Terry Davis has a mental illness, this isn't the proper forum to call attention to it.
Sure it is. He gets respect and tolerance from the people who know his situation. He's been dealt a bad hand, but he's one of us!
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#12> I am aware of a 70 core Knights Landing Intel CPU coming-out. That might be nice. It seems that no matter who the programmer is, some constants remain: we like big numbers.
Preferably power of 2. Get rid of 6 of them ;)
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#13That reminded me of "LoseThos". It would have been an interesting coincidence if multiple people were asked by God to create a 64-bit OS, but it is the same guy; he renamed it into TempleOS.
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#14Terry Davis has a mental illness, this isn't the proper forum to call attention to it.
We can draw attention to interesting bits, like this page: http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Accts/TS/Wb2/TempleOS.html Reading the usesthis page, I was intrigued by the fact the author uses Windows. Actually he tweeted about switching to Linux a few days ago: https://twitter.com/TempleOS/status/461423615582298112 I find also interesting that someone writing an OS is prevented running it natively by Secure-Boot.
He said the problem was "legacy PS/2 keyboard/mouse emulation", that's why he can't run TempleOS natively. The Secure-Boot reference is more related to dual-booting I think.
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#15Terry Davis is awesome.
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#16Doesn't running TempleOS in VMWare completely ruin the aesthetic??? Pretty surprised by that part.
When I heard about LoseThos I thought it was really bad ass. Like people who build their own house from scratch and live in it. The idea was to strip it down and get close to the metal.
But if you're running it in VMWare, you basically have an entire OS underneath, a bunch of opaque code... doesn't fit IMO :/
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#17I have a lot of respect for Terry and it's nice to see him included alongside other developers. He's not the most likeable guy, but I doubt he's happy about that either.
He writes software to be beautiful. He can take pride in his work because his intentions are absolutely pure. When I program, I take shortcuts to ship as quickly as possible, and then I throw some ads on the final product to make money. I am a sellout, but Terry is not, and I envy him for that.
I especially like his HolyC language. It is simple, elegant, and comfortably familiar:
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#18Terry Davis has a mental illness, this isn't the proper forum to call attention to it.
Yet you draw further attention to it.
But frankly, consider that he is posting all over the place anyway, trying to hide his issues away accomplishes nothing. Drawing attention to the fact that his often extremely offensive comments are due to mental illness rather than malice is not a bad thing in that context.
He's accomplished a lot of things that most people never will, despite his illness. He's one of the reasons I have showdead on.
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#19Terry Davis has a mental illness, this isn't the proper forum to call attention to it.
We can draw attention to interesting bits, like this page: http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Accts/TS/Wb2/TempleOS.html Reading the usesthis page, I was intrigued by the fact the author uses Windows. Actually he tweeted about switching to Linux a few days ago: https://twitter.com/TempleOS/status/461423615582298112 I find also interesting that someone writing an OS is prevented running it natively by Secure-Boot.
He's reiterated that in a (dead) comment on this post:
> Yeah, I did. Now, I use Linux. Normally stuff like this launched me into an existential crisis. "Oh, God, the stress! Why God!? My world has a MAJOR thing to worry about -- misleading people maybe or something like that."
> I'm not quite as much a coward. I think I had good reason. Cowardess is not a virtue. God loved King David.
>Damn, I look awful. Oh well. I've become a freak hermit-- don't know how to smile, anymore.
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#20I am at the same time in awe at the technical accomplishment and cringing at the religious twist. I've never seen the two concerns merged quite so tightly.