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Anecdote: I rewrote an operating system (back when people did things like that) to repackage it as a library of modules (kernel, drivers, services) that self-configured on each boot.

It took 19(!) tries to get past the 1st line of code in the entry point module.

There is no such thing as a trivial change (tho that was sure not trivial). My mantra is: "If you haven't tried it, it doesn't work" We all know that, deep down. We tell stories over dinner of the time something worked on the first try. Why? Because that hardly ever happens.




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