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

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Post by zichy »

reeteshv wrote: post #99
zichy wrote: post #87

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What are you talking about? Do you grasp the basic difference between a security vulnerability and a mentally ill homeless person?

I understand your scepticism about my ability to grasp basic differences, considering that we have never met nor interacted before. Hence, this clarification... As per my understanding, there is plenty of Drama in the security vulnerability incident - Intel CEO selling a large chunk of stock after the company was informed of the vulnerability; the differing views on the actual performance impact of the patches, the d…

> I understand your scepticism about my ability to grasp basic differences, considering that we have never met nor interacted before.

Since we have never interacted before, I have to rate you on the basis of your few sentences which I read here, don’t I?

> Hence, this clarification...

There's no clarification in your post. You still don’t get the difference between the two things. You don’t have to explain me which kind of vulnerability "drama" there was, I know about that.

> […] I was trying to clarify that there have always been dramatic posts/comments on HN. Therefore, sharing an article from r/Drama sub-reddit didn't seem sacrilegious to me.

I know that there are "dramatic" posts on HN, but what kind of justification is that? If you want to talk about the personal life of a mentally ill homeless person, the main source shouldn’t be a site where people have an interest in "blowing everything out of proportion and making literally everything as dramatic as possible". It has nothing to do with any technical topic and it’s not funny. That’s my whole point.

> I apologise if I have offended your sensibilities...

How old are you, 14?

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

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Post by myaso »

stevenh wrote: post #106
myaso wrote: post #70

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Just donated 5$/month, will keep it up for a year at least. PayPal transactions take a bit of time to go through -- the hardest part was filling out the details :( I really don't have the resources to arbitrarily afford charity, but fuck it -- I spend more money on coffee in a month and it's been too cold to wander around for a while here. It must feel really awful to some people who make 6 figure salaries to part wi…

I'd ask you to explain how all libertarians are Nazis but then I guess I'd be taking the bait.

You'd be taking the bait if you actually made a donation to Terry.

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

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Post by dingaling »

DanBC wrote: post #67
terminalcommand wrote: post #29

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The console of today's youth is in the browsers. Any kid can open the developer's console and start typing JavaScript, the results are displayed immediately on the screen. Considering that JavaScript has it's roots in Scheme, it is a good language for kids to experiment on. For learning lower level constructs maybe Webassembly will help the future generations. The interested kids can also purchase raspberry pi s and…

Javascript is a terrible language for children to start with.

On the contrary I think it's ideal. It can adopt any paradigm you like to learn; imperative, OO, functional...

Just open the console and start typing. Results are immediate. No need for linking libraries or setting-up a virtualenv or whatever.

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

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Post by supreme_sublime »

b6 wrote: post #85
krapp wrote: post #43

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Unfortunately, he was born into a society that would prefer the mentally ill take care of themselves.

I can't lay that much blame on society. Have you tried to take care of a mentally ill person? It's common for them to make it extremely difficult. Schizophrenia often seems to cause its sufferers to be absolutely certain they are not mentally ill at all. I've walked around for hours looking for a mentally ill woman to give her a care package, only to be attacked by her a few days afterward.

It really is sad. The only schizophrenic person I've interacted with was thankfully on medication and it seemed to help a lot. A very sweet elderly woman. I have spent a decent amount of time watching https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaUOTQQBc3EO5sVjVusMn8A

She is a schizophrenic woman in Boston iirc. Watching her delusions and obsession with various objects is fascinating and heartbreaking. I really want to talk to her just to try to understand better. I think it is impossible simply because something is wrong inside her brain. I wouldn't be able to rationalize why traffic cones aren't some kind of grand conspiracy of the Patriarchy. I think she is homeless now, I hope she gets the help she desperately needs.

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

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Post by illumilichen »

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

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Post by bjoli »

tonyedgecombe wrote: post #77
crististm wrote: post #57

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Saying that JS has roots in Scheme is like saying English has roots in Chinese.

From http://speakingjs.com/es5/ch04.html "In 1995, Netscape hired Brendan Eich with the promise of letting him implement Scheme (a Lisp dialect) in the browser."

And he has stated several times that he was disappointed that it wasn't scheme he was going to implement.

JS is good at being JS, but it has never been close to being scheme.

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

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Post by stevenh »

myaso wrote: post #112
stevenh wrote: post #106

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I'd ask you to explain how all libertarians are Nazis but then I guess I'd be taking the bait.

You'd be taking the bait if you actually made a donation to Terry.

I've donated hundreds. He told me to stop on a livestream because he was worried it would cause him to lose his disability payments.

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

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Post by myaso »

stevenh wrote: post #117
myaso wrote: post #112

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You'd be taking the bait if you actually made a donation to Terry.

I've donated hundreds. He told me to stop on a livestream because he was worried it would cause him to lose his disability payments.

Telling the truth is easy and pleasant -- he would disable his account if that was the case. Prove you are not lying. Link with irrefutable evidence given the constraint of keeping necessary information confidential.

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

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Post by deadmetheny »

myaso wrote: post #118
stevenh wrote: post #117

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I've donated hundreds. He told me to stop on a livestream because he was worried it would cause him to lose his disability payments.

Telling the truth is easy and pleasant -- he would disable his account if that was the case. Prove you are not lying. Link with irrefutable evidence given the constraint of keeping necessary information confidential.

>Prove you are not lying. Link with irrefutable evidence given the constraint of keeping necessary information confidential.

This is hilariously overblown for a forum post, dude. Chill out.

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

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Post by myaso »

deadmetheny wrote: post #119
myaso wrote: post #118

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Telling the truth is easy and pleasant -- he would disable his account if that was the case. Prove you are not lying. Link with irrefutable evidence given the constraint of keeping necessary information confidential.

>Prove you are not lying. Link with irrefutable evidence given the constraint of keeping necessary information confidential. This is hilariously overblown for a forum post, dude. Chill out.

"a mind for strategy and tactics you have not" -- wise master myaso

Thou shall not make me chill.

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