Network requests are actions with possible side effects.

2025-04-28 · Bits and Bobs 4/28/25

Network requests are actions with possible side effects.
- You can't see what happens on the other side, so you have to assume it could do anything.
- That makes a system that has open-ended network requests hard to be a safe sandbox for experimentation.

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