RSS BotMB to Hacker NewsEnglish · 15 hours agoKilobyte is precisely 1000 byteswaspdev.comexternal-linkmessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up115arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up114arrow-down1external-linkKilobyte is precisely 1000 byteswaspdev.comRSS BotMB to Hacker NewsEnglish · 15 hours agomessage-square17fedilinkfile-text
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.
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.