It's amazing how people complain about GCP. We run a massive deployment across 100+ regions cross-cloud GCP, Azure, AWS and oh boy. GCP has good support if you are big enough. Azure though which has a much bigger share than GCP is horrendous. Absolutely garbage all around. Good luck ever getting anyone in Engineering even if you are paying for support. AWS on the other hand - Amazing. We have Ent Support so those guys in our slack channel. The TAMs are amazing. Need to get hold of someone in Route53 no problem they are on the call this week. Feature request for EKS - ok talk to the Product Manager this afternoon.
Can you give Azure specifics, as you know Azure has a massive offering.
My experience has been the opposite though not without issues, Azure has some of the best corporate and security features of any cloud and it's only getting better. The zero trust model fits in so nicely with their identity platforms it's a sight to behold compared to other cloud providers which likely use some form of AAD or AD DS anyway.
Their support is responsive and they seem to know what they're talking about. (AKS)
Azure has had repeated, significant security failures that impact numerous customers. I don't understand how anyone can defend their security except through willful ignorance.
I have friends forced to use Azure and they routinely report issues with provisioning resources, things taking a very long time to spin up or simply being rejected because Azure doesn't have any capacity.
A memorable example is when we ran a heavy Azure Functions workload on our App Service Plan, the hosts would devour themselves.
Functions use containers under the hood. Each invocation created a new container, and when enough of them ran long enough, the host disk would fill up. (Pretty sure our workload wrote almost nothing to disk.)
An internal Azure disk clean-up routine kicked in, which deleted image layers for running Functions. This deleted the filesystems for containers that were still running, yanking them out from underneath the running processes. It also meant the host couldn't launch new instances of our Functions.
At this point the host was poisoned and couldn't launch any new work, even after the workload was reduced, It had to be terminated and replaced, after we detected the problem manually.
Azure support never weemed to take the problem seriously, and after we migrated our workload off of Functions they decided the problem must be resolved since we weren't complaining anymore.
Just use AL2023 aka Fedora LTS. 2 years of updates and 5 years of maintenance. That is exactly what everyone wants. Long term support and more frequent updates.
If we are to be mothered, mother must know best. . . . In every age the men who want us under their thumb, if they have any sense, will put forward the particular pretension which the hopes and fears of that age render most potent. They ‘cash in.’ It has been magic, it has been Christianity. Now it will certainly be science. . . . Let us not be deceived by phrases about ‘Man taking charge of his own destiny.’ All that can really happen is that some men will take charge of the destiny of others. . . . The more completely we are planned the more powerful they will be.
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. Their very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be ‘cured’ against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.
—C. S. Lewis, God in the Dock
A key question is what emboldened the politicians to propose such bill? It seems the constituents of the law makers have been getting more and more complacent when it comes to giving the government unchecked power, as long as there is a "good" narrative.
Note that EU has made a similar power grab[1]. This means that whatever has emboldened the two is not nation-specific. Now compare this with the recent Schwab's rhetoric on WEF.
At 62 WC in Chile he scored and assisted against Mexico in the first game and then got hurt in the game against the Czechs and sat out the rest of the tournament. He did get a winner's medal so technically you are correct.
In 1970 he played with arguably the greatest team of all time.
He also played most his life for Santos in a shit farmer's league. His 1000 goal record is also suspect. He was surrounded by great players
> Without Pele football might not be popular as it's today.
That' laughable.
Maradona, Cryuff, Messi far superior for a number of reasons.
Maradon - went to Napoli and won. They never won anything before or since. Naples against Italy in 1990 was the only time the Argentinian anthem didn't get booed. And they were playing against the hosts. 86 he took a shit squad all the way. Single handedly.
Cryuff - WC, Barca, Total Football.
Messi - If it hadn't been for a certain Gonazalo Higuain or Placios he would be sitting w/ 2 winners medals. The consistency over almost 2 decades is unreal. Again took a shit Argentina squad all the way and beat one of the tournament favorites.
Please be careful about expressing strong opinions about things you apparently know little about.
> At 62 WC in Chile he scored and assisted against Mexico in the first game and then got hurt in the game against the Czechs and sat out the rest of the tournament. He did get a winner's medal so technically you are correct.
Pele may have been injured early, but his performance in their first games are still important. If they lost those games, they would have been kicked out of the tournament early.
> In 1970 he played with arguably the greatest team of all time.
Doesn't diminish his contributions. He was a key part of what made that team "great".
> He also played most his life for Santos in a shit farmer's league. His 1000 goal record is also suspect. He was surrounded by great players
Of all the tired arguments people make to detract from Pele's accomplishments, this one rankles me the most. There was nothing "shit" about the Brazilian league at that time, and it had nothing to do with farmers. To claim otherwise is to betray a complete lack of any knowledge of football history. The South American leagues were actually the most competitive at that time. Their teams met and demolished Europeans club teams regularly. And the national team composed of players from this "shit farmer's" league was able to win the world cup 3 times within 12 years. Must have been some special "farmers."
You also contradict yourself. He played in a "shit" league, and yet he was surrounded by "great" players from that same league?
His more than 1000 goals are all attested to by FIFA. I'm not sure what is "suspect" about them.
> 86 he took a shit squad all the way. Single handedly.
The Argentina team of 86 was a shit squad without Maradona? I suggest you do do some proper research. I should probably stop here. The whole of your comment is an emotional outburst devoid of any real logic.
> Please be careful about expressing strong opinions about things you apparently know little about.
Yeah looks like you know next to nothing about what you speak.
> Pele may have been injured early, but his performance in their first games are still important. If they lost those games, they would have been kicked out of the tournament early.
Right. You are a joke. The one game he played was what won Brazil the WC that year. In 62 it was Garrincha who took Brazil to the promised land. Benezema has a winners medal too btw.
Yeah I stand by the shit league comment. They didn't even have proper record keeping so the 1200+ goals is a bad claim. He was surrounded by great players at the WC Jairzinho, Gérson, Tostão, Rivelino in 1970.
You are comparing that to Burucchaga and Voldano. Lol. I sincerely hope you bring more rigor to your day job.
> His more than 1000 goals are all attested to by FIFA.
Lol. Pelé included goals scored in friendlies or matches against semi-professional or even amateur teams. These facts are not even in dispute
> Right. You are a joke. The one game he played was what won Brazil the WC that year. In 62 it was Garrincha who took Brazil to the promised land. Benezema has a winners medal too btw.
He played two games, not one game as you claim (a factual error). He also actually played, and scored, unlike Benzema. And, as I said, if they lost the games he played in, they would have been kicked out. You have addressed none of these facts, and have resorted to name calling and ad-hominem attacks.
> Yeah I stand by the shit league comment. They didn't even have proper record keeping so the 1200+ goals is a bad claim. He was surrounded by great players at the WC Jairzinho, Gérson, Tostão, Rivelino in 1970.
So if it was a shit league how come players in that league won the world cup 3 times in 12 years? All his goals are well attested to (do your research), I'm not sure what you mean by lack of proper record keeping.
> He was surrounded by great players at the WC Jairzinho, Gérson, Tostão, Rivelino in 1970.
Please read my earlier comment in reply to this argument of yours.
> You are comparing that to Burucchaga and Voldano. Lol. I sincerely hope you bring more rigor to your day job.
Hmmm, Valdano for example, won the UEFA cup with Real Madrid in 1986, scoring twice in the final. He also scored several important goals (4 in all) in the world cup that year. If that is a mediocre player then Pele's team-mates were also mediocre.
> Pelé included goals scored in friendlies or matches against semi-professional or even amateur teams. These facts are not even in dispute.
They are still goals, no? They are all certified by FIFA. You claimed they are "suspect", the implication being that they are somehow not genuine or falsified.
> Christ, you are not even wrong.
Indeed, I am not wrong because I am arguing based on facts, not irrational emotion.
Yikes! You can't post like this here, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are. We ban accounts that do this.
I don't want to ban you, and since we haven't warned you before, it seems fair to ask you to fix this first. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting to HN, we'd appreciate it.
I believe your comment violates the site guidelines. Not having any proper arguments is one thing, but resorting to personal attacks is another altogether.
I agree. But.. a) despite all the valid criticisms, Pele was still a great of his generation. Players like him, Distefano, etc where ahead of their time and helped modernize football. Respect.
B) Messi did not take a shit team to wc glory, the 2014 team had the best defense of the tournament and players like Mascherano, Dimaria, Kun, etc where hardly shit. They where just simply unlucky with injuries (kun, dimaria, higuan all not 100%) and the missed opportunities in the final by the whole front line, including Messi.
This 2022 team had a record two year unbeaten run with 3 major trophys (copa, wc, continental). That is hardly a shit team, its the opposite.
Maradonas 1990 final run WAS a shit team, and he did it with a broken ankle.
