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.
Because it’s much easier to mistake a number for a somewhat close number than one that is orders of magnitude different…
I’ll try to read the article later but the reality is that HDD manufacturers could help customers disambiguate but that would hurt their bottom line so they don’t.