I'm not talking about 1 person. I'm talking about everyone driving 60 when the sign says 40, and then there's 1 person driving 38. That 1 person is dangerous. In real life that is also the person who gets a ticket for driving too slowly, not the other 90% of drivers.

You can say it's the fault of the people who speed all you want. It is, but that's not the point. But at the end of the day laws have to be followed by people and when making laws (or setting speed limits) you have to take into account how people will react. As others have already posted, many if not most people will drive at whatever speed feels safe for the road conditions. In fact this is what is taught in driving school in Europe. If you feel that the situation requires a different speed, drive at a different speed. Usually this means drive slower. The problem is that when the speed limit is lower than the speed people normally feel is safe, they will ignore the limit. This is why you don't just put a highway near a school and stick on a 15mph sign. You make a small street with bumps and lights and all that.

Police shouldn't be allowed to make deals with people to testify against other people. Often enough when you hear one of these things it's because the cops convinced someone to lie that they saw that person.

And I screwed up my own post and used b for byte.

And I completely agree with you on all of those points. Like I already said: I was just pointing out that kilo = k not K. There is no ambiguity there. If you just have a k without context, then it is pretty much impossible to know what exactly it means. Also note that according to SI a kb is 1000 b. It's just that no one seems to actually use the proposed kib notation, because kibi byte sounds stupid. On a related note, it's also very confusing that in many places people use b for byte instead of B. Or sometimes it's unclear which they mean.

The reason processors are small is mostly due to yield. Silicon wafers have more or less a constant amount of defects per unit of area. What this means is that the larger your chip is, the lower the number of working processors you end up with. The smaller the chip the more working processors you end up with per wafer.

That's all very true. But that's just people using the metric prefixes incorrectly. I just wanted to point out that 1000 = k, since the OP I replied to said that the metric system replaced M with K.

It may not be completely logical to have kilo as one of only 3 multiples of ten that does not use a capital letter, but there is no ambiguity in the standard for which symbol stands for kilo.

That's horrible. The grass needs time in between mowing to recuperate.

I think it might have more to do with you actually valuing the opinions of your friends and family over whatever some stranger on the internet says.

I keep seeing that K is for 1000, but as far as I know that's simply not true. It's just people using some broken version of metric prefixes. k = kilo and K is Kelvin specifically to avoid confusion if you are using the metric system. Having m for mili and meter is bad enough.

I don't know, I think the History channel (aka Conspiracy channel) might beat them for number 1.

Is there any syntax in C++ that you would want to change, or remove, if you didn't have to worry about compatibility with previous version?