alt Hacker NewsWhat are you talking about? The article literally fully explains the rationale, as well as the history. It's not "denying" anything. Seems entirely reasonable and balanced to me.
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waffletower • yesterday at 8:26 PM
They are definitely denying the importance of 2-fold partitioning in computing architectures. VM_PAGE_SIZE is not defined with the value of '10000' for good reason (in many operating systems it is set to '16384').
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Yea I don't understand the issue here. SI is pretty clear, and this post explains the other standard a little bit.
It's really not all that crazy of a situation. What bothers me is when some applications call KiB KB, because they are old or lazy.