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BmeBenji@lemm.ee to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

KB, MB, GB, and TB are all part of the metric system. What empirical measurements should we Free™️ Americans use for computer memory?

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KB, MB, GB, and TB are all part of the metric system. What empirical measurements should we Free™️ Americans use for computer memory?

BmeBenji@lemm.ee to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago
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  • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.world
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    12 bits to an eagle

    27 eagles to a liberty (changes whenever an amendment is added)

    1776 liberties to a freedom

    Computers are still programmed in bytes, but filesize is always in freedoms.

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      Perhaps bandwidth could be calculated around the fire rate of an AR15?

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