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| tooki:
--- Quote from: james_s on October 02, 2021, 07:38:23 pm --- --- Quote from: tooki on October 02, 2021, 08:10:08 am ---You mean like the kibibyte, mebibyte, gibibyte, etc? Yeah, those caught on like wildfire! ;) --- End quote --- I refuse to use those silly fake units, they were invented by the storage industry in response to lawsuits over the practice of defining megabytes as 1000 bytes to make the drives appear larger than they really are. --- End quote --- Yeah I know the history. My comment was making fun of how literally nobody uses the new units. --- Quote from: james_s on October 02, 2021, 07:38:23 pm ---[snip rant] …I've seen it claimed to reduce ambiguity but in reality it created ambiguity where there was none before. A kilobyte used to be universally understood to be 1024 bytes but now a small portion of people insist it to be 1000 bytes because they think it's a metric unit. So now we have metric kilobytes used mostly by pedants in Europe and standard kilobytes used by the rest of the world, with most people being totally unaware that they are not the same thing. Great, much less confusing. :palm: --- End quote --- Have you ever seen anyone argue this, outside of storage vendors? |
| m98:
--- Quote from: james_s on October 02, 2021, 07:38:23 pm ---I refuse to use those silly fake units, they were invented by the storage industry in response to lawsuits over the practice of defining megabytes as 1000 bytes to make the drives appear larger than they really are. Kilobyte is not a metric unit, yes it borrows the "kilo" word as a prefix but in the context of base 2 systems it has always meant 1024. Microsoft (so ~90% of all PCs in the world) and JEDEC still define a kilobyte as 1024 bytes --- End quote --- Who cares about Microsoft or JEDEC? "Kilo" is a SI prefix that strictly refers to powers of 10. If you want powers of 2, use the IEC/ISO standard. There is no need to upkeep this artificial ambiguity. |
| magic:
--- Quote from: tooki on October 03, 2021, 10:10:25 am ---Have you ever seen anyone argue this, outside of storage vendors? --- End quote --- Yes, there is a whole thread about it somewhere. Indeed, we have just triggered one metric fanboy :D And not just storage vendors, certain OS that shall remain nameless also adopted those units years ago so that disks appear to have more capacity than on Windows ;) |
| tooki:
--- Quote from: magic on October 03, 2021, 11:18:06 am --- --- Quote from: tooki on October 03, 2021, 10:10:25 am ---Have you ever seen anyone argue this, outside of storage vendors? --- End quote --- Yes, there is a whole thread about it somewhere. Indeed, we have just triggered one metric fanboy :D And not just storage vendors, certain OS that shall remain nameless also adopted those units years ago so that disks appear to have more capacity than on Windows ;) --- End quote --- I thought it was simply to agree with the storage shown on the packaging. Silly either way. :/ |
| Echo88:
When not using a file structure, how do you then find the necessary files of interest for a certain topic/project? Lets say you want to design a digital resistance measurement bridge then usually the respective file folder on my pc would fill with relevant papers/manuals/appnotes, simulations, CAD-schematics/layouts, text documents for notes/change logs and pictures of scope traces or pcbs during the design. How is that managed by someone that doesnt understand/use file structures? Do they add tags for everything to make a searchfeature actually usable? |
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