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Re: Mega Man for TempleOS

#51

Post by brudgers »

knodi123 wrote: post #48
peterkelly wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here's the thing: Sometimes there are people who are exceptionally talented in a given field, yet suffer from a serious illness or disability. The symptoms can be apparent in their physique (such as Stephen Hawking), or in their mind (such as Terry Davis). I can understand why people who do not have direct experience with mental illness might have trouble separating the symptoms from the person, but I would encourage…

> I can understand why people who do not have direct experience with mental illness might have trouble separating the symptoms from the person I don't judge mania, or schizophrenia. But at what point do you stop trying to separate "the person" from the things they believe and say? He's a schizophrenic, and I can't hold that against him. But a racist, homophobic, antisemitic schizophrenic is just an asshole with a reg…

The Hacker News community deals with those behaviors the same way it deals with them when exhibited by other members of the community. Likewise, Davis' work is recognized as intellectually interesting just like other intellectually interesting work.

Re: Mega Man for TempleOS

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Post by dvt »

brudgers wrote: post #50
dvt wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've always felt sad that Terry A. Davis doesn't seem to have a very strong support system (family, friends, children, etc.). There are other brilliant people that have been diagnosed with similar illnesses (Daniel Johnston[0] comes to mind) that were able to retain their public dignity while still doing fantastic work. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Johnston

With dignity is a way of treating people. Whether I do so or not says something about me, not the other person.

That's not right. Dignity is "the state or quality of being worthy of honor or respect". Someone has (or doesn't have) dignity irrespective of how they are treated.

Re: Mega Man for TempleOS

#53

Post by corndoge »

huangc10 wrote: post #2

Per wikipedia: TempleOS (formerly J Operating System,[1] SparrowOS and LoseThos)[2] is a biblical themed lightweight operating system created over the span of a decade by the American programmer Terry A. Davis. The software is a x86-64 bit, multi-tasking, multi-cored, public domain, open source, ring-0-only, single address space, non-networked, PC operating system for recreational programming.[3] The operating system…

I'll bite.

Why did you paste a paragraph from the Wikipedia article?

Re: Mega Man for TempleOS

#54

Post by brudgers »

abrookewood wrote: post #21
notgood wrote: post #13

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Well, it seems like 640x480 is a sacred limit for display resolution so I wouldn't get my hopes up, from the F.A.Q: God said 640x480 was a covenant like circumcision. The resolution will remain 640x480 for centuries to come.

Holy cow ... The OS is such a strange mix of impressive feats and crazy conventions.

Writing an operating system is hard:

http://jvns.ca/blog/2013/12/04/day-37-how-a-keyboard-works/

Re: Mega Man for TempleOS

#55

Post by brudgers »

dvt wrote: post #52
brudgers wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With dignity is a way of treating people. Whether I do so or not says something about me, not the other person.

That's not right. Dignity is "the state or quality of being worthy of honor or respect". Someone has (or doesn't have) dignity irrespective of how they are treated.

People deserve to be treated with dignity regardless. Not doing so says something about me.

Re: Mega Man for TempleOS

#56

Post by [deleted] »

knodi123 wrote: post #48
peterkelly wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here's the thing: Sometimes there are people who are exceptionally talented in a given field, yet suffer from a serious illness or disability. The symptoms can be apparent in their physique (such as Stephen Hawking), or in their mind (such as Terry Davis). I can understand why people who do not have direct experience with mental illness might have trouble separating the symptoms from the person, but I would encourage…

> I can understand why people who do not have direct experience with mental illness might have trouble separating the symptoms from the person I don't judge mania, or schizophrenia. But at what point do you stop trying to separate "the person" from the things they believe and say? He's a schizophrenic, and I can't hold that against him. But a racist, homophobic, antisemitic schizophrenic is just an asshole with a reg…

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Re: Mega Man for TempleOS

#57

Post by dvt »

brudgers wrote: post #55
dvt wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's not right. Dignity is "the state or quality of being worthy of honor or respect". Someone has (or doesn't have) dignity irrespective of how they are treated.

People deserve to be treated with dignity regardless. Not doing so says something about me.

I think it's trivially obvious that some people do not deserve to be treated with dignity (e.g. child molesters, mass murderers, etc.). The fact that you treat them with dignity in spite of that is obviously virtuous, but they don't deserve it. As opposed to people that do: Gandhi, Jesus, MLK, and so on.

Re: Mega Man for TempleOS

#59

Post by exolymph »

corndoge wrote: post #53
huangc10 wrote: post #2

Per wikipedia: TempleOS (formerly J Operating System,[1] SparrowOS and LoseThos)[2] is a biblical themed lightweight operating system created over the span of a decade by the American programmer Terry A. Davis. The software is a x86-64 bit, multi-tasking, multi-cored, public domain, open source, ring-0-only, single address space, non-networked, PC operating system for recreational programming.[3] The operating system…

I'll bite. Why did you paste a paragraph from the Wikipedia article?

Probably because some people don't know what TempleOS is.

Re: Mega Man for TempleOS

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Post by tracker1 »

corndoge wrote: post #53
huangc10 wrote: post #2

Per wikipedia: TempleOS (formerly J Operating System,[1] SparrowOS and LoseThos)[2] is a biblical themed lightweight operating system created over the span of a decade by the American programmer Terry A. Davis. The software is a x86-64 bit, multi-tasking, multi-cored, public domain, open source, ring-0-only, single address space, non-networked, PC operating system for recreational programming.[3] The operating system…

I'll bite. Why did you paste a paragraph from the Wikipedia article?

Because many people will have no idea what TempleOS is from the link, or the demo video on the GH page.
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