Now that I've actually RTFA, as other people are saying he's a schizophrenic. Pretty cool operating system though, except for this:
TempleOS does not use memory protection. All code in the system runs at ring 0, the highest privilege level, meaning that a stray pointer write could easily crash the entire system.
He argues that Linux is designed for a use case that most people don’t have. Linux, he says, aims to be a 1970s mainframe, with 100 users connected at once. If a crash in one users’ programs could take down all the others, then obviously that would be bad. But for a personal computer, with just one user, this makes no sense. Instead the OS should empower the single user and not get in their way.
This only makes sense if you're running one program at a time. But if you're running 20 or more programs at once, like a regular user, then a bug in any one of them can cause weird behavior in the others, and it's almost impossible to debug or fix.
It seems like there's some kind of mental illness there. Check out his twitter feed: templeos
I must say, that was an unusually well-written article. Good information level, not dumbed down, and the writer actually sounded like she knew what she was talking about.
I'm shocked.
I expect most of the "Experts" are people who have been doing it long enough to think they know everything but not long enough to realize that they don't know everything.
I'm surprised that people are putting such a high bar for being an 'expert'. Personally, I consider someone who can program in any language at an expert level to be, well, an expert programmer. I don't feel it means you must know virtually everything there is to know about programming in all languages.
In my teens, I came up with the definition I privately use: An expert programmer is someone who can read and write very complicated pieces of code. A master programmer is someone who can solve the same problems using simple code that almost anyone can understand.
Reminds me of a South Park episode, 'Taming Strange', where they computerize the entire school:
But putting a giant toaster in your basement to then circulate the heat around? I'm pretty much certain the laws of thermodynamics would say that's a terrible way of doing it.
No less efficient than any other central heating system.
For central heating, the existing solutions would work far better than inefficient electrical appliances generating hear.
There is no such thing as an inefficient electrical heater, unless you're venting the heat outside or something. Because all the waste energy is given off as.. more heat. Plus the heat given off by these appliances is free, since the server company is paying for it.
Free heat
It's hard to beat
Even with forced air
It works a treat
We need coal to be GONE.
We're working on it as fast as we can.
If A = B and B = C, then A = C, except where void or prohibited by law. -- Roy Santoro