A binary format that is only readable by some very specific version of the program writing it. The older xls comes to mind, but there must be thousands of examples.
Lots of sites publish outages, incidents, downtime over RSS/atom. Works great for monitoring, post them into slack with a bot and you can start a discussion thread about that incident where you first hear about it.
The curl alias in powershell is not compatible so it is an inconvenience. Must be one of the worst decisions to make it into windows, which is saying a lot.
The worst part is that Windows does ship cURL as a binary at `C:\Windows\System32\curl.exe` (may be dependent on some optional feature, dunno). Nowadays it does invoke this for me on my system, but I don't remember if I did something for this to be the case.
Most of the aliases are for convenience when working in an interactive shell, which will generally be dealing with more basic functions of a command. For scripting it is best practice to use the full commandlet names.
Also you can schedule it a bit off. Every hour? Delay it a few seconds. Can’t do that with a chat message. Also, batch up a bunch of them, maybe save some compute that way? Latency is not an issue.
he seems to think his times better spent on software than science it seems. i take it he didnt really crack anything of worth on the physics side then?
it's not the focus or very performant but you can have it spill to disk if you run out of memory. I wouldn't suggest building a solution based on this approach though; the sweet-spot is memory-constrained.
