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If you're the only person who works in the rack, no problem. I worked as a tech and wired up machines once upon a time, ran fiber to core infrastructure, was bo
by devin 5y ago
If you're the only person who works in the rack, no problem. I worked as a tech and wired up machines once upon a time, ran fiber to core infrastructure, was boots on the ground for any physical access to the rack that was required, etc. I would not be surprised to hear a story of someone counting from 1 from the back of the rack and unplugging machine "7" or something.
- dnautics 5y ago> If you're the only person who works in the rack, no problem. It's still likely bad. Your brain is simply not wired to zero index physical objects.
- FabHK 5y agoWhich makes sense, as there can't be "negative" objects, mostly. Building floors are more ambiguous - there can be basement, ie "negative" floors. So, floors in continental Europe are generally indexed 0-based (basements ..., -2, -1, ground floor = 0, upper floors 1, 2, ...). A German friend of mine caused some confusion when she checked into her student dorm at a US college, and having being told that her room was on the first floor, asked whether there was an elevator, as she had heavy suitcases.
- skydhash 5y agoIn French, the first floor is called "Rez-de-chaussée" and the uppers are what called "Etage". So it's actually 1 based.
- FabHK 5y agoBut the etage above the Rez-de-chaussée is 1, correct? The Rez-de-chaussée then is 0. That is 0-based indexing. US D F 3 2 2 2 1 1 __1__0__RdC B1 -1 je ne sais pas
- skydhash 5y agoThere is no Etage 0. People will just confusingly look at you if you ever said that. And the "Je ne sais pas' is called "Sous-sol"
- scraptor 5y agoYou can have multiple basement levels, which get numbered again. 1er Sousl-sol, 2eme Sous-sol etc. The ground floor might not be explicitly labeled as zero but the number between "one up" and "one down" is still zero.
- gwhl 5y agoIn a lot of elevators rez-de-chaussée is labelled 0. We just don't use that when communicating