luna the doggie :neofox_snug: :therian: on Nostr: watching some of the prerecorded lectures and a singular "so usually a kilobyte would ...
watching some of the prerecorded lectures and a singular "so usually a kilobyte would be 1000 bytes but in computer science it's 1024 bytes" slide made me irrationally angry
kibibytes exist, the fact that windows lies about what units it's showing and everyone else either doesn't elaborate or tells you to RTFM isn't an excuse!
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