phoenixz

phoenixz, 1 year ago

This is where garderobe manufacturers are technically right, but theyre still dicks by (ab)using the fuck out of it.

TB = factors of 1000 which humans use, TiB is factors of 1024, which computers use.

Yes yes, they have it correct, it’s 2TB but you’re selling less than expected and you fucking know it.

Then there is also the filesystem that takes a small required cut to store your files nicely but that is almost negligible

phoenixz, 1 year ago

they’ve been doing this for literally centuries

So it’s Friday December the fifth, 80 AD, 5:30pm, and Mozes is hacking away on his clay tables to nail down the final tally of this week’s adminstration of the amount of cows his boss owns and he goes "Mother fucker! These romans again ripped me off, sold me a clay tablet that only allows me to count to 720 cows, not the 751 I got! FUCK! Now I need another tablet and start tallying from the beginning, you mother fuckers!