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I love pieces like this. They're great programmer sociology if such a field existed.


Will AI change this? If AI can assess who is good for us, then we can get somewhere


It will undoubtedly make it worse. Products don't work well because of the lack of understanding and time spent on the products. "AI" only widens the gap and increases lack of understanding.


It will make everything even more disposable than it is today. Products will be cheap and they will last a few months before breaking.


Two years ago, this comment would have asked whether Blockchain will change this.

I wonder what it'll say two years from now.


I mean, maybe? Why can’t you tell us? Any opinion on it?

Sorry about the metacommentary but it’s a bit tiring with every third thread having the same stock question: Is this made irrelevant by AI?/Does AI [magically] solve this problem?

They all at the same time strongly hint that yes, AI will <panacea>. But they still don’t take any stance or make any contribution themselves!


All you're doing is creating a new spec that's not JSON. JSON has no comments. Your spec does. Your parsers handle both specs.

https://xkcd.com/927/ applies


I had to double take back to HN that this wasn't some super custom website pulling my name out of cookies.


CSV is great because excel can import it, but it can't import USV, so at that point, why use USV when you can use JSON?

https://github.com/tyleradams/json-toolkit/


Maybe their objective in submiting to the ietf is to get programs like Excel to start supporting it.


That’s… not how Excel/Microsoft works.


Yes you're exactly right.


Can you not customize the separators used when importing csv-likes into excel? Libreoffice has a neat little window for it that even shows a preview of what values go into which cells.


Sure if you want to stop and fiddle with Excel.

If you want to just double click and get to work, no.


Seems like the corporations are criminally negligent for leaking customer info. What if the best way to stop swatting was to go after them?


Shouldn't we go after the people actually committing the crime? Swatting does not occur because of corporations. It occurs because a few people abuse the emergency response system. The fix is to punish people who abuse the system. Preferably with long jail sentences.


Let's do both. There's two crimes:

1 - Giving away info without consent

2 - The crime of abusing police resources.


I'd argue the police are also depriving people of rights, a third crime.



> Also note that this approach generalizes to other text-based formats. If you have 10 gigabyte of CSV, you can use Miller for processing. For binary formats, you could use fq if you can find a workable record separator.

You can also generalize it without learning a new minilanguage by using https://github.com/tyleradams/json-toolkit which converts csv/binary/whatever to/from json


https://github.com/tyleradams/json-toolkit

Convert json <-> xml, csv, yaml, logfmt

So to support all formats, you write a binary <-> json converter.


Having used m4 in practice, it's easier to get the job done with a custom python script.


Having operated infrastructure that predated most modern templating systems, I remember with some amusement m4 based routing config generation that required recursive macros taking many minutes and gb of memory because there is no way to pass by reference or lazy evaluate.


More pythonbell!


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