Princess Bride

So dull, nothing funny, no redeeming feature

Trust what? Many scientists will quite justifiably have completely opposing views (do vaccines cause autism for example).

I hear what you’re saying, but horizontal scaling also gives you improved reliability too, which is good for individual instances.

I for one would happily horizontally scale an instance I was running (which I am not for now) on my K8s lab. Why? Because I can and because I like it!

Not really no.

The process of “embrace, extend and extinguish” has been used multiple times to destroy FLOSS projects from the inside.

Of the top of my head:

• Kerberos
• Office formats
• XMPP

I’ve just got back from a run so my brain is not fully connected, so others can give other examples.

Meta do not want to join the party for fun. They want to join because it is the only way they can smother it.

Or the Prodigy, who relied almost entirely on samples yet made some of the most exciting music we had ever heard.