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Yup. Terry Davis and his TempleOS are quite well known. I believe he suffers from schizophrenia although I do not know if this has been confirmed by anyone? He

by bithush 12y ago

Yup. Terry Davis and his TempleOS are quite well known. I believe he suffers from schizophrenia although I do not know if this has been confirmed by anyone? He is certainly a gifted programmer.

comrh 12y ago
His entire twitter is devoted to exposing the CIA's "conspiracies". https://twitter.com/TempleOS https://twitter.com/TempleOS
- k__ 12y ago
  Is he this for sure? Sounds like a fundamentalist and racist to me :\
  - mjn 12y ago
    I believe it is. His old one had more technical content: https://twitter.com/losethos https://twitter.com/losethos
  - DanBC 12y ago
    If you have "showdead" set to "on" you can read his comments and they show some of the same racism and religiosity.
  - icelancer 12y ago
    I mean the guy is mentally ill. Is he really a "racist" if he's not in complete control of his faculties?
    - Touche 12y ago
      I would say yes. The question is are the rest of us also racist but are just able to conceal it.
      - tedks 12y ago
        You don't seem to have a lot of empathy, or understanding of delusional disorders. A delusion is a non-real thought that you perceive as true. Things like "I am Napoleon" or "The people on the roof across the street are talking about me" or "The CIA is watching me" are examples of delusions. Schizophrenia is a profound delusional disorder where your entire mind is completely disorganized. Telling reality from the delusions are impossible because they are coming from the same brain hardware. I very much doubt that someone intelligent enough to write a complete OS from scratch would be terribly abnormal as a person. Unfortunately Terry is sick, and unless he gets better, whole chunks of his mind are going to be simply wrong. Maybe you're just projecting.
        Cthulhu_ 12y ago
        > or "The CIA is watching me" are examples of delusions. Yes it is, it's the NSA actually ;).
        Cthulhu_ 12y ago
        > or "The CIA is watching me" are examples of delusions. Yes it is, it's the NSA actually ;).
        Touche 12y ago
        How do you separate his own real thoughts from the delusions? How do you know which are which?
        tedks 12y ago
        There's no way to tell; that said, someone with a strong delusional disorder will probably have very few thoughts unaffected by the disorder, and if you're adequately empathetic, you can be charitable and give your fellow humans the benefit of the doubt.
        Touche 12y ago
        Agree on that!
  - notok22 12y ago
    If you read through his "rants" section of his website, you will see he's not a racist, he doesn't call black people "niggers", just people he doesn't like.
    - AudioGeek 12y ago
      Yes, he does use that term for blacks.. https://twitter.com/TempleOS/status/337551685285195777 https://twitter.com/TempleOS/status/337551685285195777
- Mikeb85 12y ago
  Here's a gem >@ID_AA_Carmack Lots of people think 640x480 16 color is real mode. TempleOS is long mode. God said 640x480 was a covenant like circumcision. I do wonder though, some of the stuff he says not only has high comedic value, but is incredibly stereotypical of both angry disenfranchised nerds and right wing nuts, and has me wondering if it's just an epic troll job...
dkulchenko 12y ago
Here's some more background: http://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1buh8c/the_creator_of_templeos_appears_in_an/ http://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1buh8c/the_c... And more still: http://terry.davis.usesthis.com/ http://terry.davis.usesthis.com/
- mjn 12y ago
  Another article (annoyingly undated, but I believe ~3 years old): http://9ol.es/LoseThos.html http://9ol.es/LoseThos.html
- bithush 12y ago
  Yeah I saw his interview on usesthis.com back in June. I really love that site!
lobster_johnson 12y ago
He has some kind of autocomplete window here: http://i.imgur.com/DqeJKNN.png http://i.imgur.com/DqeJKNN.png. The contents has some partial tokenizations that seem pretty characteristic: 'Sblood 'Sdeath 'Snails 'Swounds
- duskwuff 12y ago
  'Sblood and 'Swounds sounds more like Shakespeare. They are archaic curses (corruptions of "God's blood" and "God's wounds" respectively); they certainly wouldn't appear in the Bible.
  - arenaninja 12y ago
    I can attest to swounds being Shakespeare. It's used by Hamlet in one of his soliloquies
    - duskwuff 12y ago
      Linguistic bonus: the exclamation "Zounds!" is a corruption of "'swounds".
  - Crito 12y ago
    See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minced_oath http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minced_oath
thearn4 12y ago
I've been following his posts on reddit for awhile now. They're always.. interesting.
- k_roy 12y ago
  I have too. If you've never installed and peeked at TempleOS, it's worth it. In my opinion, it's an amazing balance of a whole lot of genius speckled with madness.

by bithush 12y ago

Yup. Terry Davis and his TempleOS are quite well known. I believe he suffers from schizophrenia although I do not know if this has been confirmed by anyone? He is certainly a gifted programmer.

comrh 12y ago

His entire twitter is devoted to exposing the CIA's "conspiracies". https://twitter.com/TempleOS https://twitter.com/TempleOS

k__ 12y ago
Is he this for sure? Sounds like a fundamentalist and racist to me :\
- mjn 12y ago
  I believe it is. His old one had more technical content: https://twitter.com/losethos https://twitter.com/losethos
- DanBC 12y ago
  If you have "showdead" set to "on" you can read his comments and they show some of the same racism and religiosity.
- icelancer 12y ago
  I mean the guy is mentally ill. Is he really a "racist" if he's not in complete control of his faculties?
  - Touche 12y ago
    I would say yes. The question is are the rest of us also racist but are just able to conceal it.
    - tedks 12y ago
      You don't seem to have a lot of empathy, or understanding of delusional disorders. A delusion is a non-real thought that you perceive as true. Things like "I am Napoleon" or "The people on the roof across the street are talking about me" or "The CIA is watching me" are examples of delusions. Schizophrenia is a profound delusional disorder where your entire mind is completely disorganized. Telling reality from the delusions are impossible because they are coming from the same brain hardware. I very much doubt that someone intelligent enough to write a complete OS from scratch would be terribly abnormal as a person. Unfortunately Terry is sick, and unless he gets better, whole chunks of his mind are going to be simply wrong. Maybe you're just projecting.
      - Cthulhu_ 12y ago
        > or "The CIA is watching me" are examples of delusions. Yes it is, it's the NSA actually ;).
      - Cthulhu_ 12y ago
        > or "The CIA is watching me" are examples of delusions. Yes it is, it's the NSA actually ;).
      - Touche 12y ago
        How do you separate his own real thoughts from the delusions? How do you know which are which?
        tedks 12y ago
        There's no way to tell; that said, someone with a strong delusional disorder will probably have very few thoughts unaffected by the disorder, and if you're adequately empathetic, you can be charitable and give your fellow humans the benefit of the doubt.
        Touche 12y ago
        Agree on that!
- notok22 12y ago
  If you read through his "rants" section of his website, you will see he's not a racist, he doesn't call black people "niggers", just people he doesn't like.
  - AudioGeek 12y ago
    Yes, he does use that term for blacks.. https://twitter.com/TempleOS/status/337551685285195777 https://twitter.com/TempleOS/status/337551685285195777
Mikeb85 12y ago
Here's a gem >@ID_AA_Carmack Lots of people think 640x480 16 color is real mode. TempleOS is long mode. God said 640x480 was a covenant like circumcision. I do wonder though, some of the stuff he says not only has high comedic value, but is incredibly stereotypical of both angry disenfranchised nerds and right wing nuts, and has me wondering if it's just an epic troll job...

dkulchenko 12y ago

Here's some more background: http://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1buh8c/the_creator_of_templeos_appears_in_an/ http://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1buh8c/the_c... And more still: http://terry.davis.usesthis.com/ http://terry.davis.usesthis.com/

mjn 12y ago
Another article (annoyingly undated, but I believe ~3 years old): http://9ol.es/LoseThos.html http://9ol.es/LoseThos.html
bithush 12y ago
Yeah I saw his interview on usesthis.com back in June. I really love that site!

lobster_johnson 12y ago

He has some kind of autocomplete window here: http://i.imgur.com/DqeJKNN.png http://i.imgur.com/DqeJKNN.png. The contents has some partial tokenizations that seem pretty characteristic: 'Sblood 'Sdeath 'Snails 'Swounds

duskwuff 12y ago
'Sblood and 'Swounds sounds more like Shakespeare. They are archaic curses (corruptions of "God's blood" and "God's wounds" respectively); they certainly wouldn't appear in the Bible.
- arenaninja 12y ago
  I can attest to swounds being Shakespeare. It's used by Hamlet in one of his soliloquies
  - duskwuff 12y ago
    Linguistic bonus: the exclamation "Zounds!" is a corruption of "'swounds".
- Crito 12y ago
  See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minced_oath http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minced_oath

thearn4 12y ago

I've been following his posts on reddit for awhile now. They're always.. interesting.

k_roy 12y ago
I have too. If you've never installed and peeked at TempleOS, it's worth it. In my opinion, it's an amazing balance of a whole lot of genius speckled with madness.