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The mistake was using the "Kibi" prefix. "Kibibyte" just sounds a bit silly when said out loud.
by cmovq 8mo ago
The mistake was using the "Kibi" prefix. "Kibibyte" just sounds a bit silly when said out loud.
- robobro 8mo agoDoes it really matter if it sounds silly?
- Blackthorn 8mo agoConsidering it meant people didn't use it, yes.
- Symbiote 8mo ago"Giga" was considered to sound silly until it became common and we no longer care. "Yotta" sounds silly (to me) now.
- sippeangelo 8mo ago"Tera" always sounded cool though.
- bombcar 8mo agoSurely you mean Gibi ;)
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- aidenn0 8mo ago1.21 Gigawatts doesn't sound silly at all!
- NetMageSCW 8mo agoDid you mean jigawatts?
- bloppe 8mo agoActually, it sounds very serious and appropriate.
- bombcar 8mo agoStudio Kibi
- j2kun 8mo agoWhen I read "KiB" I say "kib" and it's fine. Similar for GiB, TiB, PiB. "I bought a two tib SSD." "I just want to serve five pibs."
- fsckboy 8mo ago>"I bought a two tib SSD." no you didn't, that doesn't exist, you bought 2 trillion bytes, 99 billion bytes short
- jihadjihad 8mo ago"mebi" and "gibi" aren't any better, last one in particular if you say it as "jibby-bytes"
- kstrauser 8mo agoYes, 2**10 times this, yes. Call me calcitrant, reactionary, or whatever, but I will not say kibibyte out loud. It's a dumb word and I'm not using it. It was a horrible choice.
- ralferoo 8mo agoThey should call their stupid SI power-of-10 units kisibyte instead.
- nacozarina 8mo agoyou'll eat your kibbles & bits and like it !
- mmphosis 8mo agoThe Commdore 64 has 64 kibibytes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#Multiple-byte_units https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#Multiple-byte_units "the C64 took its name from its 64 kilobytes (65,536 bytes) of RAM" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64
- kstrauser 8mo agoIt has 64 kilobytes. The definition of kilobyte and megabyte (and I presume gigabyte, among people who could afford caring about them) were universally agreed to be binary.
- cestith 8mo agoI usually just say kilobyte when speaking, and say “binary kilobyte” or “decimal kilobyte” if it’s not clear from context. I still (usually, but I forget) use the IEC symbols when I mean binary and the SI symbols when I mean decimal. The extra ‘i’ doesn’t cost that much.