Google Confirms Its Computer Is, In Fact, Big

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The image is a screenshot of a tweet featuring a photo of a modern glass-paneled Google office building. The tweet's text, displayed above the image, reads, 'The Future Is Now: Google Has Confirmed That Its Computer Is Big,' followed by a fictional-looking shortened URL 'clckhl.co/RjleuKa'. The humor is derived from the deadpan, comically simplistic language used to describe a presumably massive technological achievement, such as reaching quantum supremacy. It satirizes the often breathless and over-the-top headlines in tech journalism. For senior engineers, the joke lands by contrasting the immense complexity of modern large-scale computing or quantum mechanics with the most basic, un-technical description imaginable, mocking how these breakthroughs are often communicated to the general public

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Our quantum computer can now solve in 200 seconds what would take a classical supercomputer 10,000 years. Marketing's official statement: 'The computer is big and does math good.'

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Our quantum computer can now solve in 200 seconds what would take a classical supercomputer 10,000 years. Marketing's official statement: 'The computer is big and does math good.'
Anonymous

Tech media: “Google confirms its computer is big.” Engineers: “Yeah, that’s what we call 38 datacenters, a planet-wide Paxos mesh, and atomic clocks pretending the whole Earth is localhost - but sure, let’s go with ‘big.’”
Anonymous

Breaking: After 25 years and $100 billion in infrastructure investment, Google's SRE team finally confirms what we suspected all along - their distributed system spanning 40+ data centers with millions of servers is, technically speaking, 'big'. Next week: Amazon discovers S3 contains files
Anonymous

Google's Willow chip finally achieved quantum supremacy, which means it can now experience all possible states of production bugs simultaneously. Meanwhile, the rest of us are still debugging Schrödinger's race condition - the one that both exists and doesn't exist until you add a print statement
Anonymous

Breaking: Google confirms its computer is big; translation for architects - if Borg schedules across continents and Spanner’s TrueTime makes it look like one machine, PR just calls the whole planet a server rack
Anonymous

Architect TL;DR: Borg + Spanner + Jupiter fabric ~= one warehouse-scale computer; PR translation: “our computer is big.”
Anonymous

Google's ultimate horizontal scaling: when your cluster spans the parking lot and sharding means annexing the next building
@FunnyGuyU 5y

wat?
@anyo822 5y

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@feskow 5y

Google: Big Computer Yandex: Smaller Computer My laptop: Quite a tiny computer that's crazy...
@azizhakberdiev 5y

Whad? It is invalid link
@ArchieWindragon 5y

It's the clickhole, the onions clickbait site
@kandiesky 5y

Big PP energy But not from Google Google is a dick
@Picross3D 5y

Science diagrams that look like shitpost
@CharinAV 5y

Sho?
1. @p4vook 5y
  
  Sho slishal, yak malenkiy. (What you've heard. Why are you like a boy?).
@denisndenis 5y

Chungus