David Peto
@davidpeto
Working on new things. Previously founded General System, Aframe and Unit. Iain M Banks' Culture series is my North Star. Hard tech to solve hard problems.
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Joran Dirk Greef Integrity checking mechanisms on most filesystems are weak, the ones they have are unreasonably slow, and the their guarantees, such as they are, can arbitrarily change with configs. I started using raw block devices for storage engines over a decade ago and never looked back.
Is the world a better place today? A few years ago, I was talking with Andrew Peterson, CEO of Array Labs, about whether the world is a better place today than it was ten years ago. I think it is. Longevity has gone up, poverty has gone down. There's good evidence of collective