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Putting something in a spec does not automatically make it true. Terrible news for computing.

• spockz 4mo ago
  The point is that you need to take care to make the implementation of that endpoint safe. It isn’t safe magically by itself.
  • themgt 4mo ago
    Great, got it. I'll update my running "how computing works" chart with this new information: | implementation = reality | magic | |-----------------------------------| | 999,999,999,971 (+1) | 0 |
    • spockz 4mo ago
      Why the snark? The existing methods have been around for ages. Many engineers I’ve encountered were not even aware that there was a distinction between “idempotent” and “safe” as attributes of a method and generally conflated them, using “safe” in the sense of the dictionary definition instead of the spec’s. Elsewhere it was suggested that we can now replace POST with this query. I was trying to be cautionary because just changing the method alone will bring different behaviour. I did so in brevity because I was in a rush. IMHO, that does not call for snark.