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BmeBenji@lemm.ee to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

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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KB, MB, GB, and TB are all part of the metric system. What empirical measurements should we Free™️ Americans use for computer memory?

BmeBenji@lemm.ee to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago
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    I know you’re joking, but that first Kb definition makes me grind my teeth!

    1.44 floppy disks can store, well, 1.44 MEGAbytes. So how can 1 kg of floppy disks can just store 1 KB?

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      Thank you for your compliment. I love it. The floppy disk is 1.44 non-freedom MB, not 0.015264 miles of CD drives.

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        lol

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