> I declined to take that offer. I had missed several business meetings that cost me actual money. I couldn't donate blood for years because I had been to the Amazon and was tagged a malaria risk.

RTFP?

Checked the contributor list, please disclose that you're a primary contributor.

No such thing as a too-low risk to reward ratio. That's basically free rewards.

Why are we citing novelists for appeals to authority on something like intelligence. I thought this might be a figure on developmental psychology to give value to your comment, but it's not even that. Should I be citing George Orwell's doublethink to counter you?

Did you deliberately not address the prices skyrocketing comment? Not that the price is what it is, but that the price changed?

If I could install PVE on my M series Mac, nothing would make me happier. It would be such a nice way to recycle such hardware once I finally upgrade.

I just use Amazon Ion as my JSON superset of choice for my own sanity, and downconvert to JSON when (if) it matters, it's not even bad and it supports comments. Hell there's a freaking Lisp for it now, too (Fusion). https://ion-fusion.dev/

Given also that it's a big tech technology I am going to wager that it's not going away anytime soon.

Consider yourself lucky. This happens very frequently these days.

A few days multiplied by the number of skills I once had translates to well over two months of lost time.

Programming without writing, to me, feels like doing mathematics by reading proofs but not doing proofs. Which quite frankly works very poorly for me. I write code if, for nothing else, so that I can spot bad code/proofs with an easier time, rather than dealing with an equation that blew up in prod.