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Reminds me of a fatal flaw of yaml. Turns out truncating a yaml file doesn't make it invalid. Which can lead to some rather non-obvious failures.

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What is the failure mode where a yaml file gets truncated? They are normally config files in Git. Or uploaded to S3 or Kubernetes etc.

CSV has the same failure mode. As does HTML. (But not XML)

Same is true of CSV/TSV.

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