I often find myself explaining the same things in real life and online, so I recently started writing technical blog posts.

This one is about why it was a mistake to call 1024 bytes a kilobyte. It’s about a 20min read so thank you very much in advance if you find the time to read it.

Feedback is very much welcome. Thank you.

  • michaelmrose@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I’ve never met anyone that actually uses the new prefixes for 1024 and the old prefixes to mean 1000