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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.

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[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 105 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (23 children)

A lot of people are replying as if OP asked a question. It's a link to a blog post explaining why a kilobyte is 1000 and not 1024 bytes (exactly as the title says!). OP knows the answer, in fact they know it so well they wrote an extensive post about it.

Thank you for the write up! You should re-check the spelling and grammar as some sections had some troubles. I have a sentence I need to go to the post to get, so let me edit this later!

Edit: the second half of this sentence is a mess: "The factors don’t solely consist of twos, but ten are certainly lot of them." Otherwise nothing jumped out at me but I would reread it just in case!

[–] wischi@programming.dev 7 points 11 months ago

Thank you very much. I'll try to fix that sentence later. I'm not a native speaker so it's not always obvious for me when a sentence doesn't sound right even though I pass sentences I'm not sure about through spell checks, MS Word grammar check and chat gpt 🤣

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