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0 pointsargvargc5y ago0 comments

Except that all of these things are "memory", and an interim technology called Floppy Disks used base2, or in some cases at least were base2ish (some were 1000 x 1024).

I remember quite clearly at the time HDD's first started proliferating that many (intelligent) people were legitimately fooled and felt cheated.

In fact I wouldn't be at all surprised if there were lawsuits about it.

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stkdump5y ago· 2 in thread

All the more reason to standardize on what we use literally everywhere else.

argvargcOP5y ago

Nothing against standardisation.

But like many things on this earth, sometimes the less logical and more confusing is what ends up being the accepted norm.

Why metric and imperial? Makes no sense, is confusing.

Why left side right side driving? Makes no sense, is confusing, causes accidents.

Bits and bytes had a standard, it was widespread, understood, logical and useful for those who most had to deal with them. Then one group went out, very likely seeing dollar signs, and decided to be different. They should be the ones adopting the incumbent, logical standard, not the rest of us adopting their less-useful new one, and definitely not ending up with two conflicting standards with a single lowercase letter separating them.

stkdump5y ago

The logical standard are SI prefixes. Do you proprose that a milligram should become 1/1024th of a gram instead?

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