Linus Torvalds Injects Tabs To Thwart Kconfig Parsers Not Correctly Handling Them
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- Linus Torvalds added hidden tabs to Kconfig to challenge parsers that can't handle them.
- Tabs were intentionally added to the common Kconfig file for page sizes to expose faulty parsers.
- Torvalds believes parsers unable to handle tabs shouldn't be parsing kernel Kconfig files, aiming to force fixes.
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I tried it with Claude 3 Opus, even better:
I feel like the other one is much better because of the slight passiveness and colorful expressions.
Hah.
This is amazing
“ok, now add a metric shit ton of swearing and further belittle parsers who can’t deal with tabs.”
Heh this is so succinctly scathing, but also dead on ....
This is genius.
I am more than sure that Linus wrote the original message as he would normally do, and then made it clean and pretty with an AI. Sometimes I resort to this option too.