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TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van

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Re: TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van

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Post by erric »

StanislavPetrov wrote: post #25
pavel_lishin wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do you mean? TempleOS is undoubtably a pretty interesting achievement, both in the artistic and technological sense - but Terry has serious mental issues, and we shouldn't overlook them as "oh, that's just how artists are".

In fact, if you do a careful study of history, many of the best artists have "serious mental issues". The question is, how do we define "serious mental issues" and "art"? I don't think its a coincidence that people with off-the-charts creativity are mentally different than most other people. If your thought process is that far removed from others in regards to art ("creativity"), then it only stands to reason that yo…

At least in the US, the DSMV is used to define "serious mental issues" while everywhere "art" is completely subjective.

I don't disagree with the premise of very creative people having very different though processes from the majority. There is a very fine line between genius and insanity.

Re: TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van

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Post by NicoJuicy »

founderling wrote: post #24

He has a donate button on his homepage. I wonder if that brings in something? Anybody here who ever used a donate button on their website and can tell something about it? How does one even receive 'donations'? Is that like getting paid? Do they have to create an invoice for tax reasons? How is it taxed? It would be nice if there was a number, how much is donated per month. I can imagine donating something. Depending…

http://www.templeos.org/ on top of the page is a donate button :) ( not affliated or any way. I just feel bad for him)

Re: TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van

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Post by m0ck »

grassdubious wrote: post #3

ELI5 the story behind this?

He is a schizo autistic programmer who is convinced God told him to make an OS, so he is working on it constantly for 15 years, doing nothing else (it kind of resembles Noah's Ark). He used to livestream regularly on Youtube and became popular on technology boards on 4chan, 8chan etc., for his rants about God and "CIA niggers" and generally "being a living meme". Some people there genuinely like him and even bought him that drum set he wanted, but others (given *chans reputation) just liked to screw with him to induce more rants. But he is really suffering from mental illness and should got professional treatment.

Re: TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van

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Post by pjmlp »

mrob wrote: post #8

TempleOS has no process isolation, so it's completely unaffected by Spectre and Meltdown. I'm starting to think there's a lot of wisdom in its design. Complexity of modern computer systems keeps increasing but the value I get from that complexity isn't increasing nearly as fast. Spectre and Meltdown are just recent examples of some of the cost of that complexity. Do we really need an OS too complex for any one person…

It follows the same design ideas of Smalltalk, Lisp Machines, Mesa/Cedar, Lillith, Oberon, JavaOS, ....

The idea being that the isolation can be achieved via the language type system, instead of extra hardware.

Re: TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van

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Post by galfarragem »

rootlocus wrote: post #16
tscs37 wrote: post #6

The amount of dedication Terry shows for his project is beyond what you see anywhere else in the software dev space. For anyone who hasn't, I recommend to watch his videos on TempleOS (there are a lot of hymn videos or ranting videos, you can ignore those), they are a genuinely interesting perspective into OS Development.

> The amount of dedication Terry shows for his project is beyond what you see anywhere else in the software dev space. I'd say Linus Torvalds shows at least the same amount of dedication to the linux kernel.

AFAIK, Tarn and Zach Adams also (Dwarf Fortress).

Re: TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van

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Post by shirian »

StanislavPetrov wrote: post #25
pavel_lishin wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do you mean? TempleOS is undoubtably a pretty interesting achievement, both in the artistic and technological sense - but Terry has serious mental issues, and we shouldn't overlook them as "oh, that's just how artists are".

In fact, if you do a careful study of history, many of the best artists have "serious mental issues". The question is, how do we define "serious mental issues" and "art"? I don't think its a coincidence that people with off-the-charts creativity are mentally different than most other people. If your thought process is that far removed from others in regards to art ("creativity"), then it only stands to reason that yo…

Art in Swedish is "konst" which is the base for the word "konstig" which means, literally, weird or odd. I'm pretty sure there's a reason for that etymology.

Re: TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van

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Post by gt_ »

kentiko wrote: post #30
newsbinator wrote: post #4

When I googled I found more details here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Drama/comments/7218gh/templeos_crea... > Despite the mean spirited attention he gets, he does have a following of people who seem to genuinly feel for him, and want to do nice things for him. One thing his followers did which at least seemed well intentioned was buying him a drum set. Terry likes to use drum sticks, but didn't have a set, so a gofundm…

It blows my mind that a mental ill person is ending up homeless like this. Society should take care of theses cases.

The closest thing we offer is prison these days. :(
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