I don't get why you are being downvoted. Are people not familiar with the expression "get out of here" used in a friendly manner? Or do they really downvote you because they think it is so bad that you think that 1kB should be equal to 1000 bytes? I mean, I don't agree with you either but IMO the downvote should only be used for things that are either factually wrong, or which detract strongly from the conversation, or which contribute nothing at all. I think your comment is nice and it does not deserve to be downvoted.

Yeah, apparently downvotes can be used as a "disagree" signal. Usually when I see a comment being unfairly downvoted that way, I upvote as a counter-balance, even if I disagree with the argument (i.e., how many bytes in 1kB).

> (Still sore Apple did not stick to the 1kB = 1000 bytes of the original MacOS and gave in to the "powers of two" insanity ;-)

Actually, Apple switched back to 1kb = 1000 bytes ("back" assuming you're right about the original MacOS) with Snow Leopard back in 2009. [1]

[1] https://blog.macsales.com/1852-snow-leopard-changes-they-way...

Yeah that was great - you could not actually represent real computer resources correctly without 4 decimal places.

When was the last time you bought something that gave you exactly 1073741824 bytes to the gigabyte on the box?

A RAM module?

I do embedded a lot. Everything is powers of two.

Including data transmission?