Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 15:29:14 -0500 (CDT) From: "Valeri Galtsev" <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> To: "Ralf Mardorf" <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bootable ext. USB SSD for backup Message-ID: <15959.128.135.52.6.1489696154.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <20170316211304.1c3481cc@archlinux.localdomain> References: <20170316194612.GA1748@c720-r314251> <33953.128.135.52.6.1489694167.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> <20170316211304.1c3481cc@archlinux.localdomain>
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On Thu, March 16, 2017 3:13 pm, Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-questions wrote: > On Thu, 16 Mar 2017 14:56:07 -0500 (CDT), Valeri Galtsev wrote: >>Junior programmer faithfully thinks that one kilobyte is exactly 1000 >>bytes. >> >>Senior programmer faithfully thinks that one kilogram is exactly 1024 >>grams. > > When I programmed Commodore 64 Assembler a KB was 1024 B, nowadays I > call it a KiB, to distinguish between 2^10 and 10^3, see > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibyte . > > I dislike this joke, since senior programmers usually are also senior > electronics technicians, Right, I've heard the joke in a different language, so I had to make up some equivalent for "computer geek" and otherwise person. Sysadmin doesn't fit there too as,e.g. myself, I have two degrees: electical engineering and computer science, so megaohms, and kilovolts are kind of there. So, I don't know what to call the person so torn off the real life (as I heard the joke in metric based country, where "kilo-" is used everywhere). The best way to proof the joke didn't work is when one has to explain it ;-) Sorry for sour time everybody ;-( Valeri > so while not necessarily aware of the kg unit, > at least well aware of the kΩ unit :p. > > Regards, > Ralf > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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