Google actually started pipe syntax, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41338877

Now it is supported by DuckDB, BigQuery, Spark SQL, Firebolt, and probably others. I use it more and more (with BigQuery).

TXT files are good. Scribing notes with a pen in plain paper notebook beats .txt files.

I still remember one bug I filed to Firefox, about issues with roaming profiles on Windows. I then forgot about it, as nothing was going on with it, except few times a year someone new commented that they run a few thousand seats org, and this bug prevents them from deployong Firefox. It was finally fixed like 12 years later.

A bunch of countries joined the non-proliferation agreement, including ... Iran. Which makes those nukes illegal in the eye of Iranian own laws.

Israel is not a singer of the treaty.

A more realistic example: something like printf or scanf. It can take an object of multiple types as argument. It takes computer's locale from environment and does locale dependent number and date formatting, also supports various timezones that it reads from OS.

And you always run it in a data center that uses a specific locale, and only UTC time zone, and very few simple types. But all this can only be known at runtime, except maybe types if the compiler is good.

Hawaii Big Island does care about light pollution - for the sake of astronomical observatories. They use yellow low pressure sodium light. Yellow is dispersed less by air. The energy efficiency of low pressure sodium bulbs is also high, comparable or higher than most LEDs.