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See also Tom Scott on a different perpetual bond:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfSIC8jwbQs

* Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_bond


> If JMAP is to be successful, having support in Thunderbird is a must have first step. It's not helpful if the same party that provides the mail service provides the frontend as well.

And if you're going to fund development, also put it in Dovecot.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dovecot_(software)

It does seem to be in Cyrus, but I'm not sure what the marketshare of that software is nowadays:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_IMAP_server

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_mail_servers


> It would make so easier and reliable to have a single client that works really well across personal and business email accounts, for example.

Does not Thunderbird work with Gmail/Microsoft/etc? Does not Apple's Mail.app?


Not well. At least Thunderbird with Gmail does not work very well.

What are the problems you have faced ? I'm been using Thunderbird for a few months and i haven't notice anything weird

I found the book Ancient Greek law in the 21st century, edited by Paula Jean Perlman to be an interesting read as a layman:

* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36708211-ancient-greek-l...

Some interesting stuff on slaves having debt (is the debt transferred with the sale of a slave, or kept with the slave's master?) and owning things (like one of the largest banks in Athens, since finance was not an 'honourable' way to make money, so 'relegated' to less reputable people).


> So after the success of our initial testing, we decided to go all in on ZFS for all our large data storage needs. We’ve now been using ZFS for all our email servers for over 3 years and have been very happy with it. We’ve also moved over all our database, log and backup servers to using ZFS on NVMe SSDs as well with equally good results.

If you're looking at ZFS on NVMe you may want to look at Alan Jude's talk on the topic, "Scaling ZFS for the future", from the 2024 OpenZFS User and Developer Summit:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA6hL4opG4I

* https://openzfs.org/wiki/OpenZFS_Developer_Summit_2024

There are some bottlenecks that get in the way of getting all the performance that the hardware often is capable of.


> I would argue that HTTP statuses are a bad design decision, because they are intended to be consumed by apps, but are not app-specific.

Perhaps put the app-specific part in the body of the reply. In the RFC they give a human specific reply to (presumably) be displayed in the browser:

   HTTP/1.1 429 Too Many Requests
   Content-Type: text/html
   Retry-After: 3600

   <html>
      <head>
         <title>Too Many Requests</title>
      </head>
      <body>
         <h1>Too Many Requests</h1>
         <p>I only allow 50 requests per hour to this Web site per
            logged in user.  Try again soon.</p>
      </body>
   </html>
* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6585#section-4

* https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/429

But if the URL is specific to an API, you can document that you will/may give further debugging details (in text, JSON, XML, whatever).


> 72 requests per day is nothing and acting like it's mayhem is a bit silly.

72 requests per day per IP over how many IPs? When you start multiplying numbers together they can get big.


> I'm not sure the timeline adds up for that - maybe Next cam before he bought Pixar?

Jobs became majority stakeholder of Pixar in 1986. NeXT was incorporated in 1988.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixar#Independent_company_(198...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT_Computer

But Unix workstations were a thing even before then: 68k-based systems were already around in the 1980s, with Sun (taking just one example) releasing their first product in 1982:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun-1

IRIX-based systems on MIPS were big in the 1990s (post-Jurassic Park), but SGI also started with 68k-based systems.


They launched NeXTcube in 1988, but they incorporated in sep 1985.

> I remember the Unix-ness was a big part of OS X’s nerd popularity.

* https://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/2002/02/25


> Even today plenty of Christian sects refuse to recognize the council of Nicaea's interpretation of the trinity, including the Mormons and the Jehovah's witnesses

In some ways the (English) word "God" has become 'overloaded' over time:

* https://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2015/12/christians-muslims-...

And that's not even getting into "god":

* https://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2011/04/further-thought-on-...


I mean Zeus/Deus is a thousand times more overloaded.

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