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   niconiconi (niconiconi@mk.absturztau.be)'s status on Friday, 16-Aug-2024 07:19:28 JST niconiconi

   • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

   @chjara@akko.wtf @lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me just stop beating a dead horse and bashing creat(), since it has already been officially acknowledged by Ken Thompson as the most serious design error in Unix decades ago.Ken Thompson was once asked what he would do differently if he were redesigning the UNIX system. His reply: "I'd spell creat with an e." https://github.com/golang/go/commit/c90d392ce3d3203e0c32b3f98d1e68c4c2b4c49b

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Friday, 16-Aug-2024 07:22:07 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @niconiconi @chjara "dead horse" reminds me of this one:

     Not only is UNIX dead, it’s starting to smell really bad. — Rob Pike circa 1991