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This guy is fascinating. Apparently he is building an operating system based on directives he received from God. Also there is a program called After Egypt which is a game he made based on the story of Moses. In this game you can go speak with God and Terry regards this program as an oracle of sorts. He speaks freely about God's thoughts and reactions to his efforts in his videos.

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EDIT: I started to write something snarky about this guy...I can't. He obviously has a mental illness. He is without a doubt one of the most hardcore C programmers I have ever seen.

I will say that the oracle part of his OS is a random text generator that he interprets as coded messages from god. At least that is what I read in an interview.

Yeah, it either spits out random text or random bible passages.

It's not C. It's a C-like language that he designed (and implemented) by himself. The embedded (rendered) resource references are my favorite part.

Yeah, that's super cool.

Can you explain what an embedded (rendered) resource reference is, or maybe point to some code in TempleOS that demonstrates it?

I think he is referring to the game demonstrated @ 11 minutes in the linked video that uses 3d models which appear to be embedded within the source code.

Sort of like how Scala allows XML as an object literal format, but less wacky.

Huh! I did not know that - could this be used for JSX rendering on the server side?

Like a Word document---mixed text, images, etc.

He seems to interpret "praising bubbles, popcorn, and sand castles" and other acts of goodwill as feeding entropy to God, who will in turn yield more meaningful responses through the RNG as a reward.

Very, very strange, interesting cosmology he has.

Indeed. I keep showdead on solely so that I can see his comments.

If anybody wonders, this seems to be his account:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=TerryADavis

I have been following his coding for quite a while and I think it is really impressive.

He has multiple accounts. I don't think that's his main.

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=losethos

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