Re: Question: SSD speed
Leslie Rhorer wrote:
> On 10/8/2020 8:09 AM, Michael Stone wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 11:53:16AM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> > > Michael Stone wrote:
> > > > > I'd assume it's confusion between bits and bytes. [...]
> > > > > just write out bit or byte
> > >
> > > Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > > > SI prefixes can also help... if you use them consistently.
> > >
> > This is basically never an issue in conversational usage as the
> > difference is less than the margin of error or real-world precision. If
>
> I rather beg to differ. Many daily operations involve precision better
> than the 2.4% variance between 1000 and 1024. Certainly my bank account
> balance is maintained to within $.01 of more than $10,000, or 0.0001%. I
> would be fairly distressed if $240 were missing from my account.
>
> Much of the work I do involves tolerances of less than 1%.
That's great, that's awesome; software is actually very good at
dealing with precision and accuracy.
However, we're talking about people, not software. The people keep being
imprecise. There's nothing that Debian can do about that.
-dsr-
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