Its basically like a cloud storage, and your local storage (your brain) gets wiped every loop. You can edit this file any time you want using your brain (you can be tied up and it still works). 1024 Bytes is all you get. Yes you read that right: BYTES, not KB, MB, or GB: 1024 BYTES

Lets just say, for this example: The loop is 7 days form a Monday 6 AM to the next Monday 5:59 AM.

How do you best use these 1024 Bytes to your advantage?

How would your strategy be different if every human on Earth also gets the same 1024 Bytes “memory buffer”?

  • Zacryon@feddit.org
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    2 days ago

    Yes you read that right: BYTES, not KB, MB, or GB: 1024 BYTES

    1024 Bytes are 1 Kibibyte or 1,024 Kilobytes.

    • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
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      2 days ago

      And to make it even more confusing, the person I’m replying to is using a thousandths separator (“,”) that is ambiguous. Unlike metric, there isn’t an international standard for this. More than half the world uses 1,024.00; between 70-80% of the people in the world use “.” as the decimal separator; of these, most use “,” for thousandths, and under 2% use apostrophe. So, most of the world would write “one thousand twenty four” as 1,024, and 20-30% would write 1.024, and a very few - mostly the Swiss and Albanians - would write 1’024.

      So Zacryon, your punctuation means something different in different countries. To most people in the world, you’re claiming 1 Kibibytes = 1 Mibibyte.

      In the most Milquetoast way, no standards committee has put their foot down and said, “this is the way numbers should be represented.”

      The only good solution is to pick something everyone hates for thousandths separators. I like “_”. 1_024. There. Nobody but software developers uses that.

      So: to everyone reading this, Zacryon isn’t wrong, they’re just using a decimal separator used by a minority of people in the world.

      • Zacryon@feddit.org
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        10 hours ago

        Good point comma!

        Unlike metric, there isn’t an international standard for this.

        There is one, ISO 80000‑1. But it specifically allows commas and points. Which doesn’t resolve the confusion. We really should adhere to one single standard for this.

        I’ll be more cautious now, when writing such numbers in English. Thanks for pointing commaing that out!