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The mistake was using the "Kibi" prefix. "Kibibyte" just sounds a bit silly when said out loud.

>>cmovq+(OP)
Does it really matter if it sounds silly?

>>robobr+Q3
Considering it meant people didn't use it, yes.

>>cmovq+(OP)
"Giga" was considered to sound silly until it became common and we no longer care. "Yotta" sounds silly (to me) now.

>>cmovq+(OP)
Actually, it sounds very serious and appropriate.

>>cmovq+(OP)
When I read "KiB" I say "kib" and it's fine. Similar for GiB, TiB, PiB.

"I bought a two tib SSD."

"I just want to serve five pibs."

>>cmovq+(OP)
"mebi" and "gibi" aren't any better, last one in particular if you say it as "jibby-bytes"

>>Symbio+6g
"Tera" always sounded cool though.

>>Symbio+6g
Surely you mean Gibi ;)

>>bloppe+Cj
Studio Kibi

>>cmovq+(OP)
Yes, 2**10 times this, yes.

Call me calcitrant, reactionary, or whatever, but I will not say kibibyte out loud. It's a dumb word and I'm not using it. It was a horrible choice.

>>j2kun+Nj
>"I bought a two tib SSD."

no you didn't, that doesn't exist, you bought 2 trillion bytes, 99 billion bytes short

>>kstrau+du
They should call their stupid SI power-of-10 units kisibyte instead.

>>Symbio+6g
1.21 Gigawatts doesn't sound silly at all!

>>kstrau+du
you'll eat your kibbles & bits and like it !

>>cmovq+(OP)
I usually just say kilobyte when speaking, and say “binary kilobyte” or “decimal kilobyte” if it’s not clear from context. I still (usually, but I forget) use the IEC symbols when I mean binary and the SI symbols when I mean decimal. The extra ‘i’ doesn’t cost that much.

>>aidenn+Y82
Did you mean jigawatts?

>>nacoza+XI2
The Commdore 64 has 64 kibibytes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#Multiple-byte_units

"the C64 took its name from its 64 kilobytes (65,536 bytes) of RAM"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64

>>mmphos+HE3
It has 64 kilobytes. The definition of kilobyte and megabyte (and I presume gigabyte, among people who could afford caring about them) were universally agreed to be binary.