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

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Post by kazinator »

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…

Any program containing some 50-100 KLOC or more is too complex for any one person to completely understand. (Even if that person wrote the whole thing: he or she will have to refer to the documentation, and puzzle over code written months or years ago to figure out what is going on.)

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

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Post by pm90 »

slowmotiony wrote: post #54
3131s wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And he also posts on HN, but last time I checked his account is shadow-banned.

He gets banned whenever he posts because his mental illness is taking over and he can't help but include slurs in his messages. Snowflake mods then usually either delete his posts (like on reddit), shadowban him or just ban his whole account. Which is really a shame because ignoring the slurs, his posts give you a lot of insights into his mind.

Mods have good reason to ban him if his comments are peppered with racial slurs: they are doing their fucking job. Mental illness is no excuse for racism. Calling the mods Snowflakes is going a little too far IMO.

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

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Post by stevenh »

klez wrote: post #110
stevenh wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

"Ubermensch" doesn't imply "nazism". It's a nietzschean concept referring to humanity going beyond itself, and was then adopted by nazism to refer to a man of pure race, which is not what Nietzsche was talking about.

He wasn't thinking of Nietzsche when he used the word. It's trendy now to accuse libertarians of being neo-Nazis.

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

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Post by myaso »

stevenh wrote: post #133
klez wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Ubermensch" doesn't imply "nazism". It's a nietzschean concept referring to humanity going beyond itself, and was then adopted by nazism to refer to a man of pure race, which is not what Nietzsche was talking about.

He wasn't thinking of Nietzsche when he used the word. It's trendy now to accuse libertarians of being neo-Nazis.

You sure like to put words in other people's mouth ;) Please tell me exactly what I'm thinking and what I meant -- I'm burning with curiosity at this point. And maybe together we can iteratively refine it.

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

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Post by stevenh »

myaso wrote: post #134
stevenh wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He wasn't thinking of Nietzsche when he used the word. It's trendy now to accuse libertarians of being neo-Nazis.

You sure like to put words in other people's mouth ;) Please tell me exactly what I'm thinking and what I meant -- I'm burning with curiosity at this point. And maybe together we can iteratively refine it.

Okay, what did you mean?

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

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Post by myaso »

stevenh wrote: post #135
myaso wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You sure like to put words in other people's mouth ;) Please tell me exactly what I'm thinking and what I meant -- I'm burning with curiosity at this point. And maybe together we can iteratively refine it.

Okay, what did you mean?

You got it totally wrong, I think you need to understand me better. I'm like the internet special forces on the harsh battlefield of the hn forum -- I dodge incoming bullets of political correctness, I roll away from bombs of guidelines of politeness designed to silence discourse, I shoot my enemies with a rifle designed to make them look stupid, I effortlessly lob grenades made of nothing but words, I pick up random wounded allies and I inspire others to keep going. I run faster and faster until momentum gathers and based upon nothing but air I cause the laws of probability to crash and I do it for no benefit to myself -- ok maybe there is some benefit for me ;)

My only fault is that I slay my enemies too efficiently, I had an excellent sparing partner. I will extend an olive branch and make it easy for you. I lied about donating to Terry

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

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Post by klez »

stevenh wrote: post #133
klez wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Ubermensch" doesn't imply "nazism". It's a nietzschean concept referring to humanity going beyond itself, and was then adopted by nazism to refer to a man of pure race, which is not what Nietzsche was talking about.

He wasn't thinking of Nietzsche when he used the word. It's trendy now to accuse libertarians of being neo-Nazis.

> Maybe some people can start acting like the ubermensch they pretend to be from their libertarian ideology.

I know that libertarians are often accused of being Nazis, but how I read that phrase was a general "you libertarians think you are such superior beings, start acting like it".

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

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Post by [deleted] »

myaso wrote: post #136
stevenh wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Okay, what did you mean?

You got it totally wrong, I think you need to understand me better. I'm like the internet special forces on the harsh battlefield of the hn forum -- I dodge incoming bullets of political correctness , I roll away from bombs of guidelines of politeness designed to silence discourse , I shoot my enemies with a rifle designed to make them look stupid , I effortlessly lob grenades made of nothing but words , I pick up ra…

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

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Post by dang »

myaso wrote: post #70
NicoJuicy wrote: post #32

I know he's perhaps not mentally stable, but after all. He has problems and he does some amazing things. Perhaps consider donating on top of his page: http://www.templeos.org/ ( paypal).

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…

We've banned this account for repeatedly violating the site guidelines. Please don't create accounts to do that with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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

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Post by WillReplyfFood »

mrguyorama wrote: post #125
WillReplyfFood wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why not? What is so bad about reminding people of the good that could come from this, if it were not for the missing pieces.

Terry has created an interesting project DESPITE his illness, not BECAUSE of it. It's very likely templeOS could be even greater without it. I've experienced personal projects being helped and hindered by mental issues and obsessions. Mental illness often causes struggles in other parts of life. How much more effort could an artist (or engineer, anyone can build and create), devote to their work if they didn't have t…

The disease makes you constantly form connection between things that are not related. It is a constant creativity generator humming away. Every Shizo lives in a spynovel. In Terrys case one where he got to play the all seeing controller he imagines behind every person. The OS is the sickness and its solutions are created by the sickness.
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