Re:Open letter from the BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg
by dqpb on Friday December 17, 2021 @01:36PM
(#29596304)
Well, I wasn't saying that there should be specially endowed people, I was asking about the reverse: how can someone who is not informed fact-check someone who is?
Or to make it less personal, how can someone fact-check information they aren't knowledgeable about?
Re:Open letter from the BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg
by pcwalton on Friday December 17, 2021 @03:15PM
(#29597793)
Tanenbaum was in fact right. Monolithic kernel design has caused no end of problems, which is why modern OS's (including Linux!) are moving a lot into userspace. See Windows moving font parsing out of the kernel, macOS DriverKit, Linux uio, etc.
Re:Open letter from the BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg
by DarylZero on Friday December 17, 2021 @01:33PM
(#29596255)
You spelled Minix wrong and told the story wrong.
Not the best way to make an argument against fact-checking.
Re:Open letter from the BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg
by OldManAndTheCpp on Friday December 17, 2021 @01:36PM
(#29596303)
> While I could go into a long story here about the relative merits of the
two designs, suffice it to say that among the people who actually design
operating systems, the debate is essentially over. Microkernels have won.
https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.minix/c/wlhw16QWltI
I will concede that I spelled 'minix' wrong.
Re:Open letter from the BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg
by DarylZero on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @10:58AM
(#29638609)
> operating system researchers widely believe
Tanenbaum did SAY that, but that is different from it being true.
Fact-checking doesn't mean just accepting the declaration of the more credentialed party in a debate that their view is expert consensus.
The premise that there are some specially endowed people who, by virtue of their credentials, are the only ones able to mark things as true sounds like the core tenants of a religion, not a secular society!