Red Hat should switch to Zig.

But Red Hat and Rust just Roll off the tongue

Or Red Hat and Red Lang [0]

[0] https://www.red-lang.org/

They should have just offered a way to make it write text log files.

I have a prototype FUSE filesystem which renders the journal as a tree of .log files (https://github.com/awfulcooking/journalfs)

But my muscles finally learned `journalctl` and after reading the docs I mainly use it.

Patches welcome to make journalfs practical (i think it may be lagging output when you `tail -f` atm)

Would love to see systemd offer a virtual filesystem interface by default.

An OS has a lot of things to be done downstream of the kernel in userspace.

Having one interface to them is useful.

i respect the BSD hacker style, minimal init ethos.

But man is it handy to have declarative sandboxing in service files.

`loginctl` as a standard for listing, locking, killing user sessions.

`machinectl` as a container / virtual machine manager.

And --host / --machine to remote all of the above.

I had a conversation with someone who was religiously homophobic on HN recently.

Their mind probably wasn't changed, but having civil discourse about intolerance is important.

I'd much rather see a racist post with thoughtful dissent (which the OP can then read, and is pretty much guaranteed on HN) than for racists to just get excluded, and have no cause to change their mind.

They then go to a more extreme forum, with people who only agree with them. The hate gets amplified instead of dissuaded.

** lie

[it's Ruby Tui, the New Zealand Rugby Union player, grid of photos heading]

Maybe it's like "low serotonin levels" is to depression. A mechanism through which some effects are expressed, but not the root cause, and only one aspect of the condition.

Looks like 'Comet' got coined in 2006. The CGI:IRC approach.. I had a smile and an "aha" on seeing the term "forever frames" :-)

I think the wiki page is wrong that it involved chunked encoding

Woah! I completely and entirely forgot the term "forever frame" existed.

Another term you don't see too often these days is the "holy grail" layout. I definitely remember the days of messing with negative margins and clearfix to get my page layouts to look nice while still working in IE 6 :)

Me too :-D

I think you're right that Comet refers more to the JavaScript techniques that came from those "forever frames".. but to me it was all about the streaming HTTP hack at the heart of it.

I guess it's academic now :-)

Regarding holy grail layout and IE6.. so you're telling me you're a masochist!

The broader technique became known as Comet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_(programming)

CGI:IRC used an early frame approach, no JS required.

At some point JSONP became popular, even for 3rd party APIs.

  <script src="http://dont-xss-me/please?format=jsonp&callback=lol">

Server writes:

  lol({ ... })

  lol({ ... })