Very well said. Reminds me of the old adage about /r/crypto “a place where people who don’t believe in financial regulations learn why financial regulations exist”
I would agree with you if we were in 1994 and this was about Rwanda.
Those tower blocks in Gaza that were felled on the anniversary of 9/11 were not taken down with machetes. We have got AI assisted targeting going on, with all of your favourite cloud service providers delivering value to their shareholders thanks to sales to the IDF.
The corporation that once had 'don't be evil' as their mission statement are suckling on the IDF teat along with Amazon, IBM, Microsoft and Cisco.
Israel: Surrender or we'll destroy your city
Hamas: Only if you let us rebuild and prepare the next war
Israel: Starts destroying the city by bombing emptied buildings, these having received warning from Israel beforehand
UN: Oh look, a genocide
This is politics and therefore probably off-topic for hn. It not being tech-related is irrelevant.
An argument could be made that it is an "interesting new phenomenon", but the post is most likely to result in tedious flamewars regardless and so should probably be killed.
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
I generally find HN discussions pretty interesting, but this particular topic seems to just be two groups who have zero chance of changing their minds hurling misinformation and propaganda at each other.
As a seasoned shell programmer, when I see set -euo pipefail, I know immediately that low quality code “batched list of commands”-type code follows.
It’s bad code smell and an anti-pattern as far as I’m concerned. Anyone who has actually has taken the time to learn POSIX/BASH shell to any degree or complexity knows that it’s fully capable of catching errors in-band and that a .sh file isn’t just a dumping ground for repeating your shell history.
> a .sh file isn’t just a dumping ground for repeating your shell history
Maybe it should be? As fun as it can be to write complex software in these legacy Turing tarpits, results aren't that great no matter how hard we try. Makefiles are another example.
Edit: Thought this was a private blog but it’s actually an ad for “magecdn” as far as I can tell. Original comment regardless:
> With a traditional CDN, if you set cache-control header, you can be sure that your files will be cached on the edge according to the header.
I’ve got a decade and a half of experience with Fastly, Akamai, and CloudFlare serving 100s of gigabits/sec of traffic. I can assure you this is not true at all. Cache-Hit ratio and Cache-Hit/Miss access time are highly situational and cache-control is best effort for every provider. No CDN will guarantee these values.
> With a traditional CDN, you can pick a hostname (Origin) and the file will be fetched from there. So, you can run a CDN directly over, say, a S3 Cloud bucket. Cloudflare works at your website domain level, and doing this is something like that is not possible.
“Cloudflare works at your website domain level.” This is poorly written, confusing, and fortunately, not at all true. You can CNAME i.example.com to an S3 bucket hostname and use i.example.com links on example.com. This also comes with some http/1.1 pipelining advantages and is a preferable way to architect.
What people are missing in this debate is that the need to be “contrarian” for some people stems from correction OCD. It’s not that your friend is “trying to be different” or “craves attention”—-it’s that they have a compulsive tic like biting their fingernails. Shaming them doesn’t fix their underlying disorder, it just makes you a bad friend to this person. Accept that they have this limitation (in your eyes) and learn to ignore it the same way you would with somebody living with Tourettes syndrome.
Nah. A friend with OCD isn’t constantly telling me I’m wrong about everything I say. Being around active contrarians (code phrases: “as the devil’s advocate”, or “yes, but actually…”) is freaking exhausting. It imposes a lot of psychic weight. A true friend will tell you your wrong when you’re being wring, but isn’t going to feel the need to lecture you about the difference between teal and cyan if you make a slip of the tongue about a random car’s color.
It’s not my job in life to be everyone’s personal therapist, for free, at the expense of my own sanity. I’d rather hang around with people who don’t make me wince and brace for their “correction” every time we talk.
I don't think it's really good advice to just assume people have OCD. Like sure, if a friend tells me they do I will believe them but it's not going to be something I'm just going to assume is true and I don't think that is a very kind approach in the long run.
