BmeBenji@lemm.ee to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 8 months agoKB, MB, GB, and TB are all part of the metric system. What empirical measurements should we Free™️ Americans use for computer memory?message-squaremessage-square195fedilinkarrow-up1393arrow-down127
arrow-up1366arrow-down1message-squareKB, MB, GB, and TB are all part of the metric system. What empirical measurements should we Free™️ Americans use for computer memory?BmeBenji@lemm.ee to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 8 months agomessage-square195fedilink
minus-squaresolrize@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up80·edit-28 months ago1 tweet = 140 bytes 1 (printed) page = 60 lines of 60 characters = 3600 bytes 1 moa (minute of audio in 128000 bps mp3) = 960000 bytes 1 mov (minute of video) = typically around 30MB but varies by resolution and encoding, like ounces vs troy ounces vs apothecary ounces. 1 loc (library of congress, used for measuring hard drive capacity) = around 10TB depending on jurisdiction.
minus-squareMelmi@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·8 months agoThese are all rough averages, of course, but Tweets can be rather bigger than 140 bytes since they’re Unicode, not ASCII. What’s Twitter without emoji?
minus-squareGraniteM@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 months ago 1 moa (minute of audio in 128000 bps mp3) Give me 320000 bps or give me death!
1 tweet = 140 bytes
1 (printed) page = 60 lines of 60 characters = 3600 bytes
1 moa (minute of audio in 128000 bps mp3) = 960000 bytes
1 mov (minute of video) = typically around 30MB but varies by resolution and encoding, like ounces vs troy ounces vs apothecary ounces.
1 loc (library of congress, used for measuring hard drive capacity) = around 10TB depending on jurisdiction.
These are all rough averages, of course, but Tweets can be rather bigger than 140 bytes since they’re Unicode, not ASCII. What’s Twitter without emoji?
Give me 320000 bps or give me death!