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nine_kyesterday at 4:03 PM1 replyview on HN

> silently wrap around, producing incorrect and unpredictable

Now I'm more scared to use OpenBSD than I was a minute before.

I strongly prefer software that fails loudly and explicitly.


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kaashifyesterday at 4:57 PM

Yeah, that's pretty appalling.

Regardless of how good the philosophy of something is, if it's as niche and manpower constrained as OpenBSD is then it's going to accumulate problems like this.

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