Comment by crazygringo
18 days ago
What are you talking about? The article literally fully explains the rationale, as well as the history. It's not "denying" anything. Seems entirely reasonable and balanced to me.
18 days ago
What are you talking about? The article literally fully explains the rationale, as well as the history. It's not "denying" anything. Seems entirely reasonable and balanced to me.
They are definitely denying the importance of 2-fold partitioning in computing architectures. VM_PAGE_SIZE is not defined with the value of '10000' for good reason (in many operating systems it is set to '16384').
That's why I said "usually acceptable depending on the context". In spoken language I also don't like the awkward and unusual pronunciation of "kibi". But I'll still prefer to write in KiB, especially if I document something.
Also If you open major Linux distro task managers, you'll be surprised to see that they often show in decimal units when "i" is missing from the prefix. Many utilities often avoid the confusing prefixes "KB", "MB"... and use "KiB", "MiB"...
No they're not? They very specifically address it.
Why do you keep insisting the author is denying something when the author clearly acknowledges every single thing you're complaining about?
Denying the importance of...
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Yea I don't understand the issue here. SI is pretty clear, and this post explains the other standard a little bit.
It's really not all that crazy of a situation. What bothers me is when some applications call KiB KB, because they are old or lazy.
because they are old
I keep using "K" for kilobyte because it makes the children angry since they lack the ability to judge meaning from context.
You sly dog.
...old lazy and wrong! Capital K is for Kelvin.
>Capital K is for Kelvin.
It should be "kelvin" here. ;)
Unit names are always lower-case[1] (watt, joule, newton, pascal, hertz), except at the start of a sentence. When referring to the scientists the names are capitalized of course, and the unit symbols are also capitalized (W, J, N, Pa, Hz).
[1] SI Brochure, Section 5.3 "Unit Names" https://www.bipm.org/documents/20126/41483022/SI-Brochure-9-...
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