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Kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes (waspdev.com)
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[–] brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

I always still use powers of 2 for everything. Even though I can have any hdd size I want with virtualization, I still do it as power of 2.

For anything consumer facing marketing, sure it's 1000. But it just makes sense to keep programming with 1024.