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benderbeerman ,

Imperial, obviously: F(reedom)T(ons) and fractions thereof. 1FT is the amount of data that it takes to store the entire King James edition of the New Testament and the Bill of Rights as a PDF.

Adalast ,

We can use bits instead of bytes. That way it can look 8x bigger than it really is and have no real bearing to modern computing.

John_McMurray ,

No, those are not metric, they just borrowed some prefixes, although it’s not like metric designers invented those anyways.

jimbolauski , (edited )

Power of Two

1GB is 29.8975 pots

1MB is 19.9315 pots

Matombo ,

M$ already fucked that up for everybody calling GiB GB.

Wes_Dev ,

Cut to a younger me looking at HDDs in Walmart, and wondering why the fuck they were using much higher numbers than what the drive actually had. That’s when I learned the difference, and started grow my hate for advertising bullshit.

TheOakTree ,

We should measure size of files/storage as a function of how many standardized png’s of an american flag would fit in the same amount of space.

Buttons ,
@Buttons@programming.dev avatar

We should measure size of files/storage as a function of how many standardized png’s of an american flag would fit in the same amount of space.

Fix it, I will not be oppressed by your standards

TheOakTree ,

Surely it would be a standardized png determined by each state legislation so… of varying sizes.

Adalast ,

It would be of the state flags, with resolution and compression determined by the state supreme courts obviously.

mojo_raisin ,

digital freedom units

PanoptiDon ,

In America, you need a monthly subscription to use that system

TheAnonymouseJoker ,
@TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml avatar

In America, everything is right.

waz ,

I know you asked about memory, but the computer I just assembled had a 750watt power supply. As an American I think we should refer to it as a “one horsepower power supply” instead.

BmeBenji OP ,

That’s not bad, but is there a digital equivalent of a horse we could use?

TomAwsm , (edited )

Nyan cats

uis ,

One hor… Bwahahaha!

https://derpicdn.net/img/view/2012/10/10/118398.gif

lseif ,

char, short, int, long, long long

tetris11 ,
@tetris11@lemmy.ml avatar

unsigned long long and minus unsigned long long

derpgon ,

I didn’t do C++ for over 5 years. Does minus unsigned really give you one bit of data extra?

sparky ,
@sparky@lemmy.federate.cc avatar

Are we assuming we’re allowed to use defines and templates? 😏

derpgon ,

B-b-but those are cheating 😒

phoenixz ,

Try KiB, MiB, GiB, TiB, those are metric, KB is not

Username ,

Other way round: prefixes that contain “bi” are binary, so 1024-based.

phoenixz ,

Bipolar is 1024 based?

Jokes aside, you’re talking nonsense. 1024 based?

TheOakTree ,

I think they mean “based off of chunks of 1024”, not “base 1024”.

TheGalacticVoid ,

Somebody needs to make a satire piece on how the “woke mob” is ruining computers because these units of measurement are all bi.

andrewth09 , (edited )

My CPU is running at 2.6 Triple thou cycles per imperial second (TTiS)

ikidd , (edited )
@ikidd@lemmy.world avatar

Don’t you mean Triple Imperial Thousand Seconds?

the_crotch ,

1 kB is 1024 bytes and a byte is 8 bits. That is not metric. It just uses metric prefixes.

lseif ,

1kB = 1000 bytes, 1KiB = 1024 bytes

konalt ,
@konalt@lemmy.world avatar

Don’t forget the baker’s kilobyte.

Matombo ,

1kB is 1000B you are using KiB which Windows to this day calls KB -.-

Sibbo ,

Linux kernel guilty as well. It reports memory in “kb”, but digging through documentation, you will at some point see that they actually mean KiB. The “kb” would be 1000 bits.

Ookami38 ,

Mp3s, standard def movies, HD movies, and 4k movies.

joelfromaus ,
@joelfromaus@aussie.zone avatar

I’ve seen so many products advertised by how many “songs” or “movies” it can hold. Never mind you can encode the same movie to be massive or small. So I think we’ve found the right answer!

cupcakezealot ,
@cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

my harddrive is 250 toby keiths and my processer is 500 lee greenwoods

picard ,
@picard@nrw.social avatar

@cupcakezealot @BmeBenji why not 100 trumps processor rate.

cupcakezealot ,
@cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

i dunno that much seems almost criminal

picard ,
@picard@nrw.social avatar

@cupcakezealot yeah but I'd love to hear about megatrumps. but that could also be a measure for mass destruction

Fenrisulfir ,

Because trump’s processor doesn’t have an IPC. It uses CPI instead and w’d have to start using scientific notation

Andrew15_5 ,

IEC

uis ,

C13

Andrew15_5 ,

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IEC_60320_plugs.jpg?

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