You: [0]

  Nobody's talking about an obligation here.
Also you: [1]

  If you think you can do better than journald's existing format, propose a new one with tests to prove it.
The fact that you're personally powerless to enforce an obligation doesn't change the fact that you're talking about creating an obligation.

> I'm not entirely sure this is a bug so much as an inefficiency report.

Performance bugs absolutely are bugs... especially when they're in a long-running corporation-backed project that presents itself as the project atop which all Linux systems should be built.

[0] <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49292944>

[1] <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49291746>

Well, I didn't intend to suggest an obligation, more of a best practice or challenge. Please put more faith in my intentions over whatever interpretation of my words you want to make.

Per our Guidelines:

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation... Assume good faith.

That's what I did. So, right back at you.

> That's what I did

Please explain, because it's not coming across that way. It's coming across as needlessly picky and combative, especially after I told you what I meant (or, at least, didn't mean) and you continued to argue with me.

> Please explain...

I'm neither required nor strongly obligated to do so, nor do I see significant personal benefit to doing so. So, I will not.

However, these days it's quick and easy to command an LLM-based system to generate most any text. Before one demands an explanation from a human, perhaps one should machine-generate a plausible-sounding explanation and present that along with one's demand for a human-synthesized one?

facepalm

Way to double down on the “needlessly picky and combative” angle, dude.

> Way to double down on the “needlessly picky and combative” angle, dude.

Sit and consider the points of similarity between my refusal-shaped reply and the entire conversation we had prior to it and you might find enlightenment, in the style of those classic Zen tales. Perhaps an LLM-based tool might be able to assist you in this, or maybe it will be distracting and misleading.

GLHF and all that.

> you might find enlightenment, in the style of those classic Zen tales

Doctor, heal thyself.