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Why a kilobyte is 1000 and not 1024 bytes

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  • This whole mess regularly frustrates me... why the units can't be used consistently?!

    The other peeve of mine with this debacle is that drive capacities using SI units do not use the full available address space (since it's binary). Is the difference between 250GB and 256GiB really used effectively for wear-levelling (which only applies to SSDs) or spare sectors?

    • under siege

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  • This is why you never let them realise human food tastes good.

    • Meet Ashley, the world's first AI-powered political campaign caller

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  • I wonder how long before someone works out how to manipulate the AI and get it to say things the campaign didn't intend.

    • I'd watch it.

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  • Yep, as Jellico in 'Chain of Command'.

    • I am tired of corporatist technology and I need help to get away from it.

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  • I second the suggestion of RSS feeds (I use TheOldReader) and DuckDuckGo as search engine replacement.

    Also, Mozilla's Pocket is a useful tool for collecting articles (and having related ones recommended to you).

    • It's surprisingly easy to mix up a couple of coordinates

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    • Was updating my Christmas Trek Music playlist and realized y'all might like

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  • I needed that laugh. Thankyou!

    • Jacinta Allan to replace Dan Andrews as Premier of Vic

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  • This is exactly what worries me.

    • Judge tears apart Republican lawsuit alleging bias in Gmail spam filter

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  • Well, if political emails didn't read like spam so often, they probably wouldn't be as much of a problem... Despite not even being a US citizen or living in the US, I still sometimes get US political emails or end up signed up to email lists, so they get marked as spam!

    • Bill Barr says he’s willing to testify against Trump at Jan. 6 trial

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  • Self-preservation is a strong instinct.

    • Australia baffled as unidentified mystery object washes up on beach (BBC News)

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  • Sounds plausible to me (the fuel cylinder ID rather than the orca uprising...).

    • Sky News Australia to launch new channel dedicated to covering Indigenous voice

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  • Ugh. We don't need another Fox News lite channel here.

    • The Child Labor of Early Capitalism Is Making a Big Comeback in the US

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  • A subset of humans. Not everyone fails to learn from history.

    • The Child Labor of Early Capitalism Is Making a Big Comeback in the US

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  • Only a subset. Unfortunately they are doing their utmost to ensure they're the ones making the decisions.

    • The Indigenous Voice to Parliament – separating fact from fiction | 7.30

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  • Except they're not in Parliament. The Voice is a body that can make submissions to Parliament; they don't get to make the decisions. Parliament is still made up of elected representatives.