Its basically like a cloud storage, and your local storage (your brain) gets wiped every loop. You can edit this file any time you want using your brain (you can be tied up and it still works). 1024 Bytes is all you get. Yes you read that right: BYTES, not KB, MB, or GB: 1024 BYTES
Lets just say, for this example: The loop is 7 days form a Monday 6 AM to the next Monday 5:59 AM.
How do you best use these 1024 Bytes to your advantage?
How would your strategy be different if every human on Earth also gets the same 1024 Bytes “memory buffer”?
1024 Bytes are 1 Kibibyte or 1,024 Kilobytes.
And to make it even more confusing, the person I’m replying to is using a thousandths separator (“,”) that is ambiguous. Unlike metric, there isn’t an international standard for this. More than half the world uses 1,024.00; between 70-80% of the people in the world use “.” as the decimal separator; of these, most use “,” for thousandths, and under 2% use apostrophe. So, most of the world would write “one thousand twenty four” as 1,024, and 20-30% would write 1.024, and a very few - mostly the Swiss and Albanians - would write 1’024.
So Zacryon, your punctuation means something different in different countries. To most people in the world, you’re claiming 1 Kibibytes = 1 Mibibyte.
In the most Milquetoast way, no standards committee has put their foot down and said, “this is the way numbers should be represented.”
The only good solution is to pick something everyone hates for thousandths separators. I like “_”. 1_024. There. Nobody but software developers uses that.
So: to everyone reading this, Zacryon isn’t wrong, they’re just using a decimal separator used by a minority of people in the world.
Goddamn it who named these terms? The original term was supposed to be 1024 bytes, why the fuck was the definition of Kilobyte retroactively changed?
Kilo is metric for 1000, not 1024. To remain consistent it was changed.
To conform with SI unit prefixes. Which is a good thing imo.
But according to Wiki the IEC defined those binary prefixes in 1999. And I find it problematic that so few still don’t know about this and don’t adhere to that standard. Even fellow engineers don’t use it correctly. No wonder companies like Microsoft also still use it wrong. This keeps things confusing.