• Powderhorn@beehaw.org
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    4 days ago

    Dear god, are we still using base 2 for file sizes? At least use TiB like a reasonable person.

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      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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        22 hours 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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        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.