puffyvolvo

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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 the ability to continue using it if they really really want to seems like a sane option?

puffyvolvo

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> 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 novelty of breaking shit and feeling smart about fixing it.

puffyvolvo

5 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

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 trees is more maintenance, you've already pointed out how terrible maintenance can be, and lawns alone are an incredible example of just how inefficient we handle plants in the name of some arbitrary aesthetic, tons of water wasted, many hours spent trimming things to some ideal size that turns out to be terrible for the plant itself, etc.

Of course my paranoia doesn't ignore cool pavements either; the reflectivity does bring some mild worries: some skyscrapers are known to cause large amounts of concentrated reflective heat, but those are due to the more mirror-like reflective properties of glass rather than the diffusive matte grey/whites of these pavements. I also worry about visibility, could we end up having a "snow blindness" effect? Would driving be affected as the harsh unnatural dark contrast of a typical road is very easy to spot compared to...everything else. I'm ofcourse aware not all roads are this black but you can't deny bright yellows and whites of road markers on a deep black road would be easier to pick up on than on a greyish road.

puffyvolvo

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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 of computing the further back in time you go.

puffyvolvo

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> 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 those bits are usually abstracted away still. otherwise cross-compatability or migrating to a different stack becomes a massive pain.

> The simple fact of using http2 might change your organisation from one fat file served from a CDN, into many that load in parallel and quicker.

others have pointed out things like h2push specifically, that was kind of what i meant with the "(much)" in my original comment. Even then with something like nginx supporting server-push on its end, whatever its fronting could effectively be http/2 unaware and still reap some of the benefits. I imagine it wont be long before there are smarter methods to transparently support this stuff.

puffyvolvo

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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 abstracted away with some models effectively pretending to act like older ones to ship them out faster (commercial pilots have to be certified per plane iirc, so more familiar plane = quicker recertification), which has led to a couple disasters recently as the 'emulation' isn't exact. this is still a huge net benefit as larger planes are far more complicated than a little cessna and much harder to control with all that momentum, mass, and airflow.

puffyvolvo

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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 you can write a webapp without caring (much) about if its being served over https, http/2, or SPDY.

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