Will we all be fucked or is there a Linus 2?

  • Kuadhual
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    518 months ago

    We need to consider truck-kun factor, where the developer get isekai-ed.

    • @[email protected]
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      358 months ago

      “I’ll Become the Strongest Adventurer in the Other World with My Maximum Level Open Source Operating System Development Skills.”

        • @[email protected]
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          138 months ago

          “Brave Hero from Finland, you’ve been struck by a bus and are going to reincarnate into–”

          “No I wasn’t. That bus CHASED ME DOWN two alleys, over a fire hydrant, into, and out of a Starbucks. It did NOT hit me. You just summoned me here.”

          “Err… anyway, this world needs a hero to–”

          “Write hardware drivers? A kernel module? Some inline assembly?”

          "Err… the demon lord… er… "

          “DID YOU EVEN MAIL THE LIST? Hah… Okay. Does this world have logic gates of any kind? I need to get this knocked out as soon as possible. I’ve got the entirety of the bcachefs patchset to review before 6.7 is in release.”

            • @[email protected]
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              88 months ago

              Dr Stone but for computers/software dev…

              Linus teaches them all best practices and then takes a 2 week hiatus from kernel dev to write a tool that defeats the demon lord.