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Earlier in this thread, I said that shamelessly admitting your mistakes is a virtue. People like you are the reason it's such a difficult virtue to cultivate.

The lesson conveyed in your post is "if something is hard for you, keep your mouth shut about it, or someone will laugh at you." That is a fucking terrible lesson and it needs to be stamped out and destroyed. I'm still trying to unlearn it.

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I'm not saying that having a bug is something to be ashamed of. I am pointing out that the page is making a big deal out of a small issue, in order to argue a bigger point: operating system development is hard. The whole page screams with: "look how hard this is!".

The lesson conveyed in my post should be that this author is making it look harder than it actually is, and if you want to write an OS, you shouldn't feel like it's an unsurmountable task. But by all means, stamp and destroy it.

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