Alyssa the Kate on Mythryl: “For years I've been consistently using Powers of 1000 1 KB→1…”

For years I've been consistently using Powers of 1000 1 KB→1 kilobyte 4 GB→4 gigabytes Powers of 1024 8K→eight k 4M→four megs 10G→ten gigs 7T→seven t (or tebibytes) I think parted used this format? pretty sure it's only been confusing for others

Simon Willison@simonwillison.net

I need to decide if 1KB means 1,000 bytes or 1,024 bytes in all of my software I was leaning 1,024 but it looks like macOS and Windows both define KB as 1,000 these days I want whatever people are most likely to understand (I do not think most people know what KiB or MiB means)

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