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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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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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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.
I don't agree, and I know many people who also would disagree. Another point of view is that perhaps some people don't deserve dignity, but I'm not knowledgeable enough to know which ones and only an omniscient supernatural being would know enough to make that judgment.
For me, this is the most memorable statement that concept; probably not the best, but it's where I first grasped it:[0]
Frodo: It's a pity Bilbo didn't kill him when he had the chance.
Gandalf: Pity? It was pity that stayed Bilbo's hand. Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all ends.
Also, I don't know of anyone who should throw stones. I hope I'm treated with dignity when I make mistakes; certainly nothing is gained when I'm not.
[0] There are at least a couple variations I found in a quick search; don't take this one as authoritative.
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I really don't understand this community sometimes. If you are going to downvote a comment, why not explain why? Is there a perceived laziness? Or have I missed something??? At least let me know what is / isn't appropriate
"Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That is largely interpreted as 'mostly refrain from talking about voting'. Keep in mind, downvoting here happens for many different reasons, it's not always negative and it is best not to take it personally or make assumptions about why it's happening. You could think of it as symmetric to upvoting & ask yourself whether you want an explanation for every upvote... maybe not? The goal is to have a high signal to noise ratio, and discussion of votes is mostly noise and almost always tangential to the article/thread.
I also didn't see the parent comment, but Terry & TempleOS have a long and complicated history here, so it might be a good idea to reserve judgement.
However it is a ring 0 only OS, with all the consequences that implies. You can make irreversible mistakes in this way, especially outside a VM.
Other OSes worth looking into are:
- Redox OS (Rust)
- MenuetOS / KolibriOS (x86-64 Assembly)
- Haiku OS
- GNU Hurd
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Because many people will have no idea what TempleOS is from the link, or the demo video on the GH page.
But if they are reading HN, surely they know how to use Google and Wikipedia and could acquire this information in seconds?
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But if they are reading HN, surely they know how to use Google and Wikipedia and could acquire this information in seconds?
as an incredibly lazy person i found it to be helpful
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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/
Weird. Makes me want to start a crusade.