[cmovq]

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

[Symbiote]

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

[sippeangelo]

"Tera" always sounded cool though.

[aidenn0]

1.21 Gigawatts doesn't sound silly at all!

[bombcar]

Surely you mean Gibi ;)

[kstrauser]

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.

[ralferoo]

They should call their stupid SI power-of-10 units kisibyte instead.

[nacozarina]

you'll eat your kibbles & bits and like it !

[j2kun]

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."

[fsckboy]

>"I bought a two tib SSD."

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

[cestith]

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.

[jihadjihad]

"mebi" and "gibi" aren't any better, last one in particular if you say it as "jibby-bytes"

[robobro]

Does it really matter if it sounds silly?

[Blackthorn]

Considering it meant people didn't use it, yes.

[bloppe]

Actually, it sounds very serious and appropriate.

[bombcar]

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