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Cake day: August 16th, 2023

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  • Dude you’re pretty condescending for a new author on an old topic.

    Yeah I read it and it’s very over worded.

    1024 was the closest binary approximation of 1000 so that became the standard measurement. Then drive manufacturers decided to start using decimal for capacity because it was a great way to make numbers look better.

    Then the IEC decided “enough of this confusion” and created binary naming standards (kibi gibi etc…) and enforced the standard decimal quantity values for standard names like kilo-.

    It’s not ground breaking news and your constant arguing with people in the thread paints you as quite immature. Especially when plenty of us remember the whole story BECAUSE WE LIVED IT AS IT PROFESSIONALS.

    We lacked a standard, a system was created. It was later changed to match global standard values.

    You portray it with emotive language making decisions out to be stupid, or malicious. A decision was made that was perfectly sensible at the time. It was then improved. Some people have trouble with change.

    Your writing and engagement styles scream of someone raised on clickbait news. Focus on facts, not emotion and sensationalism if you want to be taken seriously in tech writing.

    Focus on emotion and bullshit of you want to work for BuzzFeed.

    And if you just want an argument go use bloody twitter.


  • It’s a nack. See one, the others will likely be in a tent shaped layout. Some brains are just very good at visual pattern matching.

    I have an unbroken record for being the person that finds anything tiny and lost. In school the kids called me “night vision”.

    Lose a ball over the fence an 1am. 10 people looking. Can’t find it. Get me to look and I find it in 1 minute or less. Lost a diamond or earring backing in shag carpet? I’ll find it ao fast you won’t believe it.

    I’ve occasionally had to pretend it takes longer to find it, just so they don’t think I pranked them and took it.