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BmeBenji@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@lemm.ee to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago
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    I think they mean “based off of chunks of 1024”, not “base 1024”.

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