Agent641@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 4 days agoDid you check inside the box?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square77linkfedilinkarrow-up1266arrow-down122
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minus-squareBitUnWise@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·4 days agoI want to agree with you, but the war is lost. Giga is billion and Gibi is 2^30
minus-squareOlmai@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·3 days agoI want to agree with you two, because I hate competing standards, but you gotta admit gigabyte was a poor choice from the start because it took the SI prefix and made it mean something else. Creating Gibi is just correcting that mistake
minus-squareSpaghettiMaster@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up5·3 days agoAgreed, metric prefixes should always remain consistent. Computers can read both though, so why doesn’t windows?
minus-squaresp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 days agoI propose a new standard. Ghibli[byte/bit]s. … no I will not expand or further clarify.
I want to agree with you, but the war is lost. Giga is billion and Gibi is 2^30
I want to agree with you two, because I hate competing standards, but you gotta admit gigabyte was a poor choice from the start because it took the SI prefix and made it mean something else. Creating Gibi is just correcting that mistake
Agreed, metric prefixes should always remain consistent. Computers can read both though, so why doesn’t windows?
I propose a new standard.
Ghibli[byte/bit]s.
… no I will not expand or further clarify.