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palatalast Wednesday at 11:08 PM1 replyview on HN

Very nice read!

This really resonated with me:

> I would skim the documentation for the command to run, or the configuration to enter, only to get error messages in response. Then a period of frantic searching and trial and error would follow. Until I finally got it right. Once it worked, I reread the original documentation and saw that the answers were right there all along. Crystal clear. And yet somehow it did not register the first time. This happened on multiple occasions.


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1over137yesterday at 1:49 AM

Everyone is so used to garbage documentation, that they go googling instead, but OpenBSD docs are in fact very good.

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