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quotemstryesterday at 6:43 PM1 replyview on HN

To be honest, I think the power-ten SI people might have won the war against the power-two people if they'd just chosen a prefix that sounded slightly less ridiculous than "kibibyte".

What the hell is a "kibibyte"? Sounds like a brand of dog food.


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kstrauseryesterday at 8:47 PM

I genuinely believe you're right. It comes across like "the people who are right can use the disputed word, and the people who are wrong can use this infantile one".

I don't know what the better alternative would have been, but this certainly wasn't it.

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