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I just want to serve 5 terabytes.
Benjamin Staffin
A short satirical video, originally titled Broccoli Man, in which an engineer who only wants to serve 5 terabytes gets tangled in Google's internal resource and production processes. It is the source of the phrase about forgetting how to count that low.
Used as a shorthand joke for Google-scale bureaucracy and the difficulty of simple tasks at large companies.
20 Hacker News mentions · 2021–2026