asciilifeform: i can give 1 ready example of a plainly palpable win, even for blogs:
asciilifeform: even from 'the code makes internally consistent sense' pov.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: edges into a 'causes and purposes' discussion, dunnit. even if trilema doesn't possibly use any such thing, conceivably it is still the Right Thing
asciilifeform: and which knobs are equiv to DELETE and CHECKOUT
asciilifeform: orig q was , however, re what knobs in traditional http are actually needed, for civilized life
asciilifeform: so in this hypothetical, mircea_popescu's trilema url (or rather, the raw hash underneath it) will only change when he changes his generator.
asciilifeform: asciilifeform's angle is that it is wrong that there is no sane scheme for distinguishing these. and likewise for properly handling the fact that most of what people do with 'dynamic' is really kludge to display bouquets of statics properly
asciilifeform: this goes back to the trinque thread, where he (correctly) observed that 'gimme resource R, find it using hash H' is a separate, conceptually, entity from 'perform command C and return result R'
asciilifeform: imho dynamics oughta have a marked-as-separate form of addressing. e.g. dyn:// .
asciilifeform: the current hack around this is the archiver. but it is a hack.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i'ma uncrate things, take pics, expect a roundup sunday night.☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: opteron in particular is 'nonrenewable resource' whose future price cannot be put in guaranteed bounds. but yes can sell.
asciilifeform: ( i wouldn't plug it in even 1nce, 'to try', without ripping out the flash and bsdizing )
asciilifeform: btw 'edgerouter' comes with unabashed nsa backdoor in the vendor's soft
asciilifeform: this thing, prints little stickers for e.g. bottles
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: was re one of BingoBoingo's catalogues, it literally had a gadget i had on my desk , once obtained for 20bux, listed for 170
asciilifeform: PUT is oddball ancient thing, from before anyone even conceived of adding password or whatnot, 'hey, let's let user PUT items at arbitrary url on remote box' rather like ye olde warez ftp
asciilifeform: but really there's no reason why a server needs unixclone os etc. build small bin with gnat, that knows how to run the nic, has basic ip stack.
asciilifeform: iirc trinque had an actual algo, but not posted yet
asciilifeform: if i want to know which of 10,000,000 files on a remote site changed, there is no fucking reason why i should have to download a list of 10,000,000 hashes, rather than binarysearch.
