A cult following for the God-given operating system. Huh. Sounds a bit sacrilegious.
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Mega Man for TempleOS
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#112Weird. Makes me want to start a crusade.
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You make it sound like he's braindead and has no own will. He posts racial slurs even in his most sane comments.
Your comments have all the empathy of someone who has zero understanding of schizophrenia.
Good job of convincing or educating me with that strong argument. How about you tell me how it works instead? Right now you're making it sound like a schizophrenic can do whatever they want, whenever they want because they are victims. Even if it's outside an episode.
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Writing an operating system is hard: http://jvns.ca/blog/2013/12/04/day-37-how-a-keyboard-works/
Yes, I remember reading that article and thinking how ridiculously complex an OS is. I can't imagine being confident enough to even contemplate starting to write one.
Impressive thing about Evans is she doesn't worry about it, just dives and learns.
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Your comments have all the empathy of someone who has zero understanding of schizophrenia.
Good job of convincing or educating me with that strong argument. How about you tell me how it works instead? Right now you're making it sound like a schizophrenic can do whatever they want, whenever they want because they are victims. Even if it's outside an episode.
I'm not someone who takes the mental illness excuse lightly, but I have from time to time had the privilege of catching Terry in a more lucid state and let me assure you the man you understand him to be is not who he is.
Would you accuse a person with tourette's syndrome of racism due to their outbursts? This disease is far more pervasive and systemic than that.
Vincent van Gogh was similarly mentally ill as a society we look past the things he could not control and instead focus on what he has created. I suggest the same course of action here as I believe the situations are uncannily similar. This is all I will say on the matter.
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
Good job of convincing or educating me with that strong argument. How about you tell me how it works instead? Right now you're making it sound like a schizophrenic can do whatever they want, whenever they want because they are victims. Even if it's outside an episode.
I'm not someone who takes the mental illness excuse lightly, but I have from time to time had the privilege of catching Terry in a more lucid state and let me assure you the man you understand him to be is not who he is. Would you accuse a person with tourette's syndrome of racism due to their outbursts? This disease is far more pervasive and systemic than that. Vincent van Gogh was similarly mentally ill as a societ…
Thank you. If that's the case and he's completely normal without any racism and hatred between his episodes I was wrong and I apologize.
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One should probably add a trigger warning. He is schizophrenic and not quite himself at times, especially in the comments. Not to take away from his technical feats.
At first i thought that was a bit of an exaggeration, but after listening to him talk in his "What God Wants in Music" video, that is actually a reasonable request to make. He very casually and without warning declares things that might easily make traumatized people relive things.
Well that was unexpected [1]. I can kinda see what he means, but I'm not sure I'd use the same simile.
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Terry A. Davis, creator of Temple OS. Here's his channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdX4uJUwSFwiY3XBvu-F_-Q/vid...
Clicked a recent video and he rants about random numbers, the lottery and the "whitest of the white scientists of the National Institute of Standards" with a few colorful "monkey niggers" thrown in. ..... uh Okay? Is that guy crazy? In the comments people say he has a 90 day youtube ban.
Yes he is. TempleOs is his literal third temple of god. He is a very skilled guy though. Own operating system, own programming language, own terminal, made first person shooter and flight simulator from scratch.
Just to show you what a skilled guy in different mindset can do.
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It's not. It's impressive Terry's platform has attained a following.
The subculture of OS makers is far smaller than the subculture of esoteric programming language enthusiasts. Its inevitable if templeos works the esolang people will descend upon it. There's probably a hundred, maybe a thousand Intercal programmers for every templeos enthusiast and they all love a new challenge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_programming_language Personally I've been thinking of doing make-a-…
Just checked, sed isn't on that list.
And lisp sounds a bit simpler than sedtris - tetris in sed (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2430171, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2430171) - so that could be an interesting challenge.... hmm...
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#120Is it just me or is the official templeos site hacked / defaced right now.
Nope, it's standard, Terry Davis is the author and he's a very religious schizophrenic. He's a very smart guy, but he got banned many times on HN and Reddit for going off about "India niggers" and spamming blocks of random words.