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• thingsiplay@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It doesn’t matter in this case, as long as it is documented (and it is by the unit).

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  • Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    To be clear, I’m fine with RAM being base 2 – it’s rather difficult for it not to be given the structure – but for fixed storage, this is an old-school measurement that only gets worse with each order of magnitude.

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• Summzashi@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Nobody does that nerd

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• phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yes, we all do

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• interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I don’t remember which is the stupid “1024 bytes in a kilobyte” one but
  745,450,666,761,889 byte is 745 terabytes, that should be 745 TB and that 678 should be what TiB is for
  And also that entire 677.98 is a useless value, there’s nothing that is “677” about this

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  • Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It is if you just truncate! No one should do this, as I don’t recall the last time I saw such a textbook example of “rounding error” meaning “we fucked up while rounding.”

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