"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
something i have always observed, is how considerate Ted Tso's writing always is, but more than that, how consistent this property has been for so many decades.
its quite funny to me that ext4 very much mirrors him in that regard. its underpinning damn well everything, but you'd never know about it because it works so well.
webdevver|4 days ago
its quite funny to me that ext4 very much mirrors him in that regard. its underpinning damn well everything, but you'd never know about it because it works so well.
lproven|3 days ago
This is less true when T'so asks questions at conferences, of course.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/02/rust_for_linux_mainta...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiPp9YEBV0Q&t=1529s
lproven|3 days ago
And the unreasonable one writes his own Unix clone... and ends up putting several multi-million-dollar companies out of business.
I know which I admire more, TBH.
But I use ext4, yeah.