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Re:Kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes by j2kun on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @02:06PM (#46875655)
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."

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Re:Kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes by fsckboy on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @03:26PM (#46876789)
>"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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