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Please don't scare them!
(lemmy.ml)
The red squiggly underlines make me sad.
Screenshooting a Word document is utterly disgusting.
Absolutely! It should be an OpenDocument Spreadsheet
Screenshooting, lol.
God, I wish we used this here. It is such a better system than our system of potholes being measured in washing machines in some parts of the country.
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I’m an American and I approve this message.
It's deca, not deka
Not in German 😶
American who just woke up... upvote cuz metric
Where are the metric units? All I see is prefixes explained
My sibling in Satan, that's the backbone of the metric system. Nobody said anything about units.
Gotcha, so we're talking kilotons and microinches then?
Or is it actually the units that make the metric system scary to Americans?
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nooooo my teaspoon measurements!
It's just prefixes, you can use decateaspoons if you want.
Those are tablespoons!
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This isn’t the metric system.
Joke's on you; I'm an insomniac.
And FWIW we use the metric system too. We just tend to mix it with US Customary, like how Canada and The UK does with Metric and Imperial. Except the UK uses more Metric than Imperial. Vice versa for the US. Food is sold using both. Science and computing are always in Metric. And a few other things too but it's 4am and I'm too tired to think.
Edit: I don't even know how a CPU's temperature translates to Fahrenheit, but for weather it makes perfect sense. I know that 100°F is hot for outside, and that 80°C is hot for a processor. But I couldn't tell you what is what if you swapped the measurements.
If you'd swap those, your CPU would be super cool and outside would be deadly.
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Sleep deprived Canadian approves.
This is wrong. Some identifiers should start with a lowercase letter (like kilo)
Correct, except in Computing, there the Kilo, Mega, Giga ....are in uppercase, to differentiate it from the decimal system as it is based on powers of 2. 1 km is 1000 meters but 1 Kb is 1024 bytes
That is no correct. You are talking about kibi, mebi and gibi. The corresponding identifiers are Ki, Mi and Gi, not K M and G. K would mean Kelvin, M is 10⁶, G is 10⁹
You're both right, and that's the problem.
And it only gets more complicated from there.
In storage 1GB is 1000MB and 1MB is 1000KB and 1KB is 1000 bytes..... This is almost exclusive to hard drives. The rest of the industry uses what is now known as KiB, MiB and GiB, or kebibytes, mebibytes, and gibibytes. 1GiB is 1024MiB, and 1MiB is 1024KiB, and 1KiB is 1024 bytes.
If you're not talking about disk storage, then 1MB is 1MiB (1MB can be either 1024KB or 1000KB depending on context). The terms GiB/MiB/KiB were created because of the confusion between 1024 and 1000 for each jump in size, it's a relatively new term created to increase clarity between the various definitions, where MiB will always be the 1024 KiB version, and MB can be either; in this way, HDD manufacturers don't need to change anything that they are doing, and the industry can have a pure term, free of the confusion created by the disk drive industry.
To bake your brain even more, datacom uses 1000 instead of 1024 for increments, so 1Kbps is 1000bits/s and 1Mbps is 1000Kbits/s. So data transfer, link speeds and throughputs are generally going by the 10base numbering instead of the powers of 2.
The whole thing is a mess, and everyone wants to be the "will acktually" person to correct people about MB vs MiB and none of it actually matters, it's an entirely stupid situation created because the data storage jerks wanted to be able to put a slightly bigger number on their box to say how much capacity their drives had by just omitting the extra 24 bytes per KB, and extra 24 KB per MB, etc. So their product would look like it's bigger than it is.
Arguing about it is pointless.
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And then there're the Americans who point at the Metric system and scream "why not us". Which is anyone who's sane and not afraid of change.
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Damn, I did 2 years of physics studies but I never heard about atto and exa. Though I did spend a lot of time to try to memorise the other ones.
Just wait until you hear about zetta (10^21) and yotta (10^24) and their inverses zepto (10^-21) and yocto (10^-24). :D
Huh, neat! When fact-checking my statement, I just learned that there are even two more prefixes on each side of the scale: ronna (10^27), quenna (10^30), ronto (10^-27) and quecto (10^-30). They got added last year.
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As an American, I upvoted.
Edit: Wait, why am I awake at 5am?
American here up voting because sane measurements.
It's just so confusing, the American system is so much better /s
American expat upvoting for science
I wait to the day the US rejects the metric completely, and invents a new system for Voltage measurement (proposed unit names: cell, shock, spark).
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it's beautiful
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