[Toybox] Thuman_readable top header.

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KiB is not a reasonable unit on a (no longer uncommon) machine with
hundreds of GiB. i think by the time you have a number large enough to
_need_ a comma, you're already in "unreasonable" territory.

also, scripts aren't likely to take kindly to commas (let alone
spaces!). get enough European users, and even the humans start to have
trouble with whether a comma is a grouping separator or a decimal
separator.

speaking of scripts, i did wonder whether -b should opt out of
human-readable quantities altogether, on the assumption that it's
mostly meant for other machines rather than humans. (but i don't know
if that's universally true, or just how it's used on Android.
certainly procps top doesn't do anything different for -b.)

On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 5:11 AM <makepost at firemail.cc> wrote:
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> On May 22, 2019, at 3:11 AM, scsijon <scsijon at lamiaworks.com.au> wrote:
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> > Please don't add commas with sizes, most people take it as bytes/etc and don't look for a size multiplier at the right hand end if there are commas in the line.
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> If I follow correctly, the consensus is to have consistently the same multiplier for all values. Users, as you point out, assume it's the smallest by default. That is K, since more precision such as bytes isn't technically available. If commas look too noisy or confusing with decimals, spaces would be fine, too.
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