@[email protected] to Programmer [email protected] • 2 months agoKB, MB, GB, and TB are all part of the metric system. What empirical measurements should we Free™️ Americans use for computer memory?message-square196fedilinkarrow-up1393arrow-down127
arrow-up1366arrow-down1message-squareKB, MB, GB, and TB are all part of the metric system. What empirical measurements should we Free™️ Americans use for computer memory?@[email protected] to Programmer [email protected] • 2 months agomessage-square196fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink16•2 months agoOther way round: prefixes that contain “bi” are binary, so 1024-based.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•2 months agoSomebody needs to make a satire piece on how the “woke mob” is ruining computers because these units of measurement are all bi.
minus-square@phoenixzlink-3•2 months agoBipolar is 1024 based? Jokes aside, you’re talking nonsense. 1024 based?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•2 months agoI think they mean “based off of chunks of 1024”, not “base 1024”.
Try KiB, MiB, GiB, TiB, those are metric, KB is not
Other way round: prefixes that contain “bi” are binary, so 1024-based.
Somebody needs to make a satire piece on how the “woke mob” is ruining computers because these units of measurement are all bi.
Bipolar is 1024 based?
Jokes aside, you’re talking nonsense. 1024 based?
I think they mean “based off of chunks of 1024”, not “base 1024”.