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This is your third nearly identical post in this thread. Is it so important to you that people don't find value in something you think isn't notable?
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#52""This is one person who has a similar diagnosis to Terry who then
goes on to say "I dont have these .... symptoms"".
Good for you. I am happy for you. (truly)
But to then extend that to everyone with a similar diagnosis, as some form of universal fact is entirely wrong.
Delusion and paranoid delusions are common symptoms of schizophrenia¹. Common does not mean everyone for sure has them, just that many do.
In so far as schizophrenia does not make you racists that is true, but you do not get to pick your delusions. They may be an amplification of existing opinions, but for many they are not. Further to blame a person who is delusional for having a view of the world that is not normal, well that is the entire description of delusions.
Can you blame a person who stutters for stuttering?
Thus one should extend a lot of tolerance to a person who has a terrible illness that no way is self-afflicted and one that we do not yet have a dependable cure for.
I am certain that at some point in this life Terry desperately wished to be “normal”. Farther into it, and getting deeper into the illness the understanding of normal vs abnormal may be a difficult concept to understand for the person.
I have had schizophrenia in my family, and I have visited her at the hospital. Where there were a lot of other schizophrenics. Clearly only those who suffer a lot and who may become violent ad self-harming, ends up at such a place long term.
Some of the people there had an incredibly different reality that they existed within.
We should extend a generous amount of tolerance for people who are ill and suffer from this. To get angry and tell them to stop and tell then they are wrong may well cause a deeper fall into paranoia.
This is not something people chose. Nor is it something we have a reliable cure for. Some can be greatly helped with medication and / or therapy. Other not.
¹ https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/conditions/schizophrenia/sy... https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/schizophrenia/w...
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#54Not to trivialise his achievement, but I'd be willing to wager any moderately competent systems programmer, if given 10+ years and no other commitments (work or family) could write a programming language, compiler, and real mode operating system for an x86_64 system. Side note, why were Ticketmaster hiring systems programmers writing such low level code? I grew up in the 90s/00s so missed this era of computing.
The question is why more people have not done it. A bit like picassos answer to someone saying to him about his art "I could have done that!!" being "why haven't you?" I would put templeos at the same level as art in that it's the creation and life rather than the craft or utility. Or in other words there is something transcendental about the project which would go beyond (but not technically) something a competent s…
Others have done it, but not many.
You can find such projects in sourceforge.
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#55Not to trivialise his achievement, but I'd be willing to wager any moderately competent systems programmer, if given 10+ years and no other commitments (work or family) could write a programming language, compiler, and real mode operating system for an x86_64 system. Side note, why were Ticketmaster hiring systems programmers writing such low level code? I grew up in the 90s/00s so missed this era of computing.
The question is why more people have not done it. A bit like picassos answer to someone saying to him about his art "I could have done that!!" being "why haven't you?" I would put templeos at the same level as art in that it's the creation and life rather than the craft or utility. Or in other words there is something transcendental about the project which would go beyond (but not technically) something a competent s…
> The question is why more people have not done it.
What practical value does it bring outside of 15 minute awe from internet nerds? No sarcasm.
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#56RIP Terry Davis.
And remember that feds glow in the dark.
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#57Not to trivialise his achievement, but I'd be willing to wager any moderately competent systems programmer, if given 10+ years and no other commitments (work or family) could write a programming language, compiler, and real mode operating system for an x86_64 system. Side note, why were Ticketmaster hiring systems programmers writing such low level code? I grew up in the 90s/00s so missed this era of computing.
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> I could program Facebook in a weekend, but I chose not to. Not to trivialise how complicated Facebook is.
Yes, you could create clone of the original Facebook in a weekend. I can say that without trivializing Facebook as a product.
Trivializing it would be “I could write current Facebook in a week that would operate on the same scale”.
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#58> Let’s be clear: schizophrenia does not cause racism Depends on the type of racism. If it's a false sense of superiority - probably the most common type of racism - well, maybe. But if it's the belief that some type of people are hostile to you for some reason, and your personality makes it so that you return it, then it is a persecutory delusion, just like conspiracy theories.
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It's not notable.
Then why is it frequently shared and discussed etc.? That is, frequently noted.
Because internet loves mystery and hype?
Ask your colleagues if they heard about, and if they heard about it what is noticeable about it.
Majority of internet see “Ooh, that’s not Linux, Windows, Mac and has a lot of custom things written from scratch”. And also funni racist genius schizo.
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
The question is why more people have not done it. A bit like picassos answer to someone saying to him about his art "I could have done that!!" being "why haven't you?" I would put templeos at the same level as art in that it's the creation and life rather than the craft or utility. Or in other words there is something transcendental about the project which would go beyond (but not technically) something a competent s…
> The question is why more people have not done it. What practical value does it bring outside of 15 minute awe from internet nerds? No sarcasm.
> What practical value does it bring outside of 15 minute awe from internet nerds?
I think that's exactly the point - it doesn't. That's why it's an artpiece.