I don't? It's fine. I'm also fine just adding an 's' to many words that have unusual plurals; English is flexible, and "persons" is a perfectly acceptable substitute for "people".
That said, I don't love your example. Staff does have a plural, staffs - as in, the separate staffs of multiple organizations.
Of all the rules, #1 one is by far the most arbitrary and least important. But it's also a thoroughly established convention. If you want to present "this is a normal, boring API with few surprises" to your clients, I wouldn't recommend odd collection suffixes.
But it's not going to fundamentally change the usability of your API, unlike many of the other rules.
The case of having a singular at the end of a GET is so rare that it should be easy to disambiguate. I have a project where one of the main objects is a "series", it's clear what "GET /series" and "GET /series/ID" means to anyone that has seen a REST API.
> 1. The goal is to end suffering, so if a practice is making you suffer stop doing it.
That's correct: the goal is to end suffering - by means of understanding it.
Thus the understanding is important to distinguish there's indeed suffering that leads to the end of suffering -- like Ajahn Chah using analogy of going to the dentist (in itself is a suffering) to end the suffering of dental pain.
I've been curious about this in my own practice, but I haven't yet been able to find an example of increasing suffering as having a positive impact on my insight.
Do you remember the book or teaching that that analogy came from? Ajan Chah comes highly recommended from others as well.
Edit: oh I guess the exception is clinging to the Dhamma, like the sutta about the raft.
It feels the entire article is one big strawman: I tried to find for words like: "four noble truth" or "eightfold path" and couldn't find them -- I'm not surprised.
> He made mistakes and learned from them (even after nirvana)
His very first attempt to transmit the Dhamma ended up in failure (the guy before the first five) - and that made him to question, worked on and fixed the way it was delivered.
Edit to add: the downside is that it only works in the current terminal session. To workaround that for myself, I have a fish shell post exec function that records the last command run, plus a bunch of metadata, to a log file.
From your link, Suffering in Buddhism is prescribed as the First Noble Truth:
> Now this, bhikkhus, is the noble truth of suffering:
> birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering;
> union with what is displeasing is suffering;
> separation from what is pleasing is suffering;
> not to get what one wants is suffering;
> in brief, the five aggregates subject to clinging are suffering.
Which part of it is true that "life is about suffering" ?
As for Buddhist monk, you could try looking up Ajahn Brahm - that might offer a different perspective.