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> I've been using GitHub for other projects and for the life of me I can't see a single area where its better. Triggering github actions manually is way, way cleaner. Also the pipe…

That meme started in early 2007 I believe. I started in 2006 and was in ZRH by 2008 and it was around long before I made that move.

There is confusion here because Greenland is not part of the EU directly (they were, they left) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_and_the_European_Uni... Its citizens are mem…

Yeah.. I have a five letter email that's a common first and last name @ gmail.com. I second everything you said. Getting report hits every few days are useless given how few sites …

My former company would send out rewards as a thank you to employees. It was basically a “click here to receive your free gift!” email. I kept telling the security team that this w…

yea I totally missed the CDU. I thought this was a project I had talked with a hardware person about a few years ago where there was no intermediate transfer and when I read the ar…

> > CDUs exchange heat between coolant liquid and the facility-level water supply. Oh interesting I missed that when I went through in the first pass. (I think I space bared to pas…

It has not been true for a LONG time. That was part of Google early “compute unit” strategy that involved things like sealed containers and such. Turns out that’s not super efficie…

> The part that is new is not having an air-interface in the middle of the cycle. I wasn’t clear when I was writing but this was the point I was trying to make. Heat from the chip …

[I am not a current Google Employee so my understanding of this is based on externally written articles and “leap of faith” guestimation] Yes. A supply and return line along with p…

[bri3d pointed out that I missed an element of this. There is a transfer between rack level and machine level coolant which makes this far less novel than I had initially understoo…

As somebody that worked on Google data centers after coming from a high performance computing world I can categorically say that Google is not “re-learning” old technology. In the …

… isn’t that basically what CentOS did in the early days?

Its worth calling out that abstractions can kill you in unexpected ways with go. Anytime you use an interface it forces a heap allocation, even if the object is only used read only…

I wrote a tool to handle micro blobs specifically because we were being heavily rate limited by S3 for both writes and reads. We got about 3k/s per bucket before S3 rate limiting s…

My brother used to own .com and wrote on it a bunch. Eventually he bailed out and let it expire. It turned into a porn site for a few years and now its for sale for like $2k from s…

If they try make sure you assert that you do not consent to searches, and would like to be on your way.. Then when they try to hold you ask them if the detention is inline with `Ro…

I dealt with the Twitter office move stuff and there was a real honest to goodness push to get is to love to an office in South San Francisco so we could avaint the payroll tax and…

My last five or so takeout runs just failed with no reasoning why. When I try to save to google drive it just fills up the 2TB storage allocation I have without ever making actual …

yep.. And it would split uploads across dozens of accounts with parity so that if any account was disabled it could re-create the data from what was in the other accounts. (think b…

libgmail was the least of our problems. There was a Polish software team that wrote a bittorrent layer on top of Gmail. That thing was a pain in the butt as they constantly improve…

Pre-AI we had a system that watched user patterns and would identify possibly suspect patterns that were outside of the norm. We also had system that would content-id the images an…

I was apparently not watching this well enough, sorry for the delayed response. Deliver was because we ran the SMTP and queuing infrastructure at the time. We started as Gmail SRE,…

And Gmail and Google groups, and Google drive, and Gchat, on and on. The data you store doesn't even have to be public. With Gmail they would distribute credentials to log in and r…