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You're not disagreeing. Parent is talking about the measurement units changing, whereas you're saying the meaning of the SI prefixes shouldn't change. You can h
by dataflow 6y ago
You're not disagreeing. Parent is talking about the measurement units changing, whereas you're saying the meaning of the SI prefixes shouldn't change. You can have both: require KiB, MiB, etc.
- iab 6y agoHow about micro-inches, or kilo-furlongs. Let's get chaotic in here.
- dataflow 6y agoYour proposal lacks what is commonly called a "motivation".
- mattashii 6y agoI'd be all for that. Please standardize your measurements to one unit, and use constant logarithmically incrementing indicators for larger amounts of these units. Better yet: do not base them on (or name them after) a unit that differs for each person (why does my foot measure 0'11"?)
- ColFrancis 6y ago> constant logarithmically incrementing indicators Exponentially increasing? 10^3, 10^6, 10^9, 10^12 (I kind of hate being that guy, but I mean it in a positive and helpful sense)
- beervirus 6y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5-s-4KPtD8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5-s-4KPtD8
- iab 6y agoReally vibe with this
- BenjiWiebe 6y agoKilofeet are a thing.
- iab 6y agoPleasing to say, if nothing else
- pmw 6y agoGood point, I see I may have misunderstood the parent. Thanks.
- pseudalopex 6y agoUsing MB and MiB is more consistent than using 2 meanings of MB. But it's less consistent than using SI units for everything.
- dataflow 6y agoIronically, "consistency" is ambiguous here. Using MiB avoids confusion, misuse, and ambiguity. Uniformity (what you're also calling "consistency"), if it's even warranted here, would be far lower priority and could wait.
- philwelch 6y agoThe problem is that “kibibyte”, “mebibyte”, “gibibyte”, etc. are extremely ugly words whose existence is fundamentally offensive. If you heard anyone say them aloud you’d think they were a toddler with a speech impediment.
- protomyth 6y agoI'm sure they were picked specifically because they sound bad. Using only the the first letter would probably work for the US (e.g. kbytes) since it wouldn't step on SI's toes.
- jbverschoor 6y agoLooks like me-bit-byte But yeah, phonetically they pretty much suck
- sep_field 6y agoSorry, but you're wrong. They are adorably cute words and I named my cat kibibyte.
- LocalH 6y agoI always thought it should just have been "binary/decimal kilobyte" etc which would have neatly sidestepped the awkwardness of saying those words out loud and would have also likely satisfied most people who preferred using the traditional-within-computing binary meanings. In theory that would be universally applicable to any units and any base. Instead we have this ugly linguistic hack.