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This is more or less how I felt when typing `subprocess.run` into the omnibar and discovering that `.run` is now a valid gTLD.

• tptacek 4y ago
  At some point though we have to accept that the Internet's public namespaces can't be defined by whatever random-ass file extensions different operating systems use. I can understand pushing back on ".zip" as a special case (I don't think it's going to be that big of a deal, but we'll see), but the general principle shouldn't be that TLDs have to "avoid confusion" with file formats; it's the browser's job to avoid that confusion, right?
  • woodruffw 4y ago
    Oh, I don't necessarily disagree -- it was just surprising to think that I was Googling a Python API (for the 500th time!) and all of a sudden get a DNS lookup failure instead. (It's not Google's or IANA's or whoever's responsibility to fix a namespacing problem here, but it's also maybe not ideal that less-technical users are funneled into a single "omnibar" interface for both searching and domain resolution.)
    • kkarakk 4y ago
      it's funny how the idea of googling docs already seems quaint to me coz of chatgpt but i still do it really often