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Built a 1.3M-line agent-native OS in Rust while homeless. What now?

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Re: Built a 1.3M-line agent-native OS in Rust while homeless. What now?

#31

Post by jamieoglindsey »

reachableceo wrote: post #29

Also the only activity on your account is this submission / comments on it. Not sure if this is some kind of guerrilla marketing / feel bad for me approach to stand out from the crowd or what.

What?

This is genuine. This a real life story and the life I'm currently living.

I'm not out here scamming or promoting.. I'm literally asking for a way out of the hell hole I've landed in.

I have zero support from anyone or anywhere and I'm trying to make something of my self and my life.

Have you ever been homeless on the streets?

If you need proof I can happily provide pictures of me in my tent.

Re: Built a 1.3M-line agent-native OS in Rust while homeless. What now?

#32

Post by jamieoglindsey »

ipaddr wrote: post #26
jamieoglindsey wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not vibe code. Please show me a vibe coded OS containing over 20 separate projects all merging together. A from scratch kernel, from scratch hypervisor, from scratch everything. Theres a big difference between systema architecture with AI tooling and vibe coding a little app. This is not a vibe coded application. I'm a 40 year old man. If I had the option to go get a job I would. What would I do with my dog whil…

Try this... Go beg with your dog until you make enough for a case of water and supplies (marker / board). You sell your water for a dollar until you have made enough for a cooler, ice and more water. You keep selling water daily and move locations until you are making $100 a day. You take the money get an apartment and keep saving. You take your savings and go to every rust conference / local meetup you can afford to…

I'm not going to beg on the streets tbh. I'm not willing to stoop down to begging on the streets.

I'm not looking to sell water.

I have to be honest, i don't think you understand how real life works.

Your suggestion is to to sell water to make a few pennies and that will get me £2000 for a place to live and allow me to travel the world attending rust conventions.

I'm looking for help, not silly ideas that you saw in a movie once.

Besides anything it's literally illegal to sell food based products (drinks included) here in the UK without a proper license and it could literally land me in court for tax avoidance and all sorts.

Maybe in the US things are different but here in the UK we can't just sit at the side tof he road selling water - it's 5°C out, people don't by water from beggars in the UK.

Surely this is not a serious comment?

Re: Built a 1.3M-line agent-native OS in Rust while homeless. What now?

#33

Post by bartonfink »

jamieoglindsey wrote: post #32
ipaddr wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Try this... Go beg with your dog until you make enough for a case of water and supplies (marker / board). You sell your water for a dollar until you have made enough for a cooler, ice and more water. You keep selling water daily and move locations until you are making $100 a day. You take the money get an apartment and keep saving. You take your savings and go to every rust conference / local meetup you can afford to…

I'm not going to beg on the streets tbh. I'm not willing to stoop down to begging on the streets. I'm not looking to sell water. I have to be honest, i don't think you understand how real life works. Your suggestion is to to sell water to make a few pennies and that will get me £2000 for a place to live and allow me to travel the world attending rust conventions. I'm looking for help, not silly ideas that you saw in…

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Re: Built a 1.3M-line agent-native OS in Rust while homeless. What now?

#34

Post by reachableceo »

jamieoglindsey wrote: post #31
reachableceo wrote: post #29

Also the only activity on your account is this submission / comments on it. Not sure if this is some kind of guerrilla marketing / feel bad for me approach to stand out from the crowd or what.

What? This is genuine. This a real life story and the life I'm currently living. I'm not out here scamming or promoting.. I'm literally asking for a way out of the hell hole I've landed in. I have zero support from anyone or anywhere and I'm trying to make something of my self and my life. Have you ever been homeless on the streets? If you need proof I can happily provide pictures of me in my tent.

Why do you have zero support from anyone / anywhere ? What caused you to be in that situation? What happened to family / friends ? How have you made money in the past ? Freelancing I presume ?

I’m just pointing out some things I’ve observed. You didn’t really address them, you skillfully redirected.

Re: Built a 1.3M-line agent-native OS in Rust while homeless. What now?

#35

Post by ipaddr »

jamieoglindsey wrote: post #32
ipaddr wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Try this... Go beg with your dog until you make enough for a case of water and supplies (marker / board). You sell your water for a dollar until you have made enough for a cooler, ice and more water. You keep selling water daily and move locations until you are making $100 a day. You take the money get an apartment and keep saving. You take your savings and go to every rust conference / local meetup you can afford to…

I'm not going to beg on the streets tbh. I'm not willing to stoop down to begging on the streets. I'm not looking to sell water. I have to be honest, i don't think you understand how real life works. Your suggestion is to to sell water to make a few pennies and that will get me £2000 for a place to live and allow me to travel the world attending rust conventions. I'm looking for help, not silly ideas that you saw in…

How are you eating and getting internet access if you are not begging now?

Re: Built a 1.3M-line agent-native OS in Rust while homeless. What now?

#36

Post by ipaddr »

jamieoglindsey wrote: post #16
brettgriffin wrote: post #11

> That’s what dies if I can’t keep going. Your priorities are completely wrong. You need to redirect the time and energy you're spending on this project towards getting back to stable ground, starting with utilizing the safety nets that your government and community make available to you. You need to find psychiatric care and shelter immediately, and eventually, gainful employment of any kind.

Are you sure you read the post. There are no available services. But even if there were, I don't need psychiatric care. I'm perfectly capable of living normally when I do.tnhve the weight of the world on my shoulders. As the post makes very clear, I have tried to get assistance for years. The UK is a shambles for helping people ony situation. Because I'm classed as high functioning, I get treated like I'm just wierd.…

"I don't need a dead end job or a good job eventually"

What do you actually need?

Re: Built a 1.3M-line agent-native OS in Rust while homeless. What now?

#37

Post by rl3 »

jamieoglindsey wrote: post #23
tacostakohashi wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are services available. People will help. The help and services may not be what you wish they were. You may elect not to use them for that reason, and that's fine. Everyone just wants do to what they're very good at. Sometimes, it turns out nobody wants to pay you for that though, so they make the decision to do something else instead that pays better, so they can live somewhere nice, and eat.

Not sure you're reading the post. The services that are supposed to be available are not helping me. Anyone who actually understands what OctantOS is and what it's true capabilities are would be insane to not want to be involved in bringing it to market. Maybe most people are happy to settle with a dead end job being depressed for life just to eat. No thanks. I'd rather focus on making something of myself - even if t…

>>Anyone who actually understands what OctantOS is

Hi.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47411267

Not sure if you saw that since you replied to other comments after. It's easy to miss all the way at the bottom.

There's a few questions at the end, curious how you're holding up. Hopefully you're still able to charge your devices.

Re: Built a 1.3M-line agent-native OS in Rust while homeless. What now?

#38

Post by jamieoglindsey »

rl3 wrote: post #27

Hey, how are you holding up? Your GoFundMe is still at $0. Putting myself in your shoes, to say that's probably demoralizing is an understatement. I noticed that donating requires a real surname that matches the card info provided, which is then available to the organizer. That might be giving people here cold feet since you're a new account; the anonymous donation option just removes the name from public visibility.…

Hey, I just wanted to stop in briefly to say I will respond to you, I want to respond properly but things have just been tight as expected.

I will come later today and get back to you.

I will say I appreciate you though.

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