More #$%& from #$%&#$ %&#$%&#$ Re: [ PFIR ] Netanyahu's son removes anti-Semitic meme from Facebook following outcry

Hollow Domer shediedfrombeingtoof at redchan.it
Fri Sep 22 15:11:00 PDT 2017


> grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
> Fri Sep 22 12:31:22 PDT 2017
>
> It was shy of 166KiB in proper data storage context
>

Proper ? Please explain.

> unfit context
>

Please explain why.

> "K" isn't valid
>

You are (((correct))).
170kB is most (((proper))).

> prefix
>

The first letter of a word is not a prefix, modanon.
Kilo is the prefix.

> lern2units
>

Learn to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you.

Kilo is a word.
Byte is a word.
Kilobyte is an endocentric or copulative compound word.
Compound words are abbreviated as initialisms.
KB is thus the most suitable abbreviation.

> punkanons
>

Here's some news:
To address this confusion, a new set of binary prefixes have been
introduced which are based on powers of 2. In that system, 1024 bytes
are called a kibibyte or 1 KiB.""

A new set of binary prefixes...sounds familiar.



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