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You're way off base here - consider turning on showdead and reading some of his posts, or even just googling the guy, before making wild assumptions. Nobody is

You're way off base here - consider turning on showdead and reading some of his posts, or even just googling the guy, before making wild assumptions. Nobody is snarking on losethos and designating him mentally ill because he wrote an OS. losethos is genuinely mentally ill.

asveikau 13y ago
I did google him. The impression I get from HN comments: 1. I see posts making fun of this guy's mental illness. 2. I see posts making fun of how he's working on an OS. I don't think either one is particularly cool.
- nknighthb 13y ago
  Did you turn on showdead and read his comments as you were advised to, or did you just decide to remain willfully ignorant while drawing absurd conclusions?
  - asveikau 13y ago
    Can you please re-read what you're replying to? I do not feel that it went through. I presume from your response that you are OK with: 1. Making fun of mental illness. (I hope that mental illness doesn't have to afflict your family before you realize what's wrong with that.) 2. Making fun of working on an OS. (Still uncool.) To answer your question, yes, I read his comments.
    - nknighthb 13y ago
      I presume from your response that you're an arrogant, presumptuous asshole who can't conceive of the possibility that someone disagrees with your characterizations.
      - asveikau 13y ago
        Ouch. I'll keep that in mind for next time I attempt a kind word for people with mental illness, that nknighthb has a problem with that.
        nknighthb 13y ago
        Your very first post in this thread was a deliberate insult to the entire community dressed up as a request for "explanation". On behalf of people with mental and neurological issues of all stripes, please shut up. We don't need your "kind words". Just the opposite. We need people who think they're "defending" us by being holier-than-thou assholes to stop talking.
        asveikau 13y ago
        > Your very first post in this thread was a deliberate insult to the entire community dressed up as a request for "explanation". IMHO nobody's really made a convincing case that at least some small part of this community hasn't ostracized this guy for either his mental illness or for his interest in operating systems. Having looked at comments surrounding this guy I still see people doing both. I've gotten some nice replies from people who aren't trying to judge him but I still do see other users doing both. I wanted to speak my conscience about that.
        nknighthb 13y ago
        > small part of this community Reflect on that for a while, then compare it to the first comment you made.
      - dkersten 13y ago
        From reading this thread I see the original post was clearly off the mark but everything else that asveikau wrote after that seems more than reasonable to me (and not inaccurate either: I have seen plenty of people on HN make fun of losethos for both being mentally ill and writing an OS - both of which I feel are very wrong). On the other hand, you are the one that comes across as a compete asshole here.
- nullymcnull 13y ago
  I feel like you're reading a different HN than I am. Can you link some concrete examples of someone 'making fun' of either losethos's mental illness, or his OS? have you turned on showdead and seen some of his recent comments here on HN yet? seriously, you seem more interested in getting up on a soapbox and making wild generalizations about how the community 'makes fun of mental illness' - something I can't say I've seen much evidence of, quite the contrary in fact - than in actually familiarizing yourself with the guy in question.
  - asveikau 13y ago
    I may have been tainted by the first thread I saw here making reference to this guy. Someone basically directly, flat out said you'd have to be crazy to write your own compiler and OS. I am searching on Google and using HN search and I can't find that thread. It was a few months back. But in my searches I did find people making fun of the guy very directly, albeit a long time ago and in some cases downvoted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4466947 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4466947 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4467278 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4467278 And the more recent discussions, even in this thread... I do feel they have a bit of a subtext.
- vor_ 13y ago
  Who is making fun of his mental illness?
- vor_ 13y ago
  Could you link to one of the posts making fun of his mental illness or making fun of how he's working on an OS?
- undergroundhero 13y ago
  Here is the website for his OS: http://www.templeos.org/ http://www.templeos.org/ (redirected from losethos.com) It's common knowledge that losethos is a schizophrenic.

asveikau 13y ago

I did google him. The impression I get from HN comments: 1. I see posts making fun of this guy's mental illness. 2. I see posts making fun of how he's working on an OS. I don't think either one is particularly cool.

nknighthb 13y ago
Did you turn on showdead and read his comments as you were advised to, or did you just decide to remain willfully ignorant while drawing absurd conclusions?
- asveikau 13y ago
  Can you please re-read what you're replying to? I do not feel that it went through. I presume from your response that you are OK with: 1. Making fun of mental illness. (I hope that mental illness doesn't have to afflict your family before you realize what's wrong with that.) 2. Making fun of working on an OS. (Still uncool.) To answer your question, yes, I read his comments.
  - nknighthb 13y ago
    I presume from your response that you're an arrogant, presumptuous asshole who can't conceive of the possibility that someone disagrees with your characterizations.
    - asveikau 13y ago
      Ouch. I'll keep that in mind for next time I attempt a kind word for people with mental illness, that nknighthb has a problem with that.
      - nknighthb 13y ago
        Your very first post in this thread was a deliberate insult to the entire community dressed up as a request for "explanation". On behalf of people with mental and neurological issues of all stripes, please shut up. We don't need your "kind words". Just the opposite. We need people who think they're "defending" us by being holier-than-thou assholes to stop talking.
        asveikau 13y ago
        > Your very first post in this thread was a deliberate insult to the entire community dressed up as a request for "explanation". IMHO nobody's really made a convincing case that at least some small part of this community hasn't ostracized this guy for either his mental illness or for his interest in operating systems. Having looked at comments surrounding this guy I still see people doing both. I've gotten some nice replies from people who aren't trying to judge him but I still do see other users doing both. I wanted to speak my conscience about that.
        nknighthb 13y ago
        > small part of this community Reflect on that for a while, then compare it to the first comment you made.
    - dkersten 13y ago
      From reading this thread I see the original post was clearly off the mark but everything else that asveikau wrote after that seems more than reasonable to me (and not inaccurate either: I have seen plenty of people on HN make fun of losethos for both being mentally ill and writing an OS - both of which I feel are very wrong). On the other hand, you are the one that comes across as a compete asshole here.
nullymcnull 13y ago
I feel like you're reading a different HN than I am. Can you link some concrete examples of someone 'making fun' of either losethos's mental illness, or his OS? have you turned on showdead and seen some of his recent comments here on HN yet? seriously, you seem more interested in getting up on a soapbox and making wild generalizations about how the community 'makes fun of mental illness' - something I can't say I've seen much evidence of, quite the contrary in fact - than in actually familiarizing yourself with the guy in question.
- asveikau 13y ago
  I may have been tainted by the first thread I saw here making reference to this guy. Someone basically directly, flat out said you'd have to be crazy to write your own compiler and OS. I am searching on Google and using HN search and I can't find that thread. It was a few months back. But in my searches I did find people making fun of the guy very directly, albeit a long time ago and in some cases downvoted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4466947 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4466947 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4467278 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4467278 And the more recent discussions, even in this thread... I do feel they have a bit of a subtext.
vor_ 13y ago
Who is making fun of his mental illness?
vor_ 13y ago
Could you link to one of the posts making fun of his mental illness or making fun of how he's working on an OS?
undergroundhero 13y ago
Here is the website for his OS: http://www.templeos.org/ http://www.templeos.org/ (redirected from losethos.com) It's common knowledge that losethos is a schizophrenic.