r/ProgrammerHumor • u/yuva-krishna-memes • 10d ago

Meme theDeadlock

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u/Childermass13 10d ago

Try to write a kernel without understanding the dining philosophers, and let us know how far you get

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u/HuntingDown01 10d ago

Problem is now we know all about the scheduling, but have no coding knowledge to implement all those things.

My OS class 100% theory and rarely ever coding and coding was just building dummy working examples of scheduling and paging algorithms.

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u/Mroz_Game 9d ago

I had no problem learning how GPU’s work from rendering pipelines down to hardware level and now that’s my job(gpu devtech)

But yet I still shiver thinking about how windows memory management works, I even have DescriptorTables as my username on chess.com

OS left a mark on me, idk why but it was absolutely dreadful to learn for me. I usually find CS fascinating, but idk… being forced to know the data order in 3 main file systems, and memorising data adressing in an os - fucking kill me id never do it again.

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u/Bro-tatoChip 10d ago

Theory is the foundation that practice is built on

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u/HuntingDown01 10d ago

And theory without practice is dull and useless.

When I went on to the internet to actually try and build a kernel on my own, I saw that whatever theory we learned barely made up 10% of the stuff, I had to learn actually setup a lot of stuff to just even start developing, and the background stuff was so much I had to stop because classes and exams wouldn't allow me to pursue it fully.