RSS BotMB to Hacker NewsEnglish · 15 hours agoKilobyte is precisely 1000 byteswaspdev.comexternal-linkmessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up115arrow-down11file-text
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minus-squareKairos@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 hours agoI’m not denying any of that. You can just be precise, is all.
minus-squareover_clox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 hours agoBut if you fall into the folly of decimal on a device inherently meant to process binary, then you might allocate an array of 1000 items, rather than the natural binary of 1024, leading to a chance of a memory overflow… Like, sell by the 1000, but program by the 1024.
I’m not denying any of that. You can just be precise, is all.
But if you fall into the folly of decimal on a device inherently meant to process binary, then you might allocate an array of 1000 items, rather than the natural binary of 1024, leading to a chance of a memory overflow…
Like, sell by the 1000, but program by the 1024.