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Why a kilobyte is 1000 and not 1024 bytes
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this post was submitted on 27 Dec 2023
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TLDR: old person went back to school and reads faster than younger people, thinks younger people don't know how to read quickly.
Bit ironic that you don't seem to have read my comment properly.
Firstly, you missed the caveat about the example used being anecdotal.
Then you seem to have missed the bit about reports suggesting functional literacy is decreasing.
A quick google:
https://hechingerreport.org/americas-reading-problem-scores-were-dropping-even-before-the-pandemic/
https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-why-reading-comprehension-is-deteriorating/
That's the joke, but ok.