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Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation in the Linux kernel
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Re: Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation in the Linux kernel
#342Re: Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation in the Linux kernel
#343I don't know if ending another human's life leaves any possibility of redemption for a person, but reading this I still empathize with the sense of loss and powerlessness that emanate from this letter.
Good thing the lizards who pass the US throne back and forth don't have souls that need redemption!
Re: Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation in the Linux kernel
#344This letter is too fucking heavy. I couldn't read it for long. Emotions overcame me. He's having a terrible time in prison. I feel sorry for him and angry at him at the same time, for the insane fucking stupid thing he did.
I followed the trial coverage at the time, on Wired. It was a fucking nail biter and by the end it was clear he'd done it and I was just like, fuck, Hans, why did you do it??
Re: Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation in the Linux kernel
#345Earlier quoted context omitted.
Reisers' own evidence precludes a crime of passion. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/software-guru-ordered-pay...
What part of that article supports your point? The only thing I see there is that he made up multiple different stories to try to explain her absence.
That he claims that he killed her to protect his children. You don't make up a reason like that on the spur of the moment while involved in a crime of passion.
"His defense essentially was that he killed his wife to protect his children from her."
That he made up different stories at different times is besides the point, the point is: you can't believe a word he says either way so any defense of a crime of passion is just as baseless as this one, though this one is actually much more believable and fits the evidence available. All of it points to a very smart guy who killed his wife because he thought he could get away with it but failed at that (and not for lack of trying) and who now thinks he can present himself as 'a changed man' when really he isn't.
Re: Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation in the Linux kernel
#346Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't have strong feelings about general internet access, but right now, I am probably spending $200k / year in tax dollars to keep him locked up behind bars. I'd be getting my money's worth. I would much rather he be contributing to free software from behind bars. That's true more generally too. A plumber behind bars should be allowed to plumb. A carpenter to carpent. Why shouldn't people in prison contribute back…
> I am probably spending $200k / year in tax dollars to keep him locked up behind bars. At most you are spending $200K divided by the total amount of tax levied multiplied by your share of that total. Probably less than $1.
I grant you a trophy for your extreme talent for reading too literally, and then stating the obvious.
Here: U+1F3C6
Re: Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation in the Linux kernel
#347Earlier 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.
That /. thread was amazing. So many people trying to justify behavior that cleanly pointed to murder. Not every action by itself, but the combination of all of them: buying crime books, removing the seat, cleaning his car and there were more actions. But the slashdot technical community defended him until the moment he confessed.
It was really cringey.
Re: Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation in the Linux kernel
#348Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you explain what that means? What are 'traditional filesystem semantics' and how would it be useful through 'some other kind of API'?
Well, you know how to R/W data with a normal filesystem. You can chdir() to the location you want to be, look around there with readdir(), open() and read() or write() files in there, and all that. You could also have a SQL-like API where could "select count(1) from all_files where path_root = '/usr' and owner_uid = 0 and world_readable = true" that allowed you to query files, or maybe kernel calls that looked a lot…
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Re: Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation in the Linux kernel
#349This letter is too fucking heavy. I couldn't read it for long. Emotions overcame me. He's having a terrible time in prison. I feel sorry for him and angry at him at the same time, for the insane fucking stupid thing he did. I followed the trial coverage at the time, on Wired. It was a fucking nail biter and by the end it was clear he'd done it and I was just like, fuck, Hans, why did you do it??
I followed it too. It's a crazy feeling: one of my favorite teachers from University (A PhD in AI at the time backbin 2001) is nowadays in prison for murder .
Apparently he is gay and slept with a student, got drunk and passion got the worst of him. This happened years after I have finished school, but finding about it was shocking.
It shows that invariably everyone has a human side that may make us do stupid things out of passion.
Re: Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation in the Linux kernel
#350Earlier quoted context omitted.
Except they do. They don’t reinstall the seat. And hence removing the seat for the purpose of camping was indeed a reasonable thing to do.
> 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.) > (Bro. A car floor isn’t even flat.) > (Bro. A car floor isn’t even flat.) Do you dig it ? A car floor is not fucking flat. That's why it's suspicious to remove the passe…
You’re out of control bro.