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VMs: Imperfect answers to imperfect problems, but they're all we have

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> ... proper binary prefixes: kilo being 1,000, kibi being 1,024; mega being 1,000, mebi being 1,024, and so on.

Those are not proper binary prefixes. They're a magical invention by sales and marketing droids who want their ram/storage sizes to appear bigger than they really are. And they've been pushing it for years, thankfully with mostly only newbies and the general clueless thinking they're legit.

Please don't spread that false crap further, as if they're terms our industry should use.

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