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I came across a functioning coder today asking if a kilogram was 1000 or 1024 grams.

Yes they did ask, yes they verified, yes they accepted 1000 grams.

I swear ten thousand years in the future some fucker will 'oops, black hole!' 'cos they began in comp sci and learned kilo = 1024 first and NOBODY WILL CATCH IT. Humanity will be WIPED OUT because YOU LOT KEPT THIS SHIT UP.

Chao-c' · 3w

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqc5u4nuyp50yy82w2y7592le6ta7pyc6tqsulhrg5c5qy5jtrt2dq4ua2ht 1024 is imperial unit version of "kilo" prefix 🙂 (On the other hand, 1024 is important multiplicator in computer science... it should just be called differently :-)

Jim Spath · 3w

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqc5u4nuyp50yy82w2y7592le6ta7pyc6tqsulhrg5c5qy5jtrt2dq4ua2ht NASA meets Lockheed Martin in an imperial-metric throwdown. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter

Andrew Zonenberg · 3w

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqc5u4nuyp50yy82w2y7592le6ta7pyc6tqsulhrg5c5qy5jtrt2dq4ua2ht brb packaging some product in 1 kibigram packages