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ithkuil
4858 days ago
100 million gigabytes = 100 petabytes ~= 88.8 pebibytes
100 million gibibytes ~= 95 pebibytes
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runlevel1
4858 days ago
I see the value of this distinction, but I can't shake the feeling that a word used for years has been co-opted by marketing and replaced with something that sounds silly when spoken out loud.
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