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		eyelidlessness on Sept 17, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: HTTP Status 418 – I'm a teapot To be honest I think the robustness principle isn’t very well supported. We shouldn’t be this accommodating in what we accept. We’re very likely harming users by ignoring errors.

eyelidlessness on Sept 17, 2021 [–]

That said we should be much more accommodating in our user interfaces to help prevent this kind of crap data.

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