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Re: Terry Davis Uses This

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Post by axaxs »

oofabz wrote: post #17

I 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 sellou…

No kidding. When one looks at everything he's wrote from scratch thus far, it is more than very impressive. If not for the skills, at least for the dedication. I get bored with projects 1/10th of the size.

Re: Terry Davis Uses This

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Post by andyjohnson0 »

chubot wrote: post #16

Doesn'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 :/

The host "OS underneath" isn't visible to the VMware guest OS unless it uses special interfaces - which I'm fairly sure TempleOS doesn't. So TempleOS still has to do the hard work of dealing with the "hardware" that VMware is emulating.

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Post by sp332 »

chrismonsanto wrote: post #23
chubot wrote: post #16

Doesn'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 :/

It's very difficult to write an OS that runs on the bare metal of an arbitrary computer. One advantage of virtualization is that hardware differences are normalized, and you only have to write a few drivers. If I was to write an OS for fun I would probably target something with fixed hardware like the RPi.

You could run it in an ESX bare-metal hypervisor, giving you most of the benefits of virtualization without a whole OS running "underneath".

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Post by sp332 »

phpnode wrote: post #4
curiousDog wrote: post #3

As much as I feel sorry for this guy, can't look past his racist rants :(

please do, they are certainly caused by his schizophrenia. In much the same way a Tourettes sufferer cannot control their compulsion to say inappropriate things.

But you can edit your post before or even a while after sending it.

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Post by SDGT »

I'm going to assume Terry either found some moments of calm or changed up his meds.

Either way, nice so see him in the public eye without all the vitriol.

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Post by pekk »

curiousDog wrote: post #3

As much as I feel sorry for this guy, can't look past his racist rants :(

If you pay attention, his use of the word "nigger" is not directed at black people. The word may offend people but his way of relating to the world is different, you aren't understanding much if you assume he means things the same as you do.

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Post by Intermernet »

1945 wrote: post #5

Terry Davis has a mental illness, this isn't the proper forum to call attention to it.

One of my best friends has a mental illness. Society should get over it, and learn to deal with it.

I've never met or spoken to Terry Davis, but I think he's amazing (and I'm an atheist). His code is incredibly inventive, and I don't know of many people who have achieved what he has single-handedly.

Yes, Terry Davis has a mental illness.

Yes, Terry Davis is very likely a true genius.

These can both be true.

Terry, if you're reading this, my best wishes.

Re: Terry Davis Uses This

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Post by kordless »

Kiro wrote: post #26

Since TempleOSV207 is shadowbanned here's his response in this thread: > 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 awfu…

> You poor people don't know God.

This is a blaming statement and is misleading in and of itself. How can you possibly know what I know or what I don't know?

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