#2531: Dark Arts

XKCD comic, described below.
Transcript

[Cueball and White Hat stand in a slightly darkened room, with a jagged circle of light centered on Cueball and light-reflecting onto White Hat's face. Cueball holds his arm out with his palm facing towards White Hat.]

Cueball: Long ago, in another age, I mastered these dark arts.

Cueball: But I now endeavor to live my life such that I never need them.

Cueball: Their power leads only to ruin.

[Caption below panel]

My response whenever anyone asks me to mess around with filesystems


(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)

Title text:You think, 'okay, THIS is an ideal use case for hardlinks!' but then 6 months later you're doing some extremely cursed Google search like 'javascript ext4' and wondering where things went wrong.


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