RSS BotMB to Hacker NewsEnglish · 2 months agoKilobyte is precisely 1000 byteswaspdev.comexternal-linkmessage-square17linkfedilinkarrow-up120arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up119arrow-down1external-linkKilobyte is precisely 1000 byteswaspdev.comRSS BotMB to Hacker NewsEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square17linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squarebrygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoI always still use powers of 2 for everything. Even though I can have any hdd size I want with virtualization, I still do it as power of 2. For anything consumer facing marketing, sure it’s 1000. But it just makes sense to keep programming with 1024.
I always still use powers of 2 for everything. Even though I can have any hdd size I want with virtualization, I still do it as power of 2.
For anything consumer facing marketing, sure it’s 1000. But it just makes sense to keep programming with 1024.