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A lot of things don't make sense to people who don't understand economics.

Anecdotes are not data. I know plenty of farms that do use invisible fences. Dogs have a habit of digging under fences when determined.

Probably because it's pretty obvious that Bitcoin is going to fail.

I wonder what they meant by that. I've heard that Bavaria is the most German state of Germany.

Wrong, anybody who obsesses about anything is a nerd by definition.

> there are no examples of seriously ill paranoid schizophrenics that put out meaningful work.

Utter hogwash. There are countless artists who struggled with schizophrenia and bipolar and produced beautiful, amazing work -- Syd Barrett, Brian Wilson, and Daniel Johnston spring to mind.

You make it sound as if he is the exception that proves the rule.

^ Low-value humblebrag that adds nothing to the conversation.

I should have clarified. I'm not talking about micro-optimizations. Bash doesn't scale operationally. You might be a bash wizard who never fucks up, but you're never going to be able to keep non-wizards from having to use your awful bash codebase.

Bash is not at all meant for "system administration task automation", the very idea is ludicrous. It has to be the most singularly ill-purposed invention ever to be applied towards task automation.

Nobody should be using any shell in prod

You need to fix your mentality. HCL not being a complete language is a feature. Bash is a liability. If you honestly think you can build more reliable modern systems in bash, you deserve to be laughed right back into the 70s where you belong.

Nobody said it couldn't be done, just that it shouldn't. Fun stunt but ultimately suitable only for toys or as a gimmick.

"works"

More like "better the devil you know" (if you can even say that much).

Bash doesn't scale. Every shop larger than 1 has been burned by bash gotchas. Use a real scripting language and shell out to the commands and builtins when necessary.

At my shop bash is strictly disallowed in production environments and we're all better off for it.

Not only is what you're saying irrelevant to my point, you're wrong. "Log ins, shopping baskets" do require a notice if they are persistent, which almost all of them are. Looks like you're the ignorant one here.

Cute, but most of the former British empire (including Britain itself) still uses parts of it.

Sure, whatever you say. One of my bitcoin-addled friends loves to claim this. I left $1000 in an account and gave him the routing and account numbers and welcomed him to take it. He couldn't do it.

You do realize that it's only "obfuscating" if you can't perform basic arithmetic, and that there are several countries that use imperial measurements?

It's not wrong, but it's a real dick move toward the older kids.

Wow, that's really not what music theory is at all. This kind of eggheaded simpletonism is grossly offensive and embarrasses the HN community, not to mention engineers in general. Please, the world outside of STEM is not reducible to a few hand-wavy sentences about physics.