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Linus Torvalds once said a dev should be “retroactively aborted.”
The crime: reading ONE BYTE AT A TIME with a syscall per byte.
Toxic? Maybe. But he gave the fix: “just use seq_printf().”
Brutal AND actionable. Most people are neither.
Hard feedback is what ships the kernel.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The content has been rewritten with AI.
It has a 100% score in Pangram: pangram.com/history/e544e0…
Linus’ original ‘retroactively aborted’ email is shorter: lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/6/…
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password confirmation errors should only display when confirmation length >= password length
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IF U ASK ME "CAN WE TALK" U GOT 10 SECONDS TO EXPLAIN WHAT IT IS BEFORE MY BODY EJECTS ITSELF DIRECTLY INTO THE SUN AND BURNS TO ASH FROM ANXIETY
