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		deredede 27 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem Not GP but I read "I'm fine with allocation failures" as "I'm OK with my program terminating if it can't allocate (but not for other errors)".

johnisgood 27 days ago [–]

I mean, yeah, if I am using a library, as an user of this library, I would like to be able to handle the error myself. Having the library decide to panic, for example, is the opposite of it.

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