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Re: Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation in the Linux kernel

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Post by dekhn »

gnramires wrote: post #123
dekhn wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So, the wikipedia first line is wrong, you're saying? "Metcalfe's law states that the financial value or influence of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users of the system" Later in the article it seems like the original stating is more consistent with what you said, but everything I've ever learned in network theory and practice shows that it scales as a power of n…

The number of connected users is different from the number of user connections :) The first is the number of nodes, the second edges.

Uhh, are you sure? I believe "connected users" refers to edges. Otherwise it would be stated as "users connected to the network".

It could explain my misunderstanding, and also seems consistent with the explanation later in the article, but it's also completely the opposite of what we observe on the internet; for example, the value of the web is definitely not in its in number of pages, but in the value and quality of the connections between the pages.

Re: Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation in the Linux kernel

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Post by scotty79 »

pvg wrote: post #115
dale_glass wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He was far less of a mastermind than he fancied himself at the time. If I recall, he bought a book on murder investigations and a socket set after his wife's disappearance (which was easily tracked back to him), removed car seats (blood) from his car, and willingly testified in court that it was his manly dream to sleep in the car, or something along these lines. He could have likely gotten away with it if he kept hi…

He could have likely gotten away with it He had a plea deal offer for not much more than time served so he even had a definite option to a form of getting away with it.

Why didn't he take it? It's pretty much the best what murderer on trial can hope for.

... then again, if he was reasonable he'd probably never commit murder.

Re: Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation in the Linux kernel

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Post by [deleted] »

gertop wrote: post #25
throwaway365980 wrote: post #14

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Why do you think that her being a mail order bride makes it less bad? If anything it just shows that he wanted to buy another human that he could control and, when it turned out not to be the case, he decided to kill her.

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Re: Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation in the Linux kernel

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Post by em-bee »

beibeibei wrote: post #105
sph wrote: post #19

I think about Hans Reiser pretty often, incidentally, because there is a quote from him I read as a teenager that stuck with me. "The utility of an operating system is proportional to the number of connections possible between its components, than it is to the number of those components." — Hans Reiser (from http://web.archive.org/web/20040126210110/http://unununium.o... ) It's hard to reconcile good things a person…

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Re: Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation in the Linux kernel

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Post by skissane »

shzhdbi09gv8ioi wrote: post #59
themerone wrote: post #47

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Evil is not a religious concept.

Dude. Good & evil is such a central concept in Christianity it is practically ingrained in your society if you live in a christian country even if you are secular.

The English words for good and evil are pre-Christian in origin. So are their cognates in other European languages. Greek philosophers were debating “good and evil” centuries before Jesus of Nazareth was born. So there is nothing inherently Christian about those words, or the concepts they describe.

Re: Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation in the Linux kernel

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Post by skjoldr »

BucketsMcG wrote: post #120
kstrauser wrote: post #56

That was fascinating. It sounds like he’s done some real introspection during his lockup, and I hope he’s able to apply those learnings to future situations. I felt bad for him[0] while reading. He was a brilliant young person with a big dream, yet without the interpersonal skills to help him realize it. I’ve seen that so often. Maybe this will help me look past the next person’s challenging communications, and think…

Maybe he wants to learn, or maybe he's a psychopath trying to upgrade his human emulation software so he can get out sooner. Even experts find it hard to tell.

Psychopaths are still people even if their brains are broken. It is indeed hard to integrate them into society, especially if their family did a bad job of it in their childhood.

Re: Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation in the Linux kernel

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Post by varelse »

BucketsMcG wrote: post #120
kstrauser wrote: post #56

That was fascinating. It sounds like he’s done some real introspection during his lockup, and I hope he’s able to apply those learnings to future situations. I felt bad for him[0] while reading. He was a brilliant young person with a big dream, yet without the interpersonal skills to help him realize it. I’ve seen that so often. Maybe this will help me look past the next person’s challenging communications, and think…

Maybe he wants to learn, or maybe he's a psychopath trying to upgrade his human emulation software so he can get out sooner. Even experts find it hard to tell.

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Re: Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation in the Linux kernel

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Post by killerstorm »

sph wrote: post #19

I think about Hans Reiser pretty often, incidentally, because there is a quote from him I read as a teenager that stuck with me. "The utility of an operating system is proportional to the number of connections possible between its components, than it is to the number of those components." — Hans Reiser (from http://web.archive.org/web/20040126210110/http://unununium.o... ) It's hard to reconcile good things a person…

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Re: Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation in the Linux kernel

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Post by scotty79 »

bejk22 wrote: post #85
bachmeier wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Ending another human's life" covers a wide range of cases. My recollection of this event, which is now long in the past, is that he was cold, calculating, did not value human life, and was quite comfortable with his kids moving on without their mother. He didn't just do something to her. He permanently damaged his kids, her family, and all of her friends. He made his decision knowing all of this. Redemption? Possibl…

> because he's not like the rest of us. He's human and killing other humans is something a humans can do, given the right circumstances.

> He's human and killing other humans is something a humans can do, given the right circumstances.

Absolutely not. Average human needs to be ordered to kill and lied to and desensitized throughly to be able to do it. People who can kill out of their own initiative are not like the rest of us. Most cases of killings happen only because humans are so fragile in context of our technology. Intentional killing is something very unique.

Re: Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation in the Linux kernel

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Post by bdamm »

jonathankoren wrote: post #42
dale_glass wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He was far less of a mastermind than he fancied himself at the time. If I recall, he bought a book on murder investigations and a socket set after his wife's disappearance (which was easily tracked back to him), removed car seats (blood) from his car, and willingly testified in court that it was his manly dream to sleep in the car, or something along these lines. He could have likely gotten away with it if he kept hi…

I will always remember the Slashdot comment that said that removing the passenger seat of your car so you could sleep in your car was a reasonable thing to do, and everyone saying it was suspicious was a hater. (Bro. A car floor isn’t even flat.) I think it was my first experience with absolute egregious fanboism.

It was probably him.
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