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# The limit is actually 400,000 bytes, not 400KB
Your scant regard for the rules has caused you to go over by 6,543 bytes. As such, my broadband internet experience has been ruined.

I'm going to console myself at web.archive.org and enjoy sites from 1998.
(Blythy Pop Quiz Hotshot..., Thu 16 Feb 2012, 20:46, archived)
# laughing way too hard at this
(I helped save b3ta! Rapitinui get in the cage and I'll give you a treat, Thu 16 Feb 2012, 20:47, archived)
# hahaha
(I helped save b3ta! claptonista ,the idiot boy.........., Thu 16 Feb 2012, 20:48, archived)
# I've never understood these geek numbers
mind you I've never got my head around floating numbers in maths and 3x3.3 recurring equalling 10
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Thu 16 Feb 2012, 20:50, archived)
# 3x3.3 recurring = 10 isn't too bad
cos it's just fractions.

what's insanely annoying is the proof I got shown that 0.999 recurring = 1.

I refuse to believe that. Maybe that's why I'm so shit at calculus.
(Blythy Pop Quiz Hotshot..., Thu 16 Feb 2012, 20:54, archived)
# that's what I meant
it does my head in, I blame my autism
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Thu 16 Feb 2012, 20:55, archived)
# You can't argue with Syanz
Or, as my autocorrect puts it, you can't argue with Shane.
(I helped save b3ta! Ghoti Fingers, Thu 16 Feb 2012, 21:07, archived)
# It's all about twos, lots of them
Your computer counts bytes in powers of two: 1 KiB = 1024 bytes because 1024 = 210.

People (and sneaky HDD makers) count in powers of ten: 1 KB* = 103.

Don't worry about the 0.3... thing, most people have trouble with that. My solution is to just not think too hard about it.

*I don't know why they use a capital k, it flies in the face of normal SI prefixes, but the i in KiB is there so you know which base (2 or 10) you're dealing with.
(I helped save b3ta! jonbob loves you, Thu 16 Feb 2012, 23:55, archived)
# Geekily funny, but factually incorrect
(I helped save b3ta! Michael Ellis contributes nothing, Thu 16 Feb 2012, 20:52, archived)
# every time I read this, it makes me more depressed
It started off as "very funny"

then "very geekily funny"

now it's just "geekily funny"

I'm terrified it'll end up as just "factually incorrect"
(Blythy Pop Quiz Hotshot..., Thu 16 Feb 2012, 21:03, archived)
# I'm easily bored.
(I helped save b3ta! Michael Ellis contributes nothing, Thu 16 Feb 2012, 21:28, archived)