Oh yeah, and also just ...too many webcomics.
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Also I never really thought of it that way, but now I'm imagining all of those "the ai thinks this is a bus" things as alien optical illusions.
Yeah. I have a gay sister, and she's been out since long before I even put the pieces together about myself, let alone came out.
She was the first person I came out to in person, and I haven't really talked to her about the being gay part of it, but come to think of it she probably realized right away that me being trans also implied lesbian. Not that it stopped me from feeling like I was somehow intruding on her space by even thinking of myself that way...
Thanks for this.
Unfortunately, in order to succeed in distancing myself from them, I have also had to increase my distance from a bunch of my family that are supportive. My family is really connected, and one of the two main offenders is my dad, so making more distance with him means going to fewer family get togethers.
And the other main person is my wife and my daughter's other mom, and that's another relationship where adding distance is difficult to impossible...
Well you've clearly not found my other account.
Which, uh... Doesn't exist. Yeah.
Sorry, who are you?
The original comment in this thread was about how the article lists the capacity of this experimental disk in bits, and posited that bytes are the usual unit to use.
The next comment was about how networks are measured in bits.
So my replies since then have been about two points, first that bits are still inappropriate to use here even if networks use them, and second that networks use bits per second, which is a different unit than bits.
That's kind of like saying kilometers are measured in kilometers per hour, but a drag strip is a quarter mile
It's more like saying speed is measured in kilometers per hour rather than kilometers (point 2) while also saying that the country we're talking about measures distance in miles usually (point 1).
Storage are measured in bytes because data are stored in that form, with an individual bit being meaningless but a single byte often being significant. Network throughputs are measured in bits per second because the time-density of data is the significant thing there, not the total number of bytes transmitted.
There are 8 bits in a byte and there are 9 degrees Rankine in every 5 degrees Celsius, but if I told you the temperature for tomorrow in degrees Rankine, you would still think me weird for saying it that way and you might wonder what I was hiding.
There are almost always dozens of units we could use to describe something, but it's okay to call it out when someone says something unusually as the original headline did.
Duly noted.
Kids, that weird guy is going to educate you, so listen closely.
My secret trick is that once you are well coated in pillows, you bring in a blanket or two, bunch them all up, and use them as pillows.
They seriously haven't updated the rulebook? It's been a quarter century!