I am aware of the rules re: swipes. I just don't believe it is a swipe to describe running VMs inside kubenetes for an IRC client just to back up logs as "silly

I am aware of the rules re: swipes. I just don't believe it is a swipe to describe running VMs inside kubenetes for an IRC client just to back up logs as "silly" (not "idiotic" as your example implies). It's accurate. This is a a silly/fun article. As for cargo-culting, that's when you implement some complex sequence of operations you've become familiar with hoping to achieve benefits from that complexity even if it has nothing to do with the process implemented. Here's it's done for seemingly self-aware recreation but it is still cargo cult. It is not a serious post or something that anyone would recommend. You know this to be true (if you've read the article). And you'll note the tone of my post was accepting re: different tastes for recreational software stacks. Instead of, "'That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3' can be shortened to '1 + 1 is 2, not 3." It is more like, "That is silly; 100502340243 + 1 is 100502340244 and 100502340244 is a big awkward number. 2 is smaller." ....whereas in your version 1+1 is a normal situation one would actually encounter and recommend and this 100502340243 + 1 is the intrinsic weirdness needing pointing out. Your claimed swipe is actually the argument itself. It's not extraneous.