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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: (Excessive?) Complexity
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2025 20:56:52 +0000
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On 09/02/2025 10:45, D wrote:
> One of the wins we had when replacing a customers Azure was the 
> realization that they had no need for fancy fail-over, active/active 
> solution or even a DR-site, given the workload they are running.
> 
> That meant we could design our environment to be dead simple and avoid a 
> lot of complexity and keep the cost low.

A consultant once was asked to recommend a computer system for a small 
companies stock control
He said "you have paid me already, so I can be honest. Just buy a card 
file. It will be far cheaper and just as good".
I have friends who tell 'Alexa' what to put on their shopping list, I 
have a pad of paper and a pen by the fridge.
They take a mobile phone to the supermarket, I have a torn off sheet of 
paper...
-- 
I was brought up to believe that you should never give offence if you 
can avoid it; the new culture tells us you should always take offence if 
you can. There are now experts in the art of taking offence, indeed 
whole academic subjects, such as 'gender studies', devoted to it.

Sir Roger Scruton