the translation step from binary (program) -> text (SQL) -> binary (server)

Your concern about this is misguided. Inter-process communication always has to cross a barrier, by definition.

I take it http also feels wrong to you?

Binary protocols do exist, e.g. gRPC, but they incur costs of their own.

No! Bad dev! No biscuit!

Never merge master into a feature branch. It's called a "wrong-way" merge and it makes the history fucking awful.

You shit in the face of project maintainers when you do this.

You may not care, in fact many don't. Also people buy timeshares, read celebrity gossip magazines, and vote for scumbags. They are fucking idiots who don't know what they are doing. So are people who leave wrong-way merges in shared history.

In fact, wrong-way mergers are worse, because you can't just ignore them - git blame rubs your face in their shit, so they shit in your face forever.

Just don't fucking do it, OK? Or I will hit you in the throat with a cricket bat soaked in wasps. As a first warning.

Ahhh, thanks! Please excuse my error - I am attempting to perform computation using a kilo of wet squidgy protein and fat.

Deliberately duplicate a mac address, and worse, deliberately pick a device that's definitely going to be online in the same network segment?

At first I thought you were either trolling or profoundly ignorant.

Then I remembered that wifi is CSMA, and thought, hang on... is this actually a genius idea? Has this user come up with a hack that no-one else knows about? So I tried it.

It doesn't work. I couldn't even join.

So no, you are either trolling or ignorant.

Hers some discussion and links, for anyone interested: https://superuser.com/questions/1132935/duplicate-mac-on-a-wifi-network-problems

My understanding is that the Windows terminal sucks? I don't know why, it just looks bad.

Your understanding is wrong. I've tried 8 different terminals on mac, arch and kubuntu, and I miss Windows Terminal every day. It looks good and the config is a pleasure. I don't expect Linux to look pretty, but MacOS had fucking awful font rendering and it's supposed to be this upmarket OS for moneyed pricks in black turtlenecks. Was everyone in unixland busy doing drugs while Microsoft was implementing anti-aliasing? Is clear legible type for losers?

Great boast for privacy. Removes a lot of attack surface that law could exploit. And potentially reduces running costs, too.

Glad to hear you're building the kernel too.

You want to have a superficial little rant about how much you hate microsoft. It's uninformed and boring, and you're not going to learn anything in that mindset.

C# is an excellent language for many circumstances. If you knock off the attitude, I'd be willing to explain to you why it's so widely used.