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pif
13 days ago
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1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes?
> Why don’t kilobyte continue to mean 1024
Because it never did!
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ratrace
13 days ago
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Which universe do you hail from? Because nobody except pedants have relented to this demand from non-computer scientists to conform to a standardization that has nothing to do with them or the work they do.
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