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[–]PigsNowFly 31 points32 points ago

Can we please fucking stop with these asinine posts about the Steam software's errors in calculating data usage?

[–]tadcalabash 6 points7 points ago

It's not just Steam, you see these posts EVERYWHERE!

"Wow! An electronic system shows an absurd error. That's never happened before... I must post to reddit!"

[–]meptrep 2 points3 points ago

But karma!

[–]PigsNowFly 0 points1 point ago

I know, I know. But what I was trying to say is... people should not be upvoting this shit.

[–]meptrep 1 point2 points ago

My post was sarcasm, I completely agree with you. I'm sick of this shit.

[–]guyanonymous 10 points11 points ago

Yeah, they just released an update with more hats.

[–]time2303 5 points6 points ago

So many hats.

[–]BLEED_OUT 4 points5 points ago

17.2EB, or ~343.6% of the internet.

[–]gracenotes 2 points3 points ago

It's actually an important number: 264 bytes. I suppose somewhere an error was reported as -1 and this underflowed and rounded to the amount you see here.

[–]BLEED_OUT 0 points1 point ago

264 bits

And yes, I am very well aware or what happens when you bit shift/subtract from an unsigned integer :)

[–]gracenotes 0 points1 point ago

Sure. To clarify, I more mean that the number represents 264 bytes, stored using 64 bits. It might not even be subtraction so much as careless conversion.

[–]Smithburg01 7 points8 points ago

Oh yay, another of these posts...

[–]ordona 5 points6 points ago

You and a few others lately. I think Valve's internet bill will be up this month.

[–]Opiboble[S] 9 points10 points ago

The problem will be my bill, I have a 150GB Cap! That is going to be an 8 billion dollar fee!

[–]NeedsAGoodUsername 9 points10 points ago

Simple Solution:

Download more money.

[–]DavidTheWin 2 points3 points ago

YOU WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD A CAR

[–]BlueOak777 5 points6 points ago

Actually I think he just did.

[–]Batman_Von_Suparman2 2 points3 points ago

I always hated this saying because we all know we would.

[–]Furah 1 point2 points ago

I'm on 8GB a month. It was 12GB a month, but that's what you get for being out in the bushland.

[–]dariusbatista 0 points1 point ago

Warning: Hard Drive MAY be full

[–]SolidSean 0 points1 point ago

I hope this doesn't become a thing.

[–]snowly 1 point2 points ago

I see your DunDef and raise you my Polynomial (even after reboot).

[–]teslacannon 1 point2 points ago

It's become self-aware!

[–]Freed_lab_rat 1 point2 points ago

17 exabytes. I want your bandwidth and storage medium.

[–]herrjoe 1 point2 points ago

'Please insert floppy disk into drive A to continue'.

[–]Taedirk 0 points1 point ago

That looks about right for DunDef.