On Jan 09, 2025, Timothy M Butterworth wrote:
> 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....

Please no, 8b10b encoding is hard enough. :)


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