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		j2kun 24 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes? When I read "KiB" I say "kib" and it's fine. Similar for GiB, TiB, PiB. "I bought a two tib SSD." "I just want to serve five pibs."

fsckboy 24 days ago [–]

>"I bought a two tib SSD."

no you didn't, that doesn't exist, you bought 2 trillion bytes, 99 billion bytes short

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