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. :) -- |_|O|_| |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: DDAB 23FB 19FA 7D85 1CC1 E067 6D65 70E5 4CE7 2860
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