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> Can someone explain why people on HN seem to conflate mental illness with writing an operating system? Nobody here does. It's just that this specific guy hap
by derleth 13y ago
> Can someone explain why people on HN seem to conflate mental illness with writing an operating system?
Nobody here does. It's just that this specific guy happens to have written a simple graphical OS from scratch apparently without anyone else's help.
He also believes God speaks to him through random noise and posts random text created from mixing up Bible verses as being what God just said. He is, really, classic schizophrenic. There's no other way to say it. He hears voices nobody else can hear and he believes it is God talking to him.
> Is this just the HN attitude of having just learned js/ruby yesterday and being afraid of low level details?
Now you're just embarrassing yourself.
- asveikau 13y ago> Now you're just embarrassing yourself. No actually, I am not embarrassed to point out that this problem exists on HN. Read any comment thread that deals with low-level anything. It's painful. Edit: Prerequisite: to feel just how painful it is, you must understand the topic being discussed.
- derleth 13y ago> to feel just how painful it is, you must understand the topic being discussed. Of course I do, which is why your comments are so laughable.
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- rjbwork 13y agoLoseThos is a self-admitted schizophrenic who frequently posts racist and religious rants that are extremely diverged from reality. This has nothing to do with low level details of anything, and much more to do with the fact that LoseThos is genuinely mentally ill, yet also wrote a strange, beautiful, functional system.
- Luyt 13y agoA video of TempleOS (formerly known as losethos): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0MsDl39UL0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0MsDl39UL0 That's really weird stuff.
- icambron 13y agoYou read some threads on HN about low-level details and they annoyed you, and so now you get to imply that I "just learned js/ruby yesterday and [am] afraid of low level details" because I used the words "OS" and "mentally ill" in the same sentence, context notwithstanding? Knowing what you know now and rereading my comment and your reply, can I expect better of you in the future? Perhaps a bit of due diligence and more charitable interpretations of other people's comments is in order...
- asveikau 13y agoMy original comment wasn't necessarily directed at you specifically, it was a sort of open question based on having seen threads here discussing mental illness and writing an OS. That said, it's not so much of a stretch to take a literal read of this: > I get that he's mentally ill (I read up on his OS the other day) ... and conclude that there may be a link between OS and mental illness in the author's mind. I did find it a puzzling juxtaposition.