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This is the link to the image. It has 3.8mb. In my opinion that is way too much.

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[–] stoy 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Sorry for being a bit of a dick, I think you mean that the file "is 3.8MB".

"mb" would mean millibit, 3.8millibit is an impossibly small file size, and would never exist practically (though I an sure that with some clever maths a zip bomb could be designed so that one bit of data could be compressed into 3.8millibits)

MB is the proper shorthand for MegaByte, a decent file size for a high quallity pucture, depending on the format and compression.

Unless we analyze the image, and determine the image format and compression settings we have no idea of if 3.8MB is a resonable size of the file or not, and the mods have hidden a rar file in the picture file, it is highly improbable that would be the case however.

Sorry for being a dick.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Please stop purposefully misunderstanding people when the thing their trying to say is clear. Most annoying character trait one could have.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

It leads to genuine confusion because of the difference between Mb and MB (and further MiB), so this is a good point to make in this case.

[–] stoy 2 points 11 months ago

This is all fair, I can't say it wont happen again ever, but I usually am not this kind of a dick.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I’ll add some context for anyone who might be interested.

why does the poster image of c/linux have 3.8mb?

When speaking Portuguese (possibly Spanish as well) you would say it like this, a imagem tem….

It is quite common for native speakers of Portuguese (and probably Spanish) mix this up when speaking English.

source: I speak Portuguese

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

OP does not argue about 'has' vs 'is'.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I’m just adding useful extra information to the thread.

Sorry for being a bit of a dick, I think you mean that the file "is 3.8MB".

The sentence I was referring to in my original comment.

Edit: added context

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I was just lazy, but thx for the explanation and the importance of correct spelling

[–] stoy 4 points 11 months ago

Eh, you should not have had to deal with that, I was just annoyed about other stuff and should have ignored the post instead of being a dick.

I am sorry for my bad post.