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You're right, quicksand all around.

However, the post illustrates an important feature I often see overlooked: the systems we build on top of are not just black boxes. We should not be afraid to really understand how they work, opening up source code, asking questions like, "what the heck is this /proc/NUMBER section of the filesystem?" And I think this post illuminates that in a pretty fun way.




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