Imperial, obviously: F(reedom)T(ons) and fractions thereof. 1FT is the amount of data that it takes to store the entire King James edition of the New Testament and the Bill of Rights as a PDF.
this post was submitted on 28 Mar 2024
370 points (93.6% liked)
Programmer Humor
34171 readers
25 users here now
Post funny things about programming here! (Or just rant about your favourite programming language.)
Rules:
- Posts must be relevant to programming, programmers, or computer science.
- No NSFW content.
- Jokes must be in good taste. No hate speech, bigotry, etc.
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
We can use bits instead of bytes. That way it can look 8x bigger than it really is and have no real bearing to modern computing.
No, those are not metric, they just borrowed some prefixes, although it's not like metric designers invented those anyways.
Power of Two
1GB is 29.8975 pots
1MB is 19.9315 pots
M$ already fucked that up for everybody calling GiB GB.
Cut to a younger me looking at HDDs in Walmart, and wondering why the fuck they were using much higher numbers than what the drive actually had. That's when I learned the difference, and started grow my hate for advertising bullshit.
We should measure size of files/storage as a function of how many standardized png's of an american flag would fit in the same amount of space.
digital freedom units
We should measure size of files/storage as a function of how many ~~standardized~~ png’s of an american flag would fit in the same amount of space.
Fixed it, I will not be oppressed by your standards
Surely it would be a standardized png determined by each state legislation so... of varying sizes.
It would be of the state flags, with resolution and compression determined by the state supreme courts obviously.
In America, you need a monthly subscription to use that system
I know you asked about memory, but the computer I just assembled had a 750watt power supply. As an American I think we should refer to it as a "one horsepower power supply" instead.
One hor... Bwahahaha!
(GIF)
That’s not bad, but is there a digital equivalent of a horse we could use?
Nyan cats
char, short, int, long, long long
unsigned long long and minus unsigned long long
I didn't do C++ for over 5 years. Does minus unsigned really give you one bit of data extra?
Are we assuming we’re allowed to use defines and templates? 😏
B-b-but those are cheating 😒
Try KiB, MiB, GiB, TiB, those are metric, KB is not
Other way round: prefixes that contain "bi" are binary, so 1024-based.
Somebody needs to make a satire piece on how the "woke mob" is ruining computers because these units of measurement are all bi.
Bipolar is 1024 based?
Jokes aside, you're talking nonsense. 1024 based?
I think they mean "based off of chunks of 1024", not "base 1024".
My CPU is running at 2.6 Triple thou cycles per imperial second (TTiS)
Don't you mean Triple Imperial Thousand Seconds?
1 kB is 1024 bytes and a byte is 8 bits. That is not metric. It just uses metric prefixes.
1kB is 1000B you are using KiB which Windows to this day calls KB -.-
Linux kernel guilty as well. It reports memory in "kb", but digging through documentation, you will at some point see that they actually mean KiB. The "kb" would be 1000 bits.
view more: next ›