interolivary comments on Implementing Tic Tac Toe with 170mb of HTML

[–] interolivary@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

The guy in the blog says mb (millibits)

a) does anybody actualy use that? How many people reading this thread can say they've actually seen that in real use or used it?

b) I'm fairly convinced you knew what was meant because it's not like it's uncommon to use a minuscule m for "mega" in colloquial usage

Weird performative pedantry or a joke that flew over my head? I give about a 0.5 probability for both

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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

I was actually confused enough to have to check. I frequently work with memory, storage and bandwidth calculations so I'm always aware of the distinction between MB and Mb (and MiB, etc.), so I wondered whether "mb" was intentional, if weird.

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[–] elint@programming.dev 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

Do you really work with memory, storage, and bandwidth? If so, have you EVER run across an instance where memory, storage, or bandwidth were referred to in millibits? Memory, storage, and bandwidth are extremely important in my job, though not my direct focus, and I can say over 50 years as a sysadmin and coder, I have never encountered "mb" and had it actually mean "millibits". Literally not once. Now "Mb" definitely has some ambiguity (in bandwidth, it's used for Megabits, and in memory/storage, it's more often than not a typo of MB), but "mb" actually meaning "millibits"? No, friend. Just no.

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