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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)

John Spurlock
@johnspurlock.com

I've made the change to base 10, mostly thanks to macos and cloudflare. only painful for old people

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Mike
@miketerhar.com

I guess around nine-eleven the standards bodies changed kilo back to 1000 and invented kibibytes. I missed it because I was busy multiplying things by 1024 all day.