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When I googled I found more details here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Drama/comments/7218gh/templeos_crea... > Despite the mean spirited attention he gets, he does have a following of people who seem to genuinly feel for him, and want to do nice things for him. One thing his followers did which at least seemed well intentioned was buying him a drum set. Terry likes to use drum sticks, but didn't have a set, so a gofundm…
TempleOS has no process isolation, so it's completely unaffected by Spectre and Meltdown. I'm starting to think there's a lot of wisdom in its design. Complexity of modern computer systems keeps increasing but the value I get from that complexity isn't increasing nearly as fast. Spectre and Meltdown are just recent examples of some of the cost of that complexity. Do we really need an OS too complex for any one person…
That's like saying "I don't have any doors in my house, just open frames. So I'm not affected by the weaknesses in locks."
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He is a schizo autistic programmer who is convinced God told him to make an OS, so he is working on it constantly for 15 years, doing nothing else (it kind of resembles Noah's Ark). He used to livestream regularly on Youtube and became popular on technology boards on 4chan, 8chan etc., for his rants about God and "CIA niggers" and generally "being a living meme". Some people there genuinely like him and even bought h…
And he also posts on HN, but last time I checked his account is shadow-banned.
TempleOS has no process isolation, so it's completely unaffected by Spectre and Meltdown. I'm starting to think there's a lot of wisdom in its design. Complexity of modern computer systems keeps increasing but the value I get from that complexity isn't increasing nearly as fast. Spectre and Meltdown are just recent examples of some of the cost of that complexity. Do we really need an OS too complex for any one person…
That's like saying "I don't have any doors in my house, just open frames. So I'm not affected by the weaknesses in locks."
In fact it was a top advertised feature that you could get your hands on any piece of data and code running on the system at any time.
TempleOS has no process isolation, so it's completely unaffected by Spectre and Meltdown. I'm starting to think there's a lot of wisdom in its design. Complexity of modern computer systems keeps increasing but the value I get from that complexity isn't increasing nearly as fast. Spectre and Meltdown are just recent examples of some of the cost of that complexity. Do we really need an OS too complex for any one person…
It follows the same design ideas of Smalltalk, Lisp Machines, Mesa/Cedar, Lillith, Oberon, JavaOS, .... The idea being that the isolation can be achieved via the language type system, instead of extra hardware.
If only instead of pagefaults you would get thrown into debugger...
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> Do we really need an OS too complex for any one person to completely understand? I think the answer to this is yes. But at the same time, I think we're kind of messing up because children today don't have the same kind of systems a lot of us grew up with -- ones that boot instantly into programming consoles with easy ways to make sounds and draw graphics. Terry's vision to create a modern system like that is deeply…
The console of today's youth is in the browsers. Any kid can open the developer's console and start typing JavaScript, the results are displayed immediately on the screen. Considering that JavaScript has it's roots in Scheme, it is a good language for kids to experiment on. For learning lower level constructs maybe Webassembly will help the future generations. The interested kids can also purchase raspberry pi s and…
When I googled I found more details here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Drama/comments/7218gh/templeos_crea... > Despite the mean spirited attention he gets, he does have a following of people who seem to genuinly feel for him, and want to do nice things for him. One thing his followers did which at least seemed well intentioned was buying him a drum set. Terry likes to use drum sticks, but didn't have a set, so a gofundm…
It blows my mind that a mental ill person is ending up homeless like this. Society should take care of theses cases.
Depending on "truck" it can be pretty alright. See : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UeVsHmKAFA (EV mod of VW kombi) Make a kickstarter to fund his future green life. ps: for some weird reason I expected him to look like anderson cooper..
If you want to draw attention to a schizophrenic person who needs help, maybe linking /r/Drama is the wrong way.
Tomorrow, someone will object to linking a WSJ article as it's a conservative newspaper.
Then, somebody else will object against The Guardian for it being too left-leaning.