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by 256_ 764 days ago
Sometimes I feel like I'm wasting my time by obsessively reading RFCs and specifications for the things I use. This made me feel better about that. And also much more smug.

Other than the obvious moral that protocols should be implemented properly, the moral of the story is that all abstractions are leaky, and it will always be useful to understand the lower levels.