Literally the main reason I sold my motorcycle last year.
Literally the main reason I sold my motorcycle last year.
No one could have predicted this totally predictable situation.
In rough chronological order: Basic, Pascal, 6800 asm, 68000 asm, C, Smalltalk, Python, Java, Javascript. Worked with but wouldn’t claim to “know”: Fortran, COBOL, Prolog, Lisp, C++, Rust, Go.
“We should do this more often*.”
*One more time before the heat death of the Universe. Maybe.
It was fine when it was someone else’s kid, though. You should be able to feel this outrage when it happens to anyone, anywhere. But that’s seldom how it goes.
I’m not a doctor but he certainly seems neurodivergent based on his writing. It’s hard to imagine him ever changing in some significant way and being “rehabilitated” enough to be allowed back into society, hence the “some evidence”. It’s might be best he remains in jail rather than be paroled.
He did mention the murder of his wife and said he would detail his regret to anyone who asked. The rest of the letter describes the “social mistakes” in dealing with co-workers and the Linux community. He even asks that those co-workers’ names be added to the credits and his negative comments about them be deleted. There’s no forgiving what he did to his wife but there’s at least some evidence he’s changed since that happened.
Any armchair psychologists care to weigh in on Elmo?
We certainly have lost spelling and punctuation.
It just needed a monkey with a tip cup.