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KB, MB, GB, and TB are all part of the metric system. What empirical measurements should we Free™️ Americans use for computer memory? in c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

[–] Matombo@feddit.de 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

KB, MB, GB, and TB are all part of the metric system. What empirical measurements should we Free™️ Americans use for computer memory? in c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

[–] Matombo@feddit.de 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Matombo@feddit.de 13 points 7 months ago

Oh boy you heavily underestimate the amount and level of bad decision in legacy protokoll. Read up in the toppic. the Date was for a loong time stored as 6 decimal numbers.

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[–] Matombo@feddit.de 9 points 7 months ago

debian for example is atm at work recompiling everything vom 32bit to 64bit timestamps (thanks to open source this is no problem) donno what happens to propriarary legacy software

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[–] Matombo@feddit.de 41 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It's called the prevention paradox: It's when an issue is so severe that it is prevented with proactive action, so no real consequenses are felt so people think it wasn't severe in the first place.

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[–] Matombo@feddit.de 1 points 7 months ago

When you bought a thing you owned it.

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[–] Matombo@feddit.de 32 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Haha, that bison player doesnt even know how wrecked his team is once the hidden "teaching" skill of human players starts to pay off real hard. (credits @ tierzoo yt channel)