2026-09-22 19:25 UTC
Or in modern gen-z speak:
“There are 8.589934592 Gigabits in a Gibibyte” - statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged.
They have played us for absolute fools.
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@moof@cupoftea.social 2026-09-22 19:33
Like, seriously, you just know someone has put that into a spreadsheet, run through the IEEE floating point crap, and come out with an entirely untrue number. And that was before ai estimation
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@madengineering@hachyderm.io 2026-09-22 20:07
@moof@cupoftea.social The whole "hurr hurr gibibyte" thing annoys me so much. In any other industry if I tried to redefine the foot as 10 inches for some nonsensical reason, I'd be prosecuted for fraud at best.