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Re:Old box, dumb code, few thousand connections, no big deal by santoshalper on Thursday May 07, 2020 @11:46PM (#23111211)
So you always get downvoted to hell whenever you post this and you've decided everyone else is the problem? Can you even understand how you sound? I cringed with sympathetic embarrassment just from from reading this. Seriously, rethink your life choices man.

This coming from someone who has literally never written a line of python in his life.

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Re:Old box, dumb code, few thousand connections, no big deal by kragen on Friday May 08, 2020 @01:42PM (#23117404)
"Rethink your life choices" — because they have opinions that are unpopular and they express them anyway? I might not agree with those opinions, but I fail to see how discouraging them from expressing them is in any way good.

People expressing unpopular opinions and defending them with evidence is how we find out when the popular opinion is wrong, and how, when our discourse is functioning properly, we can gradually change the popular opinion to be less wrong. You, and the people downvoting the comment, are throwing a monkey wrench in those works.

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Re:Old box, dumb code, few thousand connections, no big deal by flyinglizard on Friday May 08, 2020 @05:39AM (#23112968)
Trading internet points for potentially helping someone make a better engineering decision is a fair enough deal.
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