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MTA-STS really is a drag. Baking in dependencies on a web server and web PKI is a true drag. Such web infrastructure has different operational profiles/modes of resilience that it’…

But that doesn't work if the indentation carries semantic meaning; you can't change the indentation without changing the meaning. Maybe you can correct syntactically-incorrect spac…

Edit: s/economics/ergonomics/

Agreed. DNS is, afaik, the very best naming system we've got. But there's plenty left to do to make it better for human beings. Legally encoded rights to DNS names paired with easy…

Tightly coupling identity to cryptosystems should be entirely dismissed for anything that is supposed to have broad adoption. First off, these systems always require indefinitely-l…

Thanks for trying to summarize. > - you and other guy believe non-technical people can't build technical things because its still too hard and you need to know the technical things…

And I'm glad that works well for you! But this is the context of the thread: >> most people don't need cloud backups > What world do you live in? As put by another commenter: > Mos…

Even just by narrowing to some definition of "product people," you've cut out the vast majority of the population. > Why does someone who says “I pay -$x for Google Drive, how much…

Technical people, maybe. Even if we hypothetically grant that vibe-coded backup systems can be trusted, deploying, using, and maintaining are still hurdles. And there’s absolutely …

Not my area, but isn't it really only because glibc doesn't maintain stable interfaces across versions? If it did, you absolutely could use the same ld.so with different glibc vers…

First of all, techy nerdy people like things to be easy too. They're just somewhat more likely than other people (on average) to overcome not-easiness. Second of all, how long is I…

What Linux distros do you think would exclude on the basis of closed door/cathedral-style development? I’ve never heard of this.

You mean a few customers? Yes, I think that’s perfectly reasonable to expect that changes made to a very expensive product are well-documented for those customers to whom that matt…

This is the first I've heard anyone claim higher throughput for Go than Rust. Any articles you'd point to to learn more?

What's the history and status of ASPA? As far as I can see, it's a fairly active draft with the IETF: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-sidrops-aspa-ver... It says it's o…

Huge fan of jet. It lets you just write SQL, but in your Go. I basically can’t imagine using anything else now. Why is that better than writing plain SQL like in sqlc? My main reas…

> Poor writing is not a new thing, of course. Most of the moderation mechanisms that it uses were perfected a quarter century ago when sites like Slashdot were popular as a defense…

That's definitely the pragmatic choice when working with shell and what roughly everyone does. But it's is also a UX compromise that, if needed anywhere other than the Stockholm Sy…

Tl;dr: Plain text's bad composability forces the dichotomy that you identify between --sort and sort . I agree with you that --sort often can be a sensible UX choice regardless, bu…

Oops, yes, I don't know why I mistyped a question mark. That's exactly what I was wondering, thanks.

There is some cool stuff here. I like using column to format the table. Appending it to alloyed's command fixes their header problem. The stdbuf to multi-command block (term.?) is …

Yes, the point was about doing it in a pipeline. The pipeline is the basis for composition of plain text in the unix shell. If something as basic as sorting a table is hard to do, …

Ooh, I was so hoping someone would take up the challenge! This is a far shorter answer than I had honestly thought was possible. More readable too, somehow? Great use of tee that I…

Great example! How do you like using elvish? Even though I am a proponent of structured data and like PowerShell a lot (mentioned in a nearby comment of mine), I use fish as my reg…

I think you're mistaking text-with-structured data for structured data itself. Because unix shell is irrevocably text-oriented, kludging in something like JSON is basically the bes…