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> leaked 1.1 TiB (1.2 TB) I don't know why but I find this funny.
by postepowanieadm 2y ago
> leaked 1.1 TiB (1.2 TB)
I don't know why but I find this funny.
- Jerrrrry 2y ago[dead]
- Jerrrrrrry 2y agoWould you rather have three fingers and a thumb or seven fingers and a thumb? 70 million year old evolutionary technical debt rearing its head, yet again.
- Jerrrrrrry 2y ago(humans have a number of fingers that isnt a base of two)
- latentsea 2y agoExcept a subset of humans who have been involved in industrial accidents.
- fmj 2y agoDon't forget about birth defects. I went to school with a kid that was born without pinkies, but otherwise completely normal looking hands. You could still tell something was off when you looked at his hands, but it usually took a few seconds for it to register with most people.
- Jerrrrrrry 2y agoHe was an exemption, not an exception.
- latentsea 2y agoAI maybe.
- userbinator 2y agoYou can count to 1023 on them. Although some numbers might be a bit awkward to use.
- Jerrrrrrry 2y agoyou can double that with every physical property you care to add. fingers arent innately binary, you can curl them and point them. wrist orientation relative to the hand and at that point you can count up to 2048 without resorting to too much more than a set of two rules (past instinctual counting)
- robxorb 2y agoPerhaps one day, we can return to the days when a KB was a KB and a MB was a MB. Those grand old days, when we all accepted kilo and mega stretch a little more for computers. Because in binary, base10 metric is a wee bit of a shoehorn. Just a bit.
- SoftTalker 2y agoIt all changed when "normal people" started using computers. 1 KB = 1024 bytes makes perfect sense except to 98% of the world.
- ssl-3 2y ago98% of the world doesn't even know that details like this exist. They never have the opportunity to question the sensibility of one or the other.
- TheCleric 2y agoI think it’s also the SI standards pedants who can’t imagine a kilogram might be a different context than a kilobyte.
- croes 2y agoQuick, how many gibibyte are 1234567890 byte?
- ffsm8 2y agoQuick, how many blocks will 4096 bytes use on my storage device? The argument is that the base10 interval makes no sense with computers, because they're physically base2. You can't really have 10 without wasting 2, and that's why it made sense to use 1024 instead of 1000. Personally I feel the pushback against gibi/mibi/kibi overblown. It's ultimately better to be coherent everywhere and always specify everything with decimals/rounded over random context dependent decisions. But still, the original argument for 1024 made sense too.
- fhars 2y agoYeah, the innumeracy is strong in that one.
- Tokkemon 2y agoAlex has us covered: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCTWyNstpD0&t=55s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCTWyNstpD0&t=55s
- qup 2y agoThe built in video player on Reddit will say 2:21 in the preview, then the video will be 2:22 long
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