And here I was just thinking about how it is entirely possible to be at once brilliant and nuts.
Some highlights for me:
- Itās got a language like C, C++ but got improvementsā¦ called Holy
C. [rimshot] - Itās 640x480, thatās what God said. VGA.
This guy has nailed that sweet spot where he comes off as completely serious, but every once in a while you catch a phrase that hints itās all an enormous prank. So youāre never quite sure whatās going on.
nope, heās completely serious and schizophrenic.
for example, http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Accts/TS/Wb2/Rants/TAD/TADRants.html
personally, i think it would be awesome if someone forked his OS to include the stuff āgodā told him not to, like graphics above 640x480, and sound beyond the PC speaker. but i wonāt be doing it.
Does it play any of Ulillilliaās games, or just Israel Trail?
Well thatās cool, and all but I don;t see how ābrilliantā relates? ;}
Yep. And this OS comes up sometimes on Reddit, and thereās usually a fairly vocal contingent that points out that hey, guys, heās schizophrenic, heās serious, itās sad, weāre making fun of someone with a mental condition, thatās not cool.
And when Reddit tells you to stop making fun of someone, you know itās serious.
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Or perhaps itās possible that Rob didnāt actually mean to mock the mentally ill but, like many people here, didnāt realize this was not a work of parody. Because Poeās Law.
I thought it might be a good idea for me to throw that out there, before too many other people unknowingly make asses of themselves.
And sometimes it helps to slap 'em with a healthy dose of āyouāre being a bag of dicksā to get their attention.
They are ill.
They can be coherent
http://www.osnews.com/thread?558408
but other times
http://www.osnews.com/comments/27138
I think they were banned for all those comments.
My guess is that they are trying to manage the side effects of their meds by only taking them intermittently. I have had a bad enough time taking SSRIs, Iād hate to have to take powerful anti-psychotics.
Brilliant totally applies in this case. I assume you have not tried writing your own operating system from scratch? Not only did he write his own OS, he wrote his own compiler. This is all non-trivial, and the amount of stuff that he has gotten working is amazing (particularly for what looks like a solo effort). Everything about his UI and content may be largely nonsensical to anyone outside of his head, but this edifice requires a deep understanding of so many different aspects of programming.
It doesnāt take long at all to find some really ugly racism on this guyās ārantsā page. Iām thinking it might be a good idea not to give this son of a bitch any more attention, mentally ill or not.
Um, sorry it is trivial, in thatās part of any competent undergraduate CS curriculum. So, Iāll grant you heās not an idiot. But, not buying the brilliant.
Hm. driving trollies, I assume? No competent, honest person in history has ever referred to building a functional OS from scratch as ātrivial,ā and it is certainly not a part of any CS curriculum (undergraduate or otherwise) Iāve ever heard ofāthere may be one or two, but itās by no means standard.
So, yes, brilliant and nuts. Or if you want to convince me otherwise, letās see LexicatOS, hm?
No, not trolling, just expressing an opinion. Sorry if you find my opinion disagreeable.
I suppose it depends on what one means by OS. Toy OSes get built all the time. āFull featuredā OSes are built rather less often: it was not at all clear to me that TempleOS fit into the latter category, and, from the video, it looked more like the former.
I dont particularly care about convincing you of that nutjobās brilliance. Perhaps you would care to convince me that, I donāt know, ermā¦ goats prefer chocolate to, uhā¦ pantyhose? As long as we are on the topic of things I could care less aboutā¦
And sorry, not trained in CS, although I have heard more than enough CS undergrads, and post-grads talking about their FS, OS and compiler writing projects to feel quite comfortable with my assertion.
Ok, so you freely admit you donāt know what heās talking about. I do this stuff professionally, and have built my own toy OSes and compilers. So yes, I have some idea what heās put together just at a glance. I donāt expect you to care about that, or for it to change your opinion. I just wanted to note it for the viewers following along at home.
And since it sounds like youāve been bored to tears by CS majors droning on about their homework, I donāt really care to convince you of anything. So, feel free to reply and have the last word!
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Yeah, you do. Otherwise you wouldnāt have made three posts about it already.
Sometime back, the programmer appeared on Metafilter to participate in a thread on LoseThos. He actually didnāt get banned, and the thread might be interesting to read:
http://www.metafilter.com/119424/An-Operating-System-for-Songs-from-God
Itās all running in ring 0 with real = virtual, so heād lose marks for that. But then heās only allowing himself 144,000 lines of source code to match the number of souls who will enter heaven on the day of judgement. Considered on its own terms itās a triumph and fairly wonderful
