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by throwawaylinux 1345 days ago
> Educate me.

Not sure if I'm being trolled... It finds a remote machine by name, and routes a connection to it. It authenticates and establishes a secure connection with the machine. It sends a command to the remote machine, the remote machine executes it, and the result is returned. It then puts the result into a form that can be used programmatically by the local shell.

> That was a quick response to what I thought would be better than administrating a UNIX system on an Amazon machine.

It was content-free.

> Don't be an ass.

What's good for the goose...

> I've no experience with the real distributed computing systems created before UNIX.

And already the expert. Impressive.

> No, that's the vapid marketing pitch.

No, that's the reality. That's why Amazon, Google, Azure, and everybody else offer it in their clouds and use it on their internal infrastructure.

> The Linux kernel randomly kills processes when it starts exhausting memory. It's garbage.

I'll take that over "running little functions floating in the void", it actually exists and works.

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I'm being trolled by someone who finds a DNS lookup and an encrypted TCP connection to send a textual command to another machine is somehow impressive, rather than entirely basic and, again, unimpressive.

It then puts the result into a form that can be used programmatically by the local shell.

That does sound better than returns one octet with two well-defined values, sure.

And already the expert. Impressive.

I know UNIX is shit with a legion of cultists.

Hey, if we live in the best of all possible worlds, explain the market dominance of Windows. Did MicroSoft give Windows away for nothing, to poor unsuspecting university students who decided to hack on it instead of learn what a real computer is, until none remained?

You seem quite unhinged for a self-proclaimed expert. Maybe it's time for a break from the internet.
It's easy to support the status quo, until someone points out numerous issues with it, I know.

At least read my website before calling me unhinged.

It's even easier to shit on the status quo without having anything better.

> At least read my website before calling me unhinged.

No. I've seen countless tech prophets peddling snake oil over the decades, and it's always the same. Everything is dumb, poorly versed in the state of the art and history, but this magical ill-thought-out thing will somehow solve everything. It's very boring and predictable.