Inactive Terry A. Davis / Terrence Andrew Davis - Creator of TempleOS (formerly LoseThos/sparrowOS)

AmpleApricots said:
I liked how somebody could get him into a technical conversation and he could snap out of the deepest world salad mode to show off his knowledge and actually make sense and hold a proper technical conversation, like that part of his brain wasn't directly affected or something. Schizophrenia is fucked up.
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If schizophrenia is anything like Alzheimer's then that makes perfect sense. Alzheimer's affects your latest memories before making its way toward your oldest memories, so if schizophrenia works the same way, it probably affects the frontal lobes first before impacting anything else.
 
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God nerfed Terry so fucking hard with schizophrenia man. At worst, he could've been upper management for some IT department in Arizona making 200k a year. At best? He could've innovated beyond the scope of what people like Steve Wozniak, Bill Gates, and Linus Torvalds accomplished in their prime. I guess we'll never see his picture hanging at the top of a Micro Center now.

So many terminally exceptional people exist in IT, but Terry was one of the few who was able to overcome his limitations to some measure and tried to actually innovate. Maybe TempleOS could've accomplished what other projects like MenuetOS wanted to, but couldn't due to obscurity. Either way, we'll never know and that's the worst part of this whole ordeal.

Rest in peace, Terry. After almost 50 years of hell, you definitely deserve your peace.
 
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Many years ago, a younger, much more stupid me was one of the people that laughed at some seemingly arrogant prick with a shitty OS who spammed tech forums. Then I got more into him, and realized how troubled and actually brilliant he is was.

Never met the guy, and never engaged him, but I do miss him. In the same way one misses their favorite author once they pass away. I truly miss reading about him. He was entertaining and in many many ways truly profound.

His case is just exposing how blatantly horrible the USA's health care situation is. More so when it comes to mental health. In most western European countries he would have had much better help, had he wanted it -- and at some point he did. It's tragic.

But on the brighter side: he isn't troubled anymore, made a lasting impression on millions of people (Knudsen's video), and can now spit on the heads of those who tricked him when his mind was hazy.

We still love and miss you, Terry.

Edit: Has Terry always followed AnusWarhol on Twitter? Because if not, then chances are he is the one who guessed Terry's password.
 
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AmpleApricots said:
I liked how somebody could get him into a technical conversation and he could snap out of the deepest world salad mode to show off his knowledge and actually make sense and hold a proper technical conversation, like that part of his brain wasn't directly affected or something. Schizophrenia is fucked up.
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Certain skills and "muscle memory" reside in a different part of the brain than general memories. There a number of instances of people who have severe memory loss to the point that they cannot recall people they once knew, yet are still proficient in complex learned skills, such as playing piano. Perhaps programming fell into that portion for Terry. Maybe it's structure even gave him a bit of lucidity when he was working.
 
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I know I'm late on saying this but Terry A. Davis was a computer genius who was undone by one very deep fatal flaw and his story is tragic.

Terry is the only lolcow on this site whose story could work as a movie and actually be watchable if it was handled properly.
 
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Syaoran Li said:
Terry is the only lolcow on this site whose story could work as a movie and actually be watchable if it was handled properly.
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Have it normally filmed like any other movie. But once it gets to him becoming a "streamer/YouTuber", have it shot with cellphone/laptop cams., etc, having the audience see it as if they were watching a video of his.

Have it end with a long scene of him walking next to those tracks in complete silence, with only soft ambient sounds audible. He is seemingly lucid; no muttering, no ticks. You hear train sounds that are slowly getting louder. Cut to a camera filming from behind, train sounds get louder. He turns around into the train tracks. Cut to black. Give it 5 seconds of nothing.

"Terrence Andrew Davis
December 15, 1969 – August 11, 2018"

Roll credits while playing songs he used to love, while a small window in a corner plays his vlog videos, so people can see the real Terry.

After credits scene: Terry's real bird watching the monitor talk. Followed by a black screen with one of his more famous hymns playing for a few notes. End movie.

Call it "God's lonely programmer"
 
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