@[email protected] to Programmer [email protected] • 1 year 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-up1395
arrow-up1395message-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] • 1 year agomessage-square196fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink18•1 year agoOther way round: prefixes that contain “bi” are binary, so 1024-based.
minus-squarePhoenixzlinkfedilink1•1 year agoBipolar is 1024 based? Jokes aside, you’re talking nonsense. 1024 based?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•1 year agoI think they mean “based off of chunks of 1024”, not “base 1024”.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•1 year agoSomebody needs to make a satire piece on how the “woke mob” is ruining computers because these units of measurement are all bi.
Try KiB, MiB, GiB, TiB, those are metric, KB is not
Other way round: prefixes that contain “bi” are binary, so 1024-based.
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”.
Somebody needs to make a satire piece on how the “woke mob” is ruining computers because these units of measurement are all bi.