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New comment by danishanish in "Tar Files Created on macOS Display Errors When Extracting on Linux (2024)"

danishanish — Mon, 04 May 2026 03:28:50 +0000

It’s not blunting a tool, it’s sheathing it. Modern software requires too much proxied trust for this attitude to work.

New comment by danishanish in "The RAM shortage could last years"

danishanish — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 22:57:37 +0000

I think I’m missing something. Financially, what bag would the memory makers be holding here? I don’t think I’m well informed regarding how these deals were structured.

New comment by danishanish in "UUID package coming to Go standard library"

danishanish — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 07:26:26 +0000

I think it saves labor and eventual bug hunting to include these in a stdlib. We should not be expected to look up the UUIDv4 spec and make sure you’re following it correctly. This feels like exactly what reasonable encapsulation should be.