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On Sunday 30 March 2014 10:33:42 Michał Górny wrote: |
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> Dnia 2014-03-27, o godz. 09:40:47 |
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> "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o> napisał(a): |
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> > The council will be meeing on April 8, 2014 at 1900 UTC. Please bring |
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> > forward any agenda items you would like discussed. |
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> Before we get into another revert war from patrick, I'd like to raise |
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> the following item: |
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> - use of ISO/IEC binary prefixes vs ambiguous 'mega' prefixes |
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> Quick explanation: |
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> ISO/IEC prefixes [1,2]: KiB (kibibyte), MiB (mebi-), GiB (gibi-) |
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> -- unambiguously 2^10, 2^20, 2^30 |
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> 'old' prefixes: kB (kilobyte), MB (mega-), GB (giga-) |
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> -- can mean 10^3 or 2^10 etc. depending on author's intention |
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> -- SI people tend to use 10^N for consistency with other units |
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base-10 bytes make no sense. |
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A "3TB" disk has 2.7TB actual capacity since it's three trillion bytes, and |
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not something that makes sense in a base-2 world. |
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It'd be a lot easier to ignore the marketingbytes used for storage and |
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consistently use bits and bytes in base-2 ... (which is the natural way for |
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bits to end up as they are inherently binary) |
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... but it looks like people prefer inventing some horribad wordenings like |
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maybebytes to avoid this confusion. |
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I strongly recommend not using base-10 bytes or inventing new words to work |
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around the ambiguity created by stupid people, and I hope I don't have to |
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tolerate having a three trellobyte disk. 'cause that would be very sad. And |
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then I'd have to complain every single time I see that stupidity printed out. |
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