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To clear up any confusion, let's compromise at a 1012-byte kilobyte.
Perhaps we can simplify this compromise and have a kilobyte as 1024 bytes, a megabyte as 1024000 bytes, a gigabyte as 1048576000 bytes and a terabyte as 1048576000000 bytes.
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Agreed. Metric is stupid. The ancient Sumerians used multiples of 60, as we continue to do for time and angles (which are related) today. It makes perfect sense. 60 is divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, which makes it easy to use in calculations. Even the metric people are not so crazy as to propose replacing these with powers of 10. Same with pounds, for example. A pound is 16 ounces, which can be divided 4 times witho…
> Same with pounds, for example. A pound is 16 ounces, which can be divided 4 times without involving any fractions. Try that with metric. Not sure if you're actually serious... 1 kg is 1000 g, dividing with 4 gets you 250 g, no fractions. And no need to remember arbitrary names or numbers for conversions. > Then there's temperature. Fahrenheit just works more naturally over the human-scale temperature range without…
Whereas in C, 0 is fine and 100 means you died 50 degrees ago.
However, C is much more useful in industry, where boiling and freezing points are more important.
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Human history is full of cases where silly mistakes became precedent. HTTP "referal" is just another example. I wonder if there's a wikipedia article listing these...
It's "referer" in the HTTP standard, but "referrer" when correctly spelled in English. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer
I automatically assume that people that use KB=1000B want to sell me something (and provide less than promised), so should be aggressively ignored or removed from vicinities KB is 1024 bytes, and don't you dare try stealing those 24 bytes from me
You think the people selling RAM are somehow more virtuous than the people selling hard disks? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_price_fixing_scandal
And a megabyte is depending on the context precisely 1000x1000=1,000,000 or 1024x1024=1,048,576 bytes*, except when you're talking about the classic 3.5 inch floppy disks, where "1.44 MB" stands for 1440x1024 bytes, or about 1.47 true MB or 1.41 MiB. * Yeah, I read the article. Regardless of the IEC's noble attempt, in all my years of working with people and computers I've never heard anyone actually pronounce MiB (o…
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Maybe after society has collapsed and been rebuilt we'll end up with km and cm having a weird ratio to the meter. Same for kg. At least celsius is just about impossible to screw up.
Celsius is already screwed up because it's not zero-based.
And a megabyte is depending on the context precisely 1000x1000=1,000,000 or 1024x1024=1,048,576 bytes*, except when you're talking about the classic 3.5 inch floppy disks, where "1.44 MB" stands for 1440x1024 bytes, or about 1.47 true MB or 1.41 MiB. * Yeah, I read the article. Regardless of the IEC's noble attempt, in all my years of working with people and computers I've never heard anyone actually pronounce MiB (o…
> I've never heard It doesn't matter. "kilo" means 1000. People are free to use it wrong if they wish.
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Thinking about it a bit, I think I'd have 1. defined traditional suffixes and abbreviations to mean powers of two, not ten, aligning with most existing usages, but... 2. deprecated their use, especially in formal settings... 3. defined new spelled-out vocabulary for both pow10 and pow2 units, e.g. in English "two megabytes" becomes "two binary megabytes" or "two decimal megabytes", and... 4. defined new unambiguous a…
That’s basically what Kibi et al is though. It’s Ki(lo) bi(nary) — kibi. Yeah it sounds dumb, but it’s really not that different from your suggestion.
nice to see the battlefield again, just as I remembered it
The mistake was using the "Kibi" prefix. "Kibibyte" just sounds a bit silly when said out loud.
Yes, 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.