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Comment by baq

6 months ago

> Part of the fun challenge in writing software is that the act of programming can teach you that you’re wrong at every level. The syntax can be wrong. The algorithm you’re implementing can be wrong. The way you’re designing a module can be misguided.

I see you sir haven’t had experience with writing drivers for prerelease hardware. You’re right in these cases of course, you just aren’t right enough - the real fun starts when you can trust neither the hardware, nor the BIOS, nor the OS in addition to all the above.