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Date:      Fri, 23 Jan 2015 17:03:27 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Vsevolod Stakhov <vsevolod@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r377746 - head/ports-mgmt/pkg
Message-ID:  <20150123170327.GA88205@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <54C277CA.8000609@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201501231557.t0NFvKFE047114@svn.freebsd.org> <20150123160458.GA68670@FreeBSD.org> <54C277CA.8000609@FreeBSD.org>

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On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 04:33:14PM +0000, Vsevolod Stakhov wrote:
> On 23/01/15 16:04, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > Oh dear god, no.  Can we have a conditional (like -DSANE_UNITS) to
> > suppress this MiB stupidity please?
> 
> We can do it if and only if you could tell us your weight in stones
> without asking the Internet. :)
> 
> I'm personally happy to end the ambiguity between hard drive Terabytes
> and network Tebibytes...

HDD marketing dept. fuckers are out of question of course, but all the
rest who cannot memorize that k == 1000 in km and k == 1024 in k[Bb]
probably need to go back to school.  For the normal people, these MiB's
severely slow down reading speed and bandwidth information due to the
constant WTF?-type read cacheline flushes.

./danfe



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