https://mony.lol/

ugh. this website makes me feel old.

At the beginning of time, K/M/G etc was based on 1024. This was considered a bad move by some people.

What I don't get is memory packages don't come in thousands, but in volumes dividable by 1024, so why the 1TB=1000 somethings...

Appreciate you talking in code to avoid spoilers for a game released in 1986.

That genuinely sounds fascinating, but I can't click "necessary cookies only" on my phone.

Funny thing, my name (Javaid) is older than the language, but in the search-keyword era it just got me mistaken for a Java dev 😆

Situation: there is 14 standards

Except the guy that's on call that weekend. Fuck that particular guy.

People assume my username is because I write rust. Nah. Rust came after I had it for a few years.

Also

Its great when you buy larger capacity drives and start to lose entire terabytes

I used a floppy disk yesterday. In some businesses we use old equipment for a long time. Because it works.

Yeah:

1000 GB × 1000 × 1000 × 1000 / 1024 / 1024 / 1024 = 931.32 GiB

It's a sufficient explanation. I don't know why the meme has the highest IQ person say "I don't know", unless the joke is that it's easier than explaining...

It’s probably a replication on our languages.

For example, in Swedish… it’s spelled telefon, not telephone. I was trying to think of a word, where in Swedish, it’s a k whereas in English, it’s a c. Ah, yes - katten for cat, as in felix.

Did you know that laser, as in laser disc, is likely from the Swedish word läser, which means to read.

It’s wherever came loading from initramfs and vmlinuz. Basically, whatever BIOS/UEFI found as the Lord of the Roots.

And then there’s Linux, no pondering about media before, it just cares which it found after another on each interface upon boot.

Also, I’m sure the alphabet naming thing came from C/C++, which came after C, which borrowed from B, etc. And yes, there is a D, but people prefer scripting languages because reasons.

Linux uses the unit defined by your locale, it may vary

And it gets more complicated when we get to the metadata and filesystem structure. So, you technically never get to store 931GB, I wonder what the (average) ratio of metadata to data is? 3:1?

Told you guys.

FML you’re telling me I need Random Access Memory Memory now? 😩 Never getting a new pc.

Not the greatest week for grammar nazis either it seems

Interesting.

To make things more confusing, there's a goofy formula which tells you the actual capacity of a given advertised capacity. A drive advertised as 1 TB will always have exactly 1,000,204,886,016 bytes. It helps to have consistency, but nobody seems to knows where the formula came from.

https://superuser.com/questions/1037272/why-does-my-500gb-hard-drive-have-a-capacity-of-exactly-500-107-862-016-bytes

meanwhile I'm over here...

I remember building a computer in 2004 and finally making the decision to not include a floppy drive since I had just been booting from the CD drive for the past couple of issues anyways.

I was reminded of this several years later when I made the decision not to include a disk drive in my latest build.

is there something wrong with RAM on windows? iirc this was one of the things that worked normally for me.