I get that calling command line tools is a bit clunky, but python is always my go-to when shell scripting gets too painful

Appreciate the sentiment but can we please stop proscribing things? Surely we should have learned by now that this has an unacceptable effect on freedom of the press and the right to protest.

I do not want to see proscription become a cudgel wielded by successive political parties to ban support for any organisation they oppose.

Not sure I like their definition of declarative. I’d instead say that a config is “declarative” if the result of applying that configuration is independent of the current state of the system.

Most of their quotes come from this Ono guy…

Ono, who is also a freelance mathematical consultant for Epoch AI.

Ahhh, there it is.