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Re:What a good debugger can do by sokoloff on Friday March 10, 2023 @11:04AM (#35096151)
I really enjoyed this thought in that mail: “Tough. There are two kinds of reactions to that [time lost from a bug you introduced in kernel dev]: you start being careful, or you start whining about a kernel debugger.”
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Re:What a good debugger can do by matheusmoreira on Friday March 10, 2023 @12:43PM (#35098008)
He also reminds people why everyone pulls from torvalds/linux to this day:

> People think I'm a nice guy, and the fact is that I'm a scheming, conniving bastard who doesn't care for any hurt feelings or lost hours of work if it just results in what I consider to be a better system.

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