Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 21:13:04 +0100 From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bootable ext. USB SSD for backup Message-ID: <20170316211304.1c3481cc@archlinux.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <33953.128.135.52.6.1489694167.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> References: <20170316194612.GA1748@c720-r314251> <33953.128.135.52.6.1489694167.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu>
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On Thu, 16 Mar 2017 14:56:07 -0500 (CDT), Valeri Galtsev wrote: >Junior programmer faithfully thinks that one kilobyte is exactly 1000 >bytes. > >Senior programmer faithfully thinks that one kilogram is exactly 1024 >grams. When I programmed Commodore 64 Assembler a KB was 1024 B, nowadays I call it a KiB, to distinguish between 2^10 and 10^3, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibyte . I dislike this joke, since senior programmers usually are also senior electronics technicians, so while not necessarily aware of the kg unit, at least well aware of the k=E2=84=A6 unit :p. Regards, Ralf
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