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Mar 9, 2025 at 00:05
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I really like base-2 prefixes in writing, e.g. 1 KiB, 2 MiB, 3 GiB and so on. It's way more explicit. However, SI units are k M G and so on. Switching between lowercase k and uppercase Ki keeps tripping me up.

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