>Self hosting used to mean conceding on something.

Of what I selfhost, I've never felt I was having to concede on anything.

If it wasn't easy, I wouldn't be using it. I'm the laziest of programmers or users.

If companies like Cloudflare haven't figured out how to do reliable rollbacks, there seems little hope for any of us.

Rollback carries with it the contextual understanding of complete atomicity; otherwise it's slightly better than a yeet. It's similar to backups that are untested.

Complete atomicity carries with it the idea that the world is frozen, and any data only needs to change when you allow it to.

That's to say, it's an incredibly good idea when you can physically implement it. It's not something that everybody can do.

No, complete atomicity doesn't require a frozen state, it requires common sense and fail-proof, fool-proof guarantees derived from assurances gained from testing.

There is another name for rolling forward, it's called tripping up.

Agreed. WebScript would be better.

That’s always been my favorite proposal. WebScript is short and to the point.

The idea sounds tempting at first but the founders set it up so congressmen could be voted in for decades or voted out. The real issue in my view is, why are constituents not voting the scoundrels out.

Because you don't vote people out, you vote people in (or abstain from voting, which is just letting someone else decide who to vote in).

If all the options on the ballot are scoundrels, which seems to often be the case, you're kinda stuck.

You can't vote a scoundrel out without voting another scoundrel in. There's no option for "vacant seat".

>The elderly are on Medicare, and health care providers know they can treat much more aggressively when the government is picking up the tab.

People should not make the unqualified statement that Medicare is free, which is what "the government is picking up the tab" sounds like. Medicare isn't free. Some people, not all, can qualify for free Part A but Parts B, C and D have premiums no matter what.

Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude and Grok all said no, we're not in a recession just now when I asked them.