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ReiserFS hasn't been the best solution in a long, long while. Even before the murder case it was often more trouble than it was worth.
I used it for a few months, lost a few files and moved on to ext3 at the time. I think his press notoriety came soon after that.
The premise of this post is incorrect. ReiserFS stuck around for almost two decades after his crime. The reason it’s being removed has very little to do with his crime and more to do with the stability and maintenance capabilities of it. For reference, his wife was missing in 2006. He was prosecuted in 2008. It was deprecated in 2022 and scheduled to be removed in 2025. How does someone believe that it’s due to his h…
i still use reiserfs - i can store more tiny files than the others. I was disappointed when testing Btrfs as it used more space and became corrupted easier, even when using compression.
Maybe I am too numb, but I do not see problem here. People in prison should be allowed to work. He is serving his sentence. Where is the problem? One day he will be out of prison. Does it mean he should never ever be allowed to work again? US has a problem with "prison vengeance", where prisoners are not allowed to even have a TV. But it would be cheaper and decrease overall crime. Current prison system is just raisi…
>US has a problem with "prison vengeance", where prisoners are not allowed to even have a TV. But it would be cheaper and decrease overall crime. Current prison system is just raising more criminals. we americcans don't rehabilitate. We just want homeless off the street and out of mind. Clearly if you did a bad thing in life you are a bad person and deserve everything taken from you. California (a more progressive st…
But listening to what he has to say towards the end here, even now after all this time, all I hear is:
He expresses remourse that he wasn't smart enough to press the right buttons to get the right responses out of everyone else.
He regrets that this miscalculation resulted in him failing to achieve his goals.
He litterally only says it that way. Not "It must have really sucked dealing with me. What a dick I was...", just "it was a mistake not taking other people's feelings into account"
The kernel credits are interesting.
That is a little more possibly genuine. It seems genuine, that he really wants them to be acknowledged simply because they should be and not because he calculated that it makes him look better.
But I don't know how materially valuable that might be for parole reasons. If it might make even a little difference there, then you can't trust it, because this is not a benefit of the doubt situation, this is a known entity who has already manipulated others many times, and so now it no longer matters that an act might finally be genuine this time, it makes no sense to assume that in this case.
But in my own example of pressing buttons, I try not to shit on behavior I want to see. All else being equal I want to just accept that small act as good on it's face and leave it at that.
Also because it seems petty not to, because he gets nothing else at least from me, forever, because his wife can't be forgiven and redemptioned back to life.
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Detail, but I think this part here is slightly off: > Fast forward to March 1998. Saint Petersburg. A cafe next to a canal. Hans is meeting a woman. Nina Sharanova. A mail-order bride. According to his Wikipedia entry, Nina was the interpreter involved when he arranged to meet a mail-order bride: > In 1998, while working in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Reiser reportedly arranged to meet a Russian woman he selected from…
Interesting! That I did not know. The book didn't present that way, unless I missed something. Why was a doctor working as a translator I wonder?
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Sometimes the artist put too much of themselves in the work. For example: I tried reading Orson Scott Card's Iron Man comics and there was just too much homophobic nonsense throughout.
i stopped reading the ringworld series by larry niven when i found that he kept repeating how sex was used to seal a business transaction. it added nothing to the story and just seemed like wishful thinking from the author. i can't blame them for it. it's only natural. when i write there is a lot of my personality in it too. in part that is the point and in many cases it is what makes a work worth reading. unless it…
I'm not saying I don't believe you. Whatever it is you're talking about is probably in there.
I'm saying maybe you were just super sensitive to something that was actually insignificant.
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ReiserFS is named after the author, which is an oddity among file systems or open source projects in general. I wonder if it would have seen further development if it had been named something else.
Bourne shell -> Stephen Bourne
KSH (Korn shell) -> David Korn
AWK -> Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, Brian Kernighan
Debian -> Debra & Ian Murdoch
MySQL -> My Widenius
MariaDB -> Maria Widenius
DJBdns -> Daniel J. Bernstein
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i stopped reading the ringworld series by larry niven when i found that he kept repeating how sex was used to seal a business transaction. it added nothing to the story and just seemed like wishful thinking from the author. i can't blame them for it. it's only natural. when i write there is a lot of my personality in it too. in part that is the point and in many cases it is what makes a work worth reading. unless it…
I read the whole series and don't remember this at all, even a single example let alone appearing so repeatedly that it became noticeable and annoying. I'm not saying I don't believe you. Whatever it is you're talking about is probably in there. I'm saying maybe you were just super sensitive to something that was actually insignificant.
and if i may say so, i suspect that in general reference to sex is so common that many of us don't notice. it doesn't bother me but i simply don't care for it when it's not a significant plot element. i grew up without any exposure to this kind of theme.