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Re: Reiser5

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Post by cassianoleal »

gdy wrote: post #41
throwlaplace wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Why? That’s just a name. is it really that difficult to attempt empathy? imagine being one of his kids, growing up to become a developer, and then having to work on code that intersects with reiserfs.

That's a rather hypothetical situation, his kids may as well avoid programming altogether or simply be interested in something else. Your comment, by the way, is very insensitive, surely with your empathy you could've imagined possibility of the author of the parent comment being autistic and hurt by your suggestion that empathy is easy.

In my experience, autistics are very empathic. Sometimes in different ways than neurotypicals, and how it's displayed might be different as well.

Googling something like "quora autistic empathy" will give you plenty of informed posts about the subject. I recommend reading the ones written by actual autistics.

Here are a few examples:

- https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-think-autistic-people-deal-...

- https://www.quora.com/Can-autistic-people-be-empathetic

- https://www.quora.com/Can-people-with-ASD-Asperger-Syndrome-...

Re: Reiser5

#82

Post by [deleted] »

dang wrote: post #75
gdy wrote: post #67

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I've said nothing about trolls.

Can you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments? We're trying for something better than that here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re: Reiser5

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Post by bb010g »

roenxi wrote: post #14
kick wrote: post #2

The tech is still incredibly impressive, I just wish they'd rename it.

Branding isn't a very logical science; so sure they probably should. Them and the GNU Image Manipulation Program, which has 100% lost users because of the stupid name. That said, we also need to be able to separate the good and bad people do. Reiser in his capacity as a programmer is really a different entity to him in his capacity as a murderer. Celebrating one is not celebrating the other. It is the stereotypical e…

Have you heard of Glimpse Image Editor? https://glimpse-editor.org/

Re: Reiser5

#84

Post by rini17 »

No discussion about the actual features? Am I the only one to miss any form of bitrot protection?

Re: Reiser5

#85

Post by rurban »

roenxi wrote: post #14
kick wrote: post #2

The tech is still incredibly impressive, I just wish they'd rename it.

Branding isn't a very logical science; so sure they probably should. Them and the GNU Image Manipulation Program, which has 100% lost users because of the stupid name. That said, we also need to be able to separate the good and bad people do. Reiser in his capacity as a programmer is really a different entity to him in his capacity as a murderer. Celebrating one is not celebrating the other. It is the stereotypical e…

ShishkinFS really? It would better, of course, but there should be different options to save it.

Re: Reiser5

#86

Post by gdy »

cassianoleal wrote: post #81
gdy wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's a rather hypothetical situation, his kids may as well avoid programming altogether or simply be interested in something else. Your comment, by the way, is very insensitive, surely with your empathy you could've imagined possibility of the author of the parent comment being autistic and hurt by your suggestion that empathy is easy.

In my experience, autistics are very empathic. Sometimes in different ways than neurotypicals, and how it's displayed might be different as well. Googling something like "quora autistic empathy" will give you plenty of informed posts about the subject. I recommend reading the ones written by actual autistics. Here are a few examples: - https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-think-autistic-people-deal-... - https://www.quor…

Thank you, the last link shows it was utterly wrong to use autism as an example.

Re: Reiser5

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Post by shiftless »

kick wrote: post #23
roenxi wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Branding isn't a very logical science; so sure they probably should. Them and the GNU Image Manipulation Program, which has 100% lost users because of the stupid name. That said, we also need to be able to separate the good and bad people do. Reiser in his capacity as a programmer is really a different entity to him in his capacity as a murderer. Celebrating one is not celebrating the other. It is the stereotypical e…

GIMP changing its name seems pointless at this point, especially because of where the conversations there led. It would have been smarter for them to argue that "gimp" is a sexual term, and therefore gross, rather than an antiquated ableist term, because the former is more common than the latter usage (which is never used). Reiser's accomplishments are already out there, there's no need to continue with his name on s…

> 'Reiser's accomplishments are already out there, there's no need to continue with his name on something he hasn't contributed a patch to in a decade'

He's been in prison. I doubt kernel driver writing is encouraged there.

> 'there's literally no harm in changing the name of a program like this; it's not a binary decision between "remember the person" and "use their work,"'

You are literally incorrect in saying there is literally no harm. The harm is this: you're engaging in the "Two Minutes Hate." I don't want to live in the kind of corrupt society that rushes out to scrub a person's name from the history books just because a skeleton is (literally) discovered in their closet.

Removing Hans Reiser's name from his creation would be equally immoral to putting him to death--because among other reasons, you cannot guarantee that he is guilty with 100% certainty.

I think that the name should stand, so that the community can collectively enjoy the constant whining and bitching from all corners every time the subject comes up, rather than anyone having a technical discussion about boring things like the filesystem's merits.

Re: Reiser5

#88

Post by shiftless »

strainer wrote: post #73
roenxi wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Branding isn't a very logical science; so sure they probably should. Them and the GNU Image Manipulation Program, which has 100% lost users because of the stupid name. That said, we also need to be able to separate the good and bad people do. Reiser in his capacity as a programmer is really a different entity to him in his capacity as a murderer. Celebrating one is not celebrating the other. It is the stereotypical e…

I'm not convinced by the long term benefit of nitrogen fertiliser synthesis. A significant boom in food production is attributable to it but also long term degradation of agricultural soils, pollution from fertiliser run off and repression of more sustainable agriculture and food distribution options. Perhaps if it had been used to buy time for more ecological and equitable policies it would be more impressive, but i…

You're right on the money. A major, growing world problem (that noone talks about, because they're too busy focusing on manufactured frauds like 'global warming') is depletion of soil micronutrients.

Zinc, selenium, boron depletion are some particularly serious examples. The vast majority of the world's agricultural soil is zinc deficient, including most of US soil.

This of course leads to deficiencies in our food also, with many foods in the USA being seriously depleted of nutrition, and the corresponding health effects in the populace. It's a slow-motion downward spiral, and existential crisis.

I understand other nutrients like iron are deficient in some of the more serious locales. Fortification of foods with various nutrients has been tried as a stopgap measure, but this problem is only going to worsen as time goes on.

The plain fact is, industrial agriculture is a dead end road, as you allude to in your comment about synthetic nitrogen fertilizer.

Phosphorus (rock phosphate) is an equally major problem, in that it's used way too much, tends to wash out of the soil and cause its own pollution, and is in decreasing world supply also.

Likewise, potassium is essential in large amounts for plant fruiting and flowering. There isn't really enough of it out there in good, usable, convenient forms.

The only answer is to use manure fertilizer, i.e. organics, and the end of industrial farming. Not going to happen without a major disaster occurring first, because the masses aren't known for their deep thinking, and the people running the show aren't known for anything other than total selfishness, and steering nations purposely into disaster for the sake of their own power or profit.

I have no idea how your post got here on a post about ReiserFS, unless it's an HN bug or something.

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