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by guardian5x 3274 days ago
Maybe TerryADavis, he gets a lot of praise and admiration on HN for creating TempleOS, but his comments are often downvoted, and with good reason.
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An interesting and fun introduction to Terry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcqWok8AubE
Bloody hell, he's definitely fallen out of the tree, hard. I just looked at his site http://www.templeos.org - he sure does like to use the N-word.
Beeing shizoid, the ultimate minority, feels less outside of society, if you have someone to look down upon. If it was a normal person, i would call it racism- this way, i would call it desperat socializing, with a willingness to consier even racists as company.
omg: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=TerryADavis

He says things and expresses himself in a way, which is in strong violation with social norms and hacker news guidelines. How could that be?

Wow his posts read like a markov bot using racist screeds and religious texts as corpii.

Poe's law and all but sure reminds me of being manic and my word salad speeches. Hope the guy is OK.

What's exciting about TempleOS?
It's a one-man-developed operating system written in a one-man-developed programming language, both of which are self-hosting.

The fact that something like that can be achieved by a schizophrenic man who uses the "n-word" in sentences like one uses butter on toast is truly inspirational. TempleOS is an excellent example of so-called "outsider art", but is also a significant technical feat on its own.