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> it's the kind of thing that tends to be known by grizzled infrastructure veterans who had good mentors in their chequered past—and not so much by the rest of us

This is why your systems should be designed by grizzled infrastructure veterans.

>>pmoria+(OP)
That reminds me of Jerry Weinberg's dictum: whenever you hear the word "should" on a software project, replace it with "isn't".

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>>dang+bv1
That goes along with "almost never" which is a synonym for "sometimes" and "maintenance-free" which is a synonym for "throw it out and buy a new one when it breaks".

>>dang+bv1
This is brilliant and I suspect generalises to "won't" when reading RFCs.

>>kqr+6O4
"Almost never" -> "more often than you would want"