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BmeBenji (he/him)@lemm.ee to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

KB, MB, GB, and TB are all part of the metric system. What empirical measurements should we Free™️ Americans use for computer memory?

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KB, MB, GB, and TB are all part of the metric system. What empirical measurements should we Free™️ Americans use for computer memory?

BmeBenji (he/him)@lemm.ee to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago
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  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    Try KiB, MiB, GiB, TiB, those are metric, KB is not

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      Other way round: prefixes that contain “bi” are binary, so 1024-based.

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        Somebody needs to make a satire piece on how the “woke mob” is ruining computers because these units of measurement are all bi.

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        Bipolar is 1024 based?

        Jokes aside, you’re talking nonsense. 1024 based?

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          I think they mean “based off of chunks of 1024”, not “base 1024”.

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