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Ukrainian drones now spray 4,000° F thermite streams right into Russian trenches (arstechnica.com)

submitted 3 months ago by return2ozma to c/technology

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[–] sep 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Everybody knew exactly what kilo mega and giga ment. when drive vendors deliberatly lied on there pdf's about their drive sizes. Warnings were issued: this drive will not work in a raid as a replacement for same size!!. And everybody was throwing fumes on mailinglists about the bullshit situation.

But money won, as usual.

Source: threw fumes!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Not too sure if they outright lied, but I suppose we can say that they used the change to make their drives seem larger!

That's why I wished computer people had used a prefix system distinct from the SI ones. If we're measuring our storage devices in yeetibytes rather than gigabytes, for example, then I suppose there's less chance that we've ended up in this situation.