BmeBenji@lemm.ee to Programmer Humor · 2 months agoKB, MB, GB, and TB are all part of the metric system. What empirical measurements should we Free™️ Americans use for computer memory?message-squaremessage-square196fedilinkarrow-up1394arrow-down127
arrow-up1367arrow-down1message-squareKB, 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 · 2 months agomessage-square196fedilink
minus-squareMatombo@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up16·2 months agoM$ already fucked that up for everybody calling GiB GB.
minus-squareWes_Devlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 months agoCut 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.
M$ already fucked that up for everybody calling GiB GB.
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.