Learnt lots of fascinating things about how servers are catalogued in data centres today. I learnt that when racks are advertised as “24U”, for example, that “U” refers to “unit”. Saying a device is a 2U means it takes up two units of vertical space. Something taking up “half a rack” means that it’s half ... lmika.org

@lmika Cool! Didn’t know this. If one could come up with a scheme so intricate that if they fire one, they would be guaranteed to be hired one back as a contractor! 😈