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FreeBSD documentation strikes again! Now it's kevent(2)'s man page, which doesn't mention EVFILT_SENDFILE flag. This is ridiculous. I've watched a couple of conference talks about new asynchronous sendfile(2) and couldn't figure out how to use it. Unless you're constantly reading header files, you wouldn't even know it's there.

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Why in the hell FreeBSD changed semantics of RFMEM flag in rfork(2), compared to original call in Plan 9? This misunderstanding cost me countless hours wasted on debugging...

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Today I learnt that FreeBSD doesn't give a f**ck about p_offset field of my '.text' section. This stupid bug caused me a day of work working around it...

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I hate dynamically linked executables. Why can't I statically link everything and have self-contained programs? Apart from Plan 9 and Inferno, this seems like a dream...

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I've just wasted a couple of hours of my life because I accidentally removed part of /usr/local on friend's server. Conslusion: learn to use zfs snapshot and use it at least once in your life.

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This disclaimer I've found in FreeBSD sources should be included in all modern software: "DISCLAIMER: This code isn't warranted to do anything useful".

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Windows Me and Windows Vista are considered to be the worst versions of Windows. Still better than Windows 11, though.

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Mainstream programming is like science before Da Vinci: experimental proofs are something they are yet to discover.

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I finally have a place, where I can freely post whatever is on my mind without stupid people commenting on it or money fees to Elon.