KB, MB, GB, and TB are all part of the metric system. What empirical measurements should we Free™️ Americans use for computer memory?
KB, MB, GB, and TB are all part of the metric system. What empirical measurements should we Free™️ Americans use for computer memory?
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Size of an uncompressed image of the Washington Crossing the Delaware painting = 1 Yankee
12 Yankees in a Doodle
60 Doodles in an Ounce (entirely unrelated to the volume or weight usage of ounce)
271 1 Reply60 Doodles in a Dandy
80 0 ReplyThat's too straightforward. It should be 113 Doodles in a Dandy. And 73 Dandies in a Macaroni.
41 0 ReplyHow many Macaronis in a Handy though? I'd say 1776.
.... I'll see myself out.
7 0 Reply4 Macaronis in a bit of an ounce.
8 Macaronis in a full ounce.
7 0 ReplyMaybe its the number of men in the boat number of dandies in a macaroni
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giggity
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Make sure to make the specific term "Computer Ounce", or co. oz.
38 0 ReplyBetter yet, just use "cooz" as the "common unit"
Then it's proportioned following fluid ounce measurements from there. e.g. "coc" (computer cup) is 16 coozes.
11 0 ReplyAyyy, I'm in COLORADO so this would be great.
7 0 ReplyI second this. It makes total sense - computer memory is a volume to be filled with data. They ain't call parts of a hard drive volumes for nothing.
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Sampled at what resolution, though? It's a physical painting and the true, atomic-scale resolution would make this whole system useless.
May I suggest the entire constitution in ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) instead? Bonus points if any future amendments change the whole system.
Edit: I suppose you actually want to start small. Maybe just the declaration sans-signatures, then. So, 6610*7 = 46,270 bits.
30 0 ReplyCongrats, in my almost year on Lemmy, this is the best comment I've seen!
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