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

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 年前
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  • lqdrchrd@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Size of an uncompressed image of the Washington Crossing the Delaware painting = 1 Yankee

    12 Yankees in a Doodle

    60 Doodles in an Ounce (entirely unrelated to the volume or weight usage of ounce)

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      Sampled at what resolution, though? It’s a physical painting and the true, atomic-scale resolution would make this whole system useless.

      May I suggest the entire constitution in ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) instead? Bonus points if any future amendments change the whole system.

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      Make sure to make the specific term “Computer Ounce”, or co. oz.

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        I second this. It makes total sense - computer memory is a volume to be filled with data. They ain’t call parts of a hard drive volumes for nothing.

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        Ayyy, I’m in COLORADO so this would be great.

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        Better yet, just use “cooz” as the “common unit”

        Then it’s proportioned following fluid ounce measurements from there. e.g. “coc” (computer cup) is 16 coozes.

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      60 Doodles in a Dandy

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        giggity

      • moody@lemmings.world
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        That’s too straightforward. It should be 113 Doodles in a Dandy. And 73 Dandies in a Macaroni.

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          4 Macaronis in a bit of an ounce.

          8 Macaronis in a full ounce.

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          Maybe its the number of men in the boat number of dandies in a macaroni

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          How many Macaronis in a Handy though? I’d say 1776.

          … I’ll see myself out.

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      Congrats, in my almost year on Lemmy, this is the best comment I’ve seen!

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