Trigger warning: abuse, suicide First off, I'm not taking about guys who call themselves nice and act like manipulative jerks. I'm talking about people who are legitimately nice, caring and loving. As such, this doesn't only apply to men. Storytime: a good number of years ago, I got to know someone who I not too long after started a relationship with. She was loving, kind, and caring - really, what I look for when it comes to relationship material. Except... She still lived at home, and her "mother" was horrifically abusive. Unfortunately, also very intelligent, so that she was always a couple of steps ahead of you. Well, she also got abusive towards me very quickly but was such a master of manipulation and Gaslighting that I had no clue what the fuck was going on. I also didn't know how abuse worked, so I was ripe for the picking. A year and a horrific half later, I got "kicked out" (in other words, my then girlfriend was gaslit into projecting all of the faults of her own mother onto me leading to a messy breakup) because I started asking too many questions and didn't simply accept what I was being told, including that I allegedly had memory problems (which turned out to be pure and utter bullshit to gaslight me). So, I finished last, I lost the person who I thought was going to be the love of my life and I was ready to marry eventually. You know who also finished last? The women who would have liked to been with her father, who is a great guy. The likelihood that any one of them could have been worse than her is exceedingly small. You have to achieve that kind of evil first. My ex? Still living at her parents' place. Word made it around that my ex's and her father's cars at some point regularly had nails and screws under their tires, which mysteriously stopped when one of the father's friends told him "you know exactly who did that if you're honest with yourself". Well, I did a shit ton of reading on psychology and abuse to understand what the hell I went through. And also in the hopes of helping them, but as mentioned, it didn't work. But the fact that I know so much about it, have experienced it myself and tend to try and listen to people when they tell me about their situations means that I seem to be a magnet for victims of abuse. I always try to help. I know how awful my situation was and if I can help someone out of a similar situation, I will do what I can. But it's often frustrating. But I actually was able to help someone out of an abusive situation. After a suicide attempt due to the effects of the abuse I landed in the hospital, and got to know someone there fairly well. She was also in an abusive situation. And I actually was able to help her out of it! Mind you, it was after I had lost count of her suicide attempts, but hey, you take the victories you get. So hey, at least in that situation it wasn't as bad... But fast forward to the last few months. A colleague I've known for a little over a year and a half tells me more and more about her friend with benefits. She tells me almost right from the start, that it's a toxic relationship. I hoped it's not that bad. After a couple of tell tale signs too many, yup, it's abuse. Long story short, we also started developing feelings for each other and were hoping to help each other through what we were dealing with. Well, the fwb made sure to fuck it up. She even said, otherwise, she's an afterthought for him (even though he expects to be at the top of her priority list), but in a case where he might lose her, he will fight for her. When I asked how, she described exactly what he did in my case. But still doesn't see that he did it in my case. And now the feelings she told me about apparently weren't feelings but something else, and he's suddenly not as bad and besides the constant manipulation and if you ask me rapey behavior, he's actually quite OK... Like don't get me wrong, my primary concern is that she gets out of that situation, which doesn't look particularly likely at the moment, but to get back to the topic, yet another case of the nice guy finished last. Rant over. TL;DR: fuck abusers and the people who enable them. And why the fuck are they often more successful than the people who don't abuse people.
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Reminds me of an ad from over a decade ago. (For those who speak German: youtube, sorry, I want able to get an invidious Link working )
A woman is sitting at a bar, and a man in a suit comes up and sits right next to her, taps his car keys on the table, and then lays them on the table and moves them towards her.
"400 horsepower, 12 cylinders, top speed 296..." He nods proudly. "Tomorrow evening 7 o'clock?"
She grabs a large key on her keychain and shows it to him: "10,877 horsepower, top speed 330, tomorrow morning, 8:43..." She puts the key on the table and pushes it next to his key. "...track 7".
The ad was from the German railroad attempting to recruit drivers.
It's an announcement to stay as far away as possible from whoever said that. Might even call it negging.
I mean, we could say the same thing about Kent - when he's getting pissy, it's about ensuring the filesystem is bulletproof and no one loses data.
Thing is, we're not talking about getting pissy. We're talking about getting downright insulting and borderline abusive. Linus got suspended from his own goddamn Kernel for his behavior. Let that sink in for a moment.
And I honestly believe that's where part of the problem comes from. Kent looks up to Linus in a way, and sees himself as entitled to mimicking Linus's bad behavior, which turns into a clusterfuck. Linux is still a good kernel despite Linus's behavior, and bcachefs seems to be pretty good from a technical standpoint despite Kent's behavior (even the kernel maintainers Kent pissed off admit it). They both shouldn't be behaving that way, period. But both are very talented from a technical standpoint, which makes policing their behavior that much harder.
Ideally, yes, someone else would take over communication with Linus, but my hope isn't particularly high at the moment. I wish Kent would calm down (further) and play by the rules more (even though he's far from the only one who has broken those rules), and I wish Linus would learn to take it as much as he dishes it out.
And that makes it such a shame: bcachefs would be great to have in the kernel from a technical standpoint. It's the personal conflicts that are really messing things up at the moment.
I'm not saying it shouldn't be safer. I would much rather see Amtrak there, in large part because of their safety record. What I'm saying is that Bright line is still safer than cars. So yes, ensure Bright line increases its safety standards, but it's not a reason to argue against expansion of the Brightline network (unless, for instance, you want to argue for Amtrak expansion instead - then I would be on board), as it still is shifting people from a more dangerous to a safer mode of transit, even if there is plenty of room for improvement in that safer mode of transit.
The point of these next gen file systems aren't raw performance, they are reliability, performance for specific cases, and reduced data usage. For example:
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Copy on Write means it's very performant to create snapshots
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incremental backups are much quicker
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checksumming means the filesystem directly and reliably detects data corruption
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built-in support for raid means a simplified setup and integration of scrubbing features into the filesystem, which can then take advantage of checksumming etc.
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deduplication can automatically recognize duplicated data and as such reduce data use
These are things that tend to reduce performance, not increase it. Which is why, when performance on these filesystems stays the same or even increases, that's a major accomplishment.
It's not quite as one sided as you put it, either. The most recent last minute feature was pushed for rc3, and wasn't big filled. It was also a feature that enhanced stability, which is the reason Kent submitted it there. I'm not saying he's right, but it's important context here. And he's far from the only one who has done this. Someone recently added new hardware support in rc7.
Also, he has improved somewhat. Arguably not as much as he should, but things aren't as bad as they originally were.
And as to the attitude - he's in good company, honestly. Especially in regard to Linus, them judging Kent is like a group of lepers judging a beauty contest. That's the point this article makes very well.
None of this excuses his behaviour, but it is important to put it into context.
Ob Döner oder Drehspieß hat nur mit dem Fleischanteil zu tun. Hähnchendöner darf es nach wie vor geben. Also zumindest theoretisch machen sie da nichts falsch solange der Fleischanteil hoch genug ist.
Do you even know how many people are killed by cars each year? This is nothing compared to that. Most cases cited here are because people acted completely recklessly. The same can't be said about many car accidents.
Ich möchte nicht wissen, wer ihn ersetzt. Bei dem aktuellen Druck von der Politik kann das nicht gut werden. Ich befürchte schon Mehdorn 2.0
As @myotheraccount mentioned, this is 330km/h, but yes, they still need drivers. On the high speed lines, the train can do quite a bit on its own, but you still need a driver to take care of the stops at stations, for non-high speed sections which generally don't have the automation infrastructure, and for the case the something doesn't work or go as intended.
There's not much of a need to "keep an eye on the machines", they're pretty sturdy, made to go at that speed and have gone through a number of tests to ensure everything works the way it should. Unless we're doing a test run, but that's another story.