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Ukrainian drones now spray 4,000° F thermite streams right into Russian trenches (arstechnica.com)

submitted 2 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] x00za@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

People were using them ambiguously so a real standard was made which is the kibibytes. Vendors and even OSes define KB differently, but KiB will always be base 2. It's stupid yes, but making the original one base 10 was not deliberate.

[–] blusterydayve26@midwest.social 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

People weren’t using them ambiguously, drive manufactures picked a non-standard unit to lie with on their boxes, and then tricked courts into going along with their shit because it was the old case of money vs truth.

[–] x00za@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Maybe I used the wrong word. Interchangeably would be better?

And vendors merely abused the situation. The "kilo" had many people already using it incorrectly.

[–] blusterydayve26@midwest.social 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah, that’s probably a better phrasing.