One of the classic videos inside Google was "I just want to serve 5 terabytes of data", satirizing the complexity of doing anything at Google scale. The video features animated characters Panda Woman (trying to serve data) and Broccoli Man (presenting more and more obstacles). I was reminded of this video because I'm at the Phoenix airport and I'm sure that the synthesized announcement voice here is the same as Broccoli Man. I keep expecting an announcement of "Five terabytes is so little that I've forgotten how to count that low."

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