From 2a065d1dd5a4cc95c5c5334871bd5884471c06f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Hitt Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:52:12 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] README: plainer wording Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 --- README.md | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 8d2cfe9..645cd65 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -23,11 +23,10 @@ It is pure, with no clock and no I/O. `now` is a parameter. yourself. If every tenant is a stack on one host, a signup loop with no quota fills that host, and a full disk on a shared host wedges every container, not only the new one. Declaring no limits at all is a critical - failure: a quota that was never set is not unlimited, it is unconsidered. + failure: a quota that was never set was never considered. `preflight()` also checks the host ceiling, the per-account ceiling and the free disk left after provisioning. Unmeasured disk, or a stack with no - size estimate, is NOT ASSESSED. An unmeasured resource is not a plentiful - one. + size estimate, is NOT ASSESSED. 3. A claimed job looks like progress. With `SKIP LOCKED` claiming, a worker that dies mid-job leaves the job claimed forever. It is not queued, not failed, and nothing retries it, so no dashboard alarms on it.