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Post #AxDR08hawUbIGyms3k by [email protected] |
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@NanoRaptor twelve kibidollars |
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Post #AxDRJhuIHAVAxd3dlA by [email protected] |
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@NanoRaptor I prefer to blame instead the marketing people that robbed us of 24… |
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Post #AxDRPsCEvtpobuOMlc by [email protected] |
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@NanoRaptor Just use kibibyte from now on, everyone will know what you mean /s |
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Post #AxDRUx3GJCox7Hc90S by [email protected] |
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@NanoRaptor I think it was from adding anvil weighing "hundred weights&quo… |
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Post #AxDSXKkrFg4lADhoY4 by [email protected] |
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@NanoRaptor ...it was less than 3% off at the time... |
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Post #AxDUZUi9PBbcWwb6IK by [email protected] |
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@NanoRaptor Related fact that bugs me: a kilobyte is 2^10 bytes, megabyte is 2^… |
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Post #AxDVlGxCTpR1IAohma by [email protected] |
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@NanoRaptor I've seen claims that the earliest appearance in print of kilob… |
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Post #AxDY99gZM3BtbmYOKu by [email protected] |
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@NanoRaptor @oneiros must have been an American |
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Post #AxDZpr5UTexqKl8RrE by [email protected] |
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@NanoRaptor I think there's only one fair and sensible solution to this ong… |
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Post #AxDZps3Osut1KZAIEq by [email protected] |
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@NanoRaptor To avoid any confusion with kilobyte and kibibyte, 1012 will be cal… |
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Post #AxDaSmzbdUc6vYwppg by [email protected] |
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@NanoRaptor RAM == 2xStorage == 10xDisk == HardDisc == FloppyNo idea why, possi… |
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Post #AxDdHX4qliBKFAj08u by [email protected] |
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@NanoRaptor Bitty Binarysan is to blame for that. |
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Post #AxDhDgjfJhyErBEpns by [email protected] |
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@NanoRaptor 1024, 1025, whatever it takes. |
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Post #AxDhx1EfwcQdT5MHGS by [email protected] |
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@NanoRaptor obviously a binary person ✔️ |
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Post #AxDiYe1ufhRoV6KWm0 by [email protected] |
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@NanoRaptor I would guess John von Neumann, or Claude Shannon, just on "ea… |
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Post #AxDiYe8eGepqpzTuGu by [email protected] |
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@mdhughes @NanoRaptor At least for old-style hard drives, there is no particula… |
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Post #AxDiZoa6vVaFW0sr4a by [email protected] |
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@bservies @NanoRaptor I used to think marketing/sales did this but I found they… |
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Post #AxDiZogUXmghpnrx1E by [email protected] |
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@GreenSkyOverMe @NanoRaptor then why did they first go to 1000 * 1024 instead o… |
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Post #AxDiklmffS541ayyQ4 by [email protected] |
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@pentupThat's already standardized as KELLY-BOOTLE STANDARD UNIT.https://xk… |
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Post #AxDiwwed4tFvDI1iCm by [email protected] |
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@bservies @NanoRaptor I tried to argue the same thing with my "marketing d… |
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Post #AxDiwwl0hAMNX50o9Q by [email protected] |
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@ryan @NanoRaptor next you'll be claiming a gigabyte isn't 2^20, but eq… |
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Post #AxDj5zk0yDtrORrQzA by [email protected] |
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@NanoRaptor I can't remember where I first saw it, but this was the most sp… |
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Post #AxDj6xrtQ3qvsG0Zay by [email protected] |
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@jamesh @NanoRaptor It was deliberately done to be misleading. Floppies were li… |
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Post #AxDkd2SjyObFLO6LiK by [email protected] |
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@NanoRaptor Pffft, I blame the ape with ten fingers who suggested it might mean… |
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Post #AxDm3tginw8Pu40nqa by [email protected] |
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@NanoRaptor It's believed to be Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz back in 1697. Her… |
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Post #AxDrimqVeDP8KIuIxE by [email protected] |
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@pentup @NanoRaptor Unfortunately, I think your fair compromise will suffer the… |
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Post #AxDu93MX3uQKzNXQFk by [email protected] |
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@simonzerafa @NanoRaptor 3.5″ HD floppy discs store 1457664 bytes, or 1.39MiB… |
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Post #AxDuFDwCejw1WdAIt6 by [email protected] |
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@pentup @NanoRaptor But surely it shpuld be a logarithmic compromise? |
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Post #AxDuIAdPOSdW9KmNV2 by [email protected] |
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@datarama @NanoRaptor Damn it. What about fixing the American 1,234.56 vs Europ… |
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Post #AxDuIAjn0jjyT7lTRg by [email protected] |
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@pentup @NanoRaptor Brilliant! If you will excuse me, I'm off to design a n… |
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Post #AxDuKTXg4C1JMyCJv6 by [email protected] |
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@mdhughes @NanoRaptor Your 360 kB floppy was 2 sides of 40 tracks of 9 sectors … |
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Post #AxDuOQrfxmakDwRFbc by [email protected] |
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@datarama @NanoRaptor Excellent. If I may make a small request, people should h… |
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@pentup @NanoRaptor Me and a friend of mine once designed a torture device for … |
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Post #AxDuTubonnvfvDdO5o by [email protected] |
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@pentup @NanoRaptor The best compromise leaves everyone unhappy. |
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Post #AxDuTuiCQ528F0cU2S by [email protected] |
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@kerfuffle @NanoRaptor Centrism: because at least nobody else is happy, either. |
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Post #AxDucqpSE40unwH6GG by [email protected] |
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@simonzerafa @NanoRaptor A disc can also be compact. |
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Post #AxDx70mPzamWGMMdVo by [email protected] |
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@pentup @NanoRaptor I suggest "quasikilo" for anything close to (but … |
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Post #AxDxBqqMMaBmtSW1J2 by [email protected] |
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@datarama @pentup @NanoRaptor I have bad news about texel sampling - someone he… |
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Post #AxDxC3EYISffJxvVgG by [email protected] |
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@flxtr @pentup @NanoRaptor damn, xkcd already thought about naming it baker'… |
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Post #AxDxCgD9NbisCuZRPU by [email protected] |
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@georgeharito @NanoRaptor blasphemy. They should have given the decimal version… |
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Post #AxDxCgJsyZ6uXniouO by [email protected] |
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@ShadowInTheVoid @NanoRaptor Blame Big Hard Drive. |
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Post #AxDxDnN8Ezhohqlt32 by [email protected] |
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@datarama @pentup @NanoRaptor = esolang where programs are rasterized vector im… |
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@georgeharito @NanoRaptor I frequently do.But i'm also still a user of spin… |
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Post #AxE1tpUf8wJrGUaoJU by [email protected] |
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@mdhughes @NanoRaptor in the real world, mega means million |
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Post #AxE20PlnBKRpVlkFeq by [email protected] |
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@datarama @pentup @NanoRaptor I think I can accept a “floor” in your argume… |
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Post #AxE2D4nMTb8WDxW5aa by [email protected] |
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@Keab42 @NanoRaptor Interestingly the OED's first citation is much later (1… |
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Post #AxE2HQOC8FR0M5onqa by [email protected] |
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@lonjil @NanoRaptor Computers are also part of the real world, the only part th… |
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Post #AxE3r1N0jIsz8gnnai by [email protected] |
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@mdhughes @jamesh @NanoRaptor This was especially true for 1.44MB floppies, rig… |
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Post #AxEjOPU0CDyVbI70nQ by [email protected] |
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@NanoRaptor To be fair, making up a word like "kibi" might have been … |
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@Keab42 @NanoRaptor I think both of that entry's citations are wrong:The IB… |
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@snowfox @NanoRaptor ah. Interesting. |
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@SofaFernsehFan I don't think we can blame him for discovering binary—we … |
