Meme: The reality of OS class vs. expectations
cneuralnetwork · x · 2026-08-21
A humorous take on the gap between expectations and reality in an 'Operating Systems' class. One expects to learn how to build a custom Linux distro or hack a mainframe, but instead spends three hours listening to a professor in a sleepy ASMR voice mathematically explaining why five hypothetical philosophers sharing chopsticks will eventually starve. A classic reference to the Dining Philosophers problem.
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