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user-inactivated  ·  3396 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: PSA: The difference between kilobyte (KB), kibibyte (KiB), kilobit (kb), and kibibit (kib).

    If you're buying a terabyte hard drive, it will have 10^12 bytes. However, Windows might tell you it has 931.32 GB.

Well, fuck, I woke up today unsure what I would learn and it turned out to be this. Thanks.

I also learned that whales can actually get the bends, but mostly it seems to happen when something screws up their natural processes, like an illness or ... navy sonar.