This whole buildout is one of the largest construction projects ever - there will definitely be oversupply hotspots even for items that are in super short supply. I could easily imagine $1B+ of top-tier chips just sitting around in a warehouse for months on end because of difficult planning problems. That's not a sign of any sort of crisis.
It's ironic that the Internet was designed to accommodate nuclear war and we still decided to consolidate so much critical infrastructure onto monoliths.
SMTP is a protocol designed back when machines might connect once a day to exchange email. It was designed to work during intermittent connectivity, queue messages, and recover gracefully. We instead decided we like instant rather than reliable by putting all our emails in one basket and then forgot that it doesn't have to be that way.
I love this story and that they kept the wabi-sabi :-)
Missing NYC and this reminds me of NYI back in the day (still there perhaps) and operating datacenters in the heart of Manhattan before things changed.
I like that they're keeping the metal close to the traders actually and I'd be totally aligned with that decision. I am surprised however that they haven't shifted to Halon fire extinguishers or something that is safe(r) for a data center.
I'm old enough to remember in NYC when people knew the number of their local car service and that tools like Uber were 'dumb' because how could they compete with something that was already so simple ...
We've banned this account. Please stop registering accounts to break the guidelines with. It's such a pointless waste of everyone's time. Find something useful to do, really.
You could easily imagine structural issues driving this. It's pretty unsatisfying to get refused for something that 'should' be handled and also to be dinged for doing something dangerous. You see this stuff in human organizations all the time.
Yeah this is the real issue. Ironically Nespresso pods are probably more environmentally friendly even if thrown in the trash and not recycled because the real environmental burden comes from the coffee itself and those pods are highly efficient in terms of how little coffee is consumed per shot.
I still drink coffee regularly so am not going to say people should stop doing what I continue to do but it's worth it for coffee drinkers to be thoughtful about the impact of their consumption.
Apparently producing coffee beans for one large coffee uses 140kg of water. Ok, that sounds like a lot.
But also apparently producing one meal worth of chicken takes 700kg of water. Over 3000kg of water for beef. So I think, in comparison, coffee water use if negligible.
I would hope writing C code for the Linux kernel qualifies you as a real C programmer. And yet, here we are. Being good, careful, and extensively reviewed by others helps, but is clearly not enough.
I'm interested in knowing more about the company itself. How many people is/was it? Were they working all in an office together or local-remote, or fully globally distributed? Was the focus massive scale, or ultra-low latency (for agent iteration), or agent-first (but human in the loop) usecases that could be enabled by having core control of a git service and the wrappers around it?
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