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there's physical limit as what algorithms and tricks can do. Their numbers are incredible though.
by vajaya 7y ago
there's physical limit as what algorithms and tricks can do. Their numbers are incredible though.
- wbl 7y agoWhich is exactly my point: no one cares about the absolute number each cloud has. They care about the capacities.
- YjSe2GMQ 7y agoAnd there's much new fun to be had when you have this many servers around. For example - once you start shuffling around tens of petabytes a day you quickly notice that bit flips are very real. Computers do what we tell them to do with incredibly high probability, but it is always below 1.