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KB, MB, GB, and TB are all part of the metric system. What empirical measurements should we Free™️ Americans use for computer memory? (lemm.ee)
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[–] lqdrchrd@lemmy.blahaj.zone 267 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Size of an uncompressed image of the Washington Crossing the Delaware painting = 1 Yankee

12 Yankees in a Doodle

60 Doodles in an Ounce (entirely unrelated to the volume or weight usage of ounce)

[–] walter_wiggles@lemmy.nz 79 points 7 months ago (2 children)

60 Doodles in a Dandy

[–] moody@lemmings.world 41 points 7 months ago (3 children)

That's too straightforward. It should be 113 Doodles in a Dandy. And 73 Dandies in a Macaroni.

[–] Kindness@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 months ago

4 Macaronis in a bit of an ounce.

8 Macaronis in a full ounce.

[–] Quexotic@infosec.pub 7 points 7 months ago

How many Macaronis in a Handy though? I'd say 1776.

.... I'll see myself out.

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago

Maybe its the number of men in the boat number of dandies in a macaroni

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 38 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Make sure to make the specific term "Computer Ounce", or co. oz.

[–] DahGangalang@infosec.pub 11 points 7 months ago

Better yet, just use "cooz" as the "common unit"

Then it's proportioned following fluid ounce measurements from there. e.g. "coc" (computer cup) is 16 coozes.

[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 7 points 7 months ago

Ayyy, I'm in COLORADO so this would be great.

[–] pound_heap@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

I second this. It makes total sense - computer memory is a volume to be filled with data. They ain't call parts of a hard drive volumes for nothing.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 30 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Sampled at what resolution, though? It's a physical painting and the true, atomic-scale resolution would make this whole system useless.

May I suggest the entire constitution in ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) instead? Bonus points if any future amendments change the whole system.

Edit: I suppose you actually want to start small. Maybe just the declaration sans-signatures, then. So, 6610*7 = 46,270 bits.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 8 points 7 months ago

Congrats, in my almost year on Lemmy, this is the best comment I've seen!