HatchetHaro@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.ml•KB, MB, GB, and TB are all part of the metric system. What empirical measurements should we Free™️ Americans use for computer memory?
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6 months agoman’s actually taking the piss at OP’s use of “empirical” instead of “imperial”
also, i doubt that measurements of data can be imperial or metric; even Bytes themselves are just measurements of 8 bits.
to be fair, though, 1 and 0 are just binary representations of values, same as decimal and hexadecimal. within your example, we’d absolutely find the entire works of shakespeare encoded in ascii, unicode, and lcd pixel format with each letter arranged in 3x5 grids.