 is 256 KiB by definition, since a Kibibyte is literally 1024 bytes, and the number of Kilobytes will by higher, since the number it represents is smaller.
        GolDDranks 6y ago
        Either user a1369209993 is unaware of the distinction ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibyte https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibyte ) or then they are deliberately ignoring it (My guess: to defend the old definition of kilobyte = 1024 bytes) to the point that their messages look like trolling.
        Thiez 6y ago
        Reality will forcibly catch up with them when they try to buy a new harddrive.
        pavehawk2007 6y ago
        That's what I thought. I really only care about how much "stuff" I can store in a block, which is 1,024 bytes. If that's 1KiB or 1.024KBs, the distinction isn't worth that much brainpower.
  - GolDDranks 6y ago
    262144 bytes; 262144 / 1024 = 256 kibibytes 262144 bytes; 262144 / 1000 ≈ 262 kilobytes