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Re: Mega Man for TempleOS

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Post by pekk » Tue, Mar 28, 2017, 4:00 PM UTC

executesorder66 wrote: post #125

adrianratnapala wrote: post #99

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Meaning is hard. What know I cannot do is construct an coherent or even intelligible argument from the quoted paragraph. I can extract meanings from some of the sentences; but I also can see you have not even bothered to explain your objections to them. More importantly, it seems you don't even care about coherency. It looks like that to you, if something "feels bad" then it is bad.

What the hell are you talking about? > More importantly, it seems you don't even care about coherency. It looks like that to you, if something "feels bad" then it is bad. I don't understand where this is coming from. Please explain what you mean, and why you think that. > but I also can see you have not even bothered to explain your objections to them. My objection was that the parent post claimed the quote was "word…

You offer interpretations of several sentences. These interpretations are guesswork. Even if we take your interpretations as perfectly correct, they don't knit together into any coherent message.

The man is schizophrenic. You are holding him to account for a kind of performance that he is biologically not equipped to provide. He isn't harming anyone and as far as anyone can interpret what he says, many times he uses words like "nigger" he is complaining about things like how we have made computing overcomplicated. I think it's worth it to cut the guy a break.

That doesn't mean we accept racism in general, it means we don't have to pick on people who can't help the way they express themselves. Do we pick on people with Tourette's for saying bad words?

Re: Mega Man for TempleOS

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Post by pekk » Tue, Mar 28, 2017, 4:03 PM UTC

Kiro wrote: post #102

phpnode wrote: post #101

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A sufferer of schizophrenia is not guilty of the way their condition manifests. They are the victim of an illness.

You can't just blame it all on the sickness. He's apparently an extreme racist, crazy or not. The way you put it sounds like he doesn't even exist and is all just the sickness.

Having read a lot of what he's said, he uses words and phrases in an idiosyncratic way that isn't the same as they would be used by, say, a politician. He may or may not be racist, but he's schizophrenic so we should probably chill out on him and go police someone who isn't schizophrenic instead.

Re: Mega Man for TempleOS

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Post by nikolasavic » Tue, Mar 28, 2017, 4:08 PM UTC

Vice wrote a piece on him in 2014: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gods-lonely-progr...

He drinks a lot of caffeine and lives mostly on a 48-hour schedule: "I stay awake 16 * 2 and sleep 8 * 2."

Re: Mega Man for TempleOS

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Post by dajohnson89 » Tue, Mar 28, 2017, 4:14 PM UTC

pkd wrote: post #78

runeks wrote: post #71

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You've got me curious. Who's Terry? And where can I see one of his videos?

One should probably add a trigger warning. He is schizophrenic and not quite himself at times, especially in the comments. Not to take away from his technical feats.

I think it's worth being specific here -- he uses the word "nigger" frequently and regularly makes other nasty comments about black people and other minorities.

Re: Mega Man for TempleOS

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Post by register » Tue, Mar 28, 2017, 4:30 PM UTC

Did I understand correctly that HolyC is a C like dynamic Language with AOT compilation and dynamic binding? Does this mean that functions can be redefined in the REPL while the code is running? Looks like a pretty cool language!

Re: Mega Man for TempleOS

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Post by panglott » Tue, Mar 28, 2017, 4:46 PM UTC

dajohnson89 wrote: post #134

pkd wrote: post #78

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One should probably add a trigger warning. He is schizophrenic and not quite himself at times, especially in the comments. Not to take away from his technical feats.

I think it's worth being specific here -- he uses the word "nigger" frequently and regularly makes other nasty comments about black people and other minorities.

When I've seen his website in the past, the crazy religious stuff has always been there, which I can look past, but now it seems like the crazy racist stuff is way way more prominent, which I just cannot.

Re: Mega Man for TempleOS

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Post by ad-hominem » Tue, Mar 28, 2017, 4:53 PM UTC

pkd wrote: post #78

runeks wrote: post #71

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You've got me curious. Who's Terry? And where can I see one of his videos?

One should probably add a trigger warning. He is schizophrenic and not quite himself at times, especially in the comments. Not to take away from his technical feats.

Is it fair to say he is "not quite himself"?

Maybe he is perfectly 100% himself, that just happens to be schizophrenic and racist.

Re: Mega Man for TempleOS

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Post by pmarreck » Tue, Mar 28, 2017, 5:15 PM UTC

BuildTheRobots wrote: post #117

Mithaldu wrote: post #98

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At first i thought that was a bit of an exaggeration, but after listening to him talk in his "What God Wants in Music" video, that is actually a reasonable request to make. He very casually and without warning declares things that might easily make traumatized people relive things.

Well that was unexpected [1]. I can kinda see what he means, but I'm not sure I'd use the same simile. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozt2d8t8hIU

jesus, right in the first minute, goddamn

Re: Mega Man for TempleOS

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Post by krylon » Tue, Mar 28, 2017, 5:28 PM UTC

bri3d wrote: post #73

krylon wrote: post #72

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Isn't that exactly what God would want? I just wonder how long it'll take for some heretical sect to start a fork and add blasphemous features like networking or 32-bit colors... ;-)

Fear not: https://github.com/minexew/Shrine

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, as Bad Religion used to sing. ;-) (NB what a great name for a band that is in this context!)

Re: Mega Man for TempleOS

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Post by executesorder66 » Tue, Mar 28, 2017, 5:40 PM UTC

pekk wrote: post #131

executesorder66 wrote: post #125

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What the hell are you talking about? > More importantly, it seems you don't even care about coherency. It looks like that to you, if something "feels bad" then it is bad. I don't understand where this is coming from. Please explain what you mean, and why you think that. > but I also can see you have not even bothered to explain your objections to them. My objection was that the parent post claimed the quote was "word…

You offer interpretations of several sentences. These interpretations are guesswork. Even if we take your interpretations as perfectly correct, they don't knit together into any coherent message. The man is schizophrenic. You are holding him to account for a kind of performance that he is biologically not equipped to provide. He isn't harming anyone and as far as anyone can interpret what he says, many times he uses…

Yes, of course I can't (nor anyone else) know for certain exactly what someone else means when they communicate.

> Even if we take your interpretations as perfectly correct, they don't knit together into any coherent message.

Well I guess we differ on this point and that's okay. The overall message I got from that quote was that every group has a stereotype, and one's actions affect the stereotype of your race. And so you should stick up for yourself.

That makes sense to me.

For the record, I am not judging the guy, and I don't care if what he says offends people. I know he has mental health issues, and that it affects the things he thinks/says.

I was just saying that the quote was not "word salad", according to the definition I provided. If no one else can see the gist of what he is saying then fine. I guess we all see patterns differently.