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It does when it's causing excessive load on upstream from users who think what is effectively an outright broken configuration is supported. Preventing footguns and providing users…

> You don't get to tell your users how to use your project. Sure I guess but "don't footgun yourself" is pretty different. But I guess some people just like using linux for the nov…

While I initially would prefer the idea of more street trees the nagging voice in the back of my head continues to worry about unintended consequences. A big one regarding more tre…

This was the funniest point in that comment to me. Read the intended way, it's borderline wrong. Read as "remember when people assumed security without knowing" is basically most o…

> knowing something about MTUs isn't that why MTU discovery exists? > Write your software to take advantage of the platform it's on, and the stack beneath it sure, but usually thos…

most pilots probably don't know how any specific plane's engine works further than what inputs give what outcomes and a few edgecases. larger aircrafts have most of their functions…

abstractions layers exist for this reason. as much of a sham as the 7-layer networking model is, it's the reason you can spin up an http server without knowing tcp internals, and y…