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[–] SpeakinTelnet@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The first company that tried to sell "1 Megabyte/s" instead of "8 Megabits/s" is shooting themselves in the foot because the number is smaller.

You're telling me that what I say is nonsense and you just paraphrase what I said.

Don't go thinking engineering has anything to do with what marketing put up on their storefront.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

It has plenty to do with engineering, because it was engineering that first decided to measure things this way. Marketing merely continued it.

[–] SpeakinTelnet@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Which, as you mentioned, they keep because if they didn't it wouldn't be a good marketing move, higher number sells more. Even though it doesn't reflect the modern end user internet experience. They don't keep it because an engineer prefer that. Marketing will fight tooth and nail to screw us engineers over if it sells better.