Re: [PATCH] git-fetch: more terse fetch output

From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date: Nov 3, 2007, 23:31 UTC
Message-ID: <20071103233144.GA16734@glandium.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0711031546110.15101@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 03:48:42PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Mike Hommey wrote:
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> > How many grams in a kilogram ? How many meters in a kilometer ? How many
> > joule in a kilojoule ? ... How many bytes in a kilobyte ? Oh wait...
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> How many 'u's in the word "colour"?
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> Oh, wait - it depends on context, doesn't it?
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> kB is 1024 bytes. The fact that "k" means something else in other contexts 
> is simply irrelevant.

What about the fact that "kB" means different things depending whether it's used for bandwidth or memory capacity ? Does your brain have base 2 hard-coded so that you instantly know 50000000 bytes are 47.68MB ? Are people unable to do so pondscum ?

Mike