I was a child prodigy who skipped a grade, not dissimilar to Sheldon Cooper, except I was better socialized, and excelled at athletics and was a leader in the Boy Scouts.

I had a real problem getting to sleep at night and waking up in the morning. I would read in bed until late at night and be late in the morning.

At some point in my early 20's I experienced a period of unemployment, and at my doctors advice I started tracking my sleep. We determined that I had a 27 hour biological clock. He said it was unusual, but happened to some people, mostly young men, and that I would grow out of it as I got older. Which didn't really happen, but kind of happened. I have a 24 hour clock but I only sleep 6 hours a night, sometimes less.

Shame on the editor for leaving out the most important piece of information on this story. Before his death, he literally went on a local affiliate news station and stated that if he were to die in the recent months that we should expect he was assassinated. He was warning us.

No. I do not. The polar deserts are becoming valuable real estate. I don't need to persuade anyone of anything. I need to secure property rights, build fences and buy guns to protect my claim from those who clued in late. I'm really just making conversation.

You are creating poverty for no good reason.

You are wrong. There is no evidence to support the assertion that climate change from fossil fuels is rendering the planet less hospitable. If you research the Paleocene Eocine Thermal Maximum, you will see that the opposite is true.

This is really bad for those species. It's reasonable to expect that, in a healthy species, there's going to be a few self-fertilizing mutant freaks born. But, when those self-fertilizing mutant freaks dominate the landscape because insects aren't doing the job and there's empty habitat for the freaks to expand into and dominate, it's inviting a blight to take them all out. And then, there will be very few flowers of the species to reproduce with the bees. There's going to be dramatic change.

They follow a book. Anyone can read it. It's not bigotry or racism to read the book and claim that it defines the people who openly claim to follow it.

They are sickly, inbred xenophobic and antisocial monsters. They believe they are the chosen people of God, and they have two standards of behavior, one for each other and another for Goyim, who have dirty blood and are no better than animals.

They sexually mutilate little boys, they have irrational eating disorders that stem from mental illness, they are predatory loan sharks, and they engage in lies, slander, theft, banditry, fraud, corruption, propaganda, blackmail, assassination, murder and genocide.

They believe that there are two races. The human race, and the Jews.

It's in their book.

Eighty years ago, the Japanese and the Nazis believed they were the master race and wanted to keep themselves inbred and subjugate outsiders. We, as a species, stomped them, and now they are decent, civilized and valued members of the international community.

The Jews haven't been stomped hard enough yet.

I don't consider that relevant. No rational person should. We are still pulling oil out of the ground and burning it. Until we can provide for the energy needs of the human race without burning things, it's foolish to bury plastic and mine coal.

I am not a chemist. But, based on the understanding that I have achieved through my investigation into Russian Stoves aka Thermal Mass Heaters, it should be relatively simple to superheat the off gasses generated by the initial burn in a secondary burn chamber, and produce a system that releases only carbon dioxide and water. Plastic is just hydrocarbons.

I know how to solve the problem of microplastics.

Burn the plastic for energy. It is made of oil. We are still extracting oil for energy. Burning used plastic makes sense. It's like using gasoline to store ketchup and then putting it in your car afterwards.

Wow, show me on the doll where the microservice hurt you...

If you put the country data into a database table, and you at least separate your database servers from your application servers, then you will require a network call to the database server to get the data. If you put it on a file in a volume, its probably network attached storage and again... a network call. The only way that is prevented is by hardcoding the data or deploying it as part of your app resources, which comes with its own set of issues I wont get into.

Your criticism of excessive network utilization and resource wastefulness is equally applicable to other architectures as well. Regardless this problem I would argue is MORE solvable in a microservice architecture in that containerized services more efficiently utilize the infrastructure resources made available to the container hosting platform. It is vastly more scalable to meet system resource needs and is more efficient at that capability. To take it further for seldom updating reference data like Countries for instance, things like Redis caching make all of this a moot point anyway.

The bottom line is that if your example you provided is based on a true story, then I would argue there are more pressing problems in your design than whether or not microservices are used or not.

No one has mentioned the possibility of using RDP to connect to a modern computer running Windows 11.

You can buy a computer that is grunty enough to run mutilple sessions simultaneously, and then use these various machines to which you have become accustomed to act as dumb terminals without having to go to much trouble.

Don't connect them to the internet. Do your web browsing and email and whatnot in the remote session. But, you can run that accounting software you started using in 1998, or your favorite DOS games, or whatever makes you still want to use the old machines locally.

The problem with this is that your "preference" to see people in the office because it makes you "happy" does not justify taking agency and choice away from others. It would be akin to saying that seeing slaves working a plantation is my "preference" so it justifies the robbery of others freedom.