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Looking at how my servers update themselves and the recent Copy Fail vulnerability, I'm considering an automated weekly restart to make sure services and kernels are up to date. It'd also ensure that services are correctly configured to start on boot. Any thoughts? Feels crude.

Twitter treats #foo and $bar as special syntax due to emergent behaviour of users. I keep seeing similar emergent features in other domains, e.g. airport wifi using '_Foo Wifi' to ensure it's sorted first. Ideally there'd be a priority flag, so a printer is never shown first.

Python and JS can both execute code when loading libraries (`import foo` and `require('foo')` respectively). Yet the Python CLI apps I've seen have to do much more work to ensure good startup performance (e.g. `myapp --help` not being slow). I'm not sure why.