RSS Bot@lemmy.bestiver.seMB to Hacker News@lemmy.bestiver.seEnglish · 11 days agoKilobyte is precisely 1000 byteswaspdev.comexternal-linkmessage-square17linkfedilinkarrow-up120arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up119arrow-down1external-linkKilobyte is precisely 1000 byteswaspdev.comRSS Bot@lemmy.bestiver.seMB to Hacker News@lemmy.bestiver.seEnglish · 11 days agomessage-square17linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareKairos@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 days agoI’m not denying any of that. You can just be precise, is all.
minus-squareover_clox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 days agoBut if you fall into the folly of decimal on a device inherently meant to process binary, then you might allocate an array of 1000 items, rather than the natural binary of 1024, leading to a chance of a memory overflow… Like, sell by the 1000, but program by the 1024.
minus-squareKairos@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 days agoAll the more reason to be precise
I’m not denying any of that. You can just be precise, is all.
But if you fall into the folly of decimal on a device inherently meant to process binary, then you might allocate an array of 1000 items, rather than the natural binary of 1024, leading to a chance of a memory overflow…
Like, sell by the 1000, but program by the 1024.
All the more reason to be precise