Yeah, no, I'm sure I noticed it but I didn't really have the sophistication to get the implication.
Before we got our first Windows machine I had some DOS books. I remember a table in DOS for dummies talking about kilo/giga/petabytes and internalized it, but CDs were a thing by then.
I can't imagine he's popular there, save maybe to hate on. The blue no matter who crowd is a large part of that site and this one and they consider him a traitor, race spoiler and probably a ru asset.
I'm not sure if you just didn't read or what. It seems like you understand the history but are insistent on awkward characterizations of the situation.
Kibi is the recon. Not kilo.
I mean kibi is the retcon because it made all previous software wrong.
They didn't modify the use of kilo for other units - they used it as an awkward approximation with bytes. No other units were harmed in the making of these units.
And they didn't hijack it - they used the closest approximation and it stuck. Nobody gave a fuck until they bought a 300gb hd with 277gb of free space.
Kilo was used outside of decimal power rules for data storage/memory because it could only use binary powers at smaller scales. Well, that's the standard we went with anyway.
They didn't 'retcon' the use of kilo as applicable to other units, they went with the closest power of two. When hard drive manufacturers decided to use power of tens it confused people and eventually got standardized by making kb power of ten and kib power of two.
From the looks of it you aren't familiar with the situation.
That was a retcon, though. Initially the SI prefixes were used and used 1024 instead of 1000. I feel like people started getting more fussy about it as hard drives started hitting hundreds of gb.
This is the same guy that now posted political leaders hung in effigy. Do you really believe the intent of his post wasn't to incite and encourage more political violence? because that's fundamentally crossing the line from political speech... and there was never any protection from the consequences of that speech. which, you so blithely seem to want to ignore.
I don't know his intent and I'm pretty lenient on plausible deniability. Some of the most vitriolic arguments I get in at work are about criminal justice reform and I have very strong opinions about individual liberties.
You have budged me a bit, though. I think, all strung together, a search warrant for texts and social media around those days would be in order, but if the private communications were useful for anything, it'd probably be the reason to prosecute and the rest of it is just supporting.
Until they breached the capitol, yeah. Of course. It's a fucking protest. By your definition lots of CEOs public death threats on lemmy daily. But they're just doing their jobs. Right? You're supposed to have a wide berth on speech and robust response to action. Especially political figures, even when they're doing their job.
You don't have to demonize and mistreat people having genuine dialog with you. We're allowed to have different opinions and still treat each other like human beings. Overall this is a small disagreement over human rights.
I'm insisting his speech is shitty but political speech.
I don't think he could sanely be charged, though, either. It doesn't meet the legal requirements to be a threat. You can look up the legal threshold for speech to be considered a threat in the US.
Oh, I love layout breaking shit. It's always been funny.