On Thu, Jan 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM Michael Stone <mst...@debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 09, 2025 at 09:47:11PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > >For the people who need exact figures, on the other hand, binary units > >are much more convenient, not just to measure the size of memory > >modules: alignment requirements, maximum sizes of files and devices, > >size of stripes, they are all based on powers of two. > > Baloney. People who need to worry about those things are/should be doing > that programatically and absolutely do not "need" GiB for anything at > all, certainly not for display. For everyone else, basically all the > time and in every situation, power of ten units make more sense. The > entire computing world has been saddled with this "but a computer > kilobyte is really" nonsense far too long, and it actively hurts UX for > everyone other than the vanishingly small set of people who won't shut > up about how important it is to keep that anachronism. > It takes 8 bits to make one byte, should we change that to 10 too.... -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org/ ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀
