locknitpicker

> Every corpse advances the cause of a just end to the war. If they want to live they ought to surrender. You clearly haven't been paying attention. Not only is Russia luring immigrants with f…

> You do know that data centers use backup generators because electricity is a single point of failure right? How many times do you account for the existence of backup generators in a data center w…

> Your electricity to servers IS a single point of failure, if all you do is depend upon the power company to reliably feed power. I think you quite didn't got the point. The whole point is th…

> "My architecture depends upon a single point of failure" is a great way to get laughed out of a design meeting. This is a simplistic opinion. Claiming services like Cloudflare are model…

> The fact that nobody did - or just verbally complained without action - is evidence that they didn't really suffer. What an utterly clueless claim. You're literally posting in a thread …

> Maybe worlds can just live without the internet for a few hours. The world can also live a few hours without sewers, water supply, food, cars, air travel, etc. But "can" and "shoul…

> you are a customer of Cloudflare, and not happy, I encourage you to evaluate other providers more to your liking. I think your take is terribly simplistic. In a professional setting, virtually a…

> When you tell people their problem isn't real, (...) Their problems might be real, but they sure are not caused by immigration. The Trump administration boasts about having deported 1M immig…

> Do I want to deal with what Cloudflare offers? I do not, I have higher value work to focus on. I want to pay someone else to deal with this, and just like when cloud providers are down, it'l…

> There’s no other deployment system available. Hindsight is always 20/20, but I don't know how that sort of oversight could happen in an organization whose business model rides on reliab…

> Yeah, I don't want to be uncharitable, but I've noticed that a lot of stem fields make heavy use of esoteric language and syntax, and I suspect they do so as a means of gatekeeping. I t…

> Not sure where you heard this but general sentiment is the opposite. My personal experience and anecdotal evidence is in line with this hypothesis. Using the likes of Microsoft's own Copilot…

> Well I'm still waiting. Your second paragraph seems to contradict the first. Which perfectly encapsulates the issue with hiring. Too afraid to try new things, so instead add beuracracy to le…

> I don’t know why people are so hesitant to just fire bad people. "Bad" is vague, subjective moralist judgement. It's also easily manipulated and distorted to justify firing compete…

> I must ask once again why we are having these 5+ round interview cycles and we aren't able to filter for qualities that the work requires of its talent. Hiring well is hard, specially if com…

> Part of the challenge (and I don't have an answer either) is there are some juniors who use AI to assist... and some who use it to delegate all of their work to. This is not limited to junio…

> It also has TypeScript which pairs well with agentic coding loops, (...) I've heard that TypeScript is pretty rough on agentic coding loops because the idiomatic static type assertion code e…

> So the team is joining cloudflare...? That's not a given as well. An acquisition usually involves restructuring the acquired company, sometimes in a way where the original team ceases to exi…

> I think you are confusing what I am saying. I am saying the rest of the semantics are the same, other than the body. This is fundamentally wrong. The semantics are not the same, regardless of whe…

> There are so many factors involved in that that attributing it to just investment in higher education and GI bill is a gross oversimplification, so is previous post's attribution of the drop…

> There's nothing holding you back implementing the QUERY method right now - HTTP methods are standardized, but not limited to the standard. I think this comment is terribly naive. Technically…

> Outright wrong. You are allowed to handle POST requests in a safe and idempotent way. You clearly have no idea about what you are discussing. The definition of HTTP verb semantics clearly defines…

> When America was truly at the top of the world in the 1950s and 1960s, it was under 10%. A high fraction of college attendance is better correlated with the 21st century decline in America's…

> A QUERY seems to be no more than a POST that documents it is idempotent. This is false. By design QUERY is both safe and idempotent. In the context of HTTP, safe means "read-only", wher…

> If you look at the summary table, the only difference between a GET and a QUERY is that the query can have a body. Other than that, they have the exact same characteristics and purpose, so there …

> Making GET requests have bodies as the norm would also handle this The RFC is pretty clear that no participant in a HTTP request is expected to even allow a GET request through. RFC 9110 even sta…

> As inefficient as encoding everything into the URI is, I really enjoy being able to bookmark and share specific filter configuration. That is perfectly fine. Sites that support path- and query-ba…

> With HTTPS used almost everywhere, using this QUERY method (when standardized) could prevent bookmarking specific “GET” URLs if the developers thoughtlessly replace GET everywhere with QUERY. You…

> I have come across systems that use GET but with a payload like POST. I think that violates the HTTP spec. RFC 9110 is very clear that content sent in a GET request cannot be used. Even if both c…