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Minor nitpick: I'd prefer to see size denoted as 12kB (or 12 KB) rather than 12kb, where I have to wonder whether it means kilobit or kilobyte. Note that Justin
by tromp 4y ago
Minor nitpick: I'd prefer to see size denoted as 12kB (or 12 KB) rather than 12kb, where I have to wonder whether it means kilobit or kilobyte. Note that Justine has also worked on languages whose programs consists of bits [1].
[1] https://justine.lol/lambda/ https://justine.lol/lambda/
- remram 4y agoAlso if I read "kb executable", I assume one kb. Just like when I read "backpack computer", I assume it fits in one backpack. It's 12 kB, aka 96 kb. The HN submission's title is not even the article's title, which is "How Fat Does a Fat Binary Need To Be?"
- ThePadawan 4y agoAs pointed out in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32649569 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32649569 , this is probably HN autoremoving numbers from the start of titles to combat blog spam titles like "12 reasons to switch to XYZ".
- titzer 4y agoThat bit-encoded lambda calculus is nuts!
- shrimp_emoji 4y agoIf you get a scientific education, the importance of clearly noting your units is drilled into you. Programmers with their non-STEM laxity smh :p
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- jart 4y agoAs you wish. kB for kibibytes.
- laumars 4y agoThat’s more likely HN reformatting titles. HN auto-title cases submissions titles and removes any numbers prefixing the title string. So “7 KB” would be changed to “Kb”.
- pmarreck 4y ago> In 383 bytes we've managed to achieve garbage collection, lazy lists, and tail recursion. wat