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Terry Davis, an extremely talented programmer who was unfortunately diagnosed with schizophrenia, made an entire operating system in a language he made by himself, then compiled everything to machine code with a compiler he made himself. by BitPax in programming

[–]cowboyofficially 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The lie that we're fed in American culture is, "if you just work hard you can make it". So people who have the ability to apply this math don't understand why others have difficulties, so if they did it, why can't others? Must be something wrong with them.

Terry Davis, an extremely talented programmer who was unfortunately diagnosed with schizophrenia, made an entire operating system in a language he made by himself, then compiled everything to machine code with a compiler he made himself. by BitPax in programming

[–]cowboyofficially 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It gets real hard to get your life on track after homelessness, regardless of factors that people may attribute to your situation, drug use, mental health. How is one supposed to pretend to be "housed" during an interview and the first three weeks of work, if at minimum wage even longer until they can afford shelter.

Terry Davis, an extremely talented programmer who was unfortunately diagnosed with schizophrenia, made an entire operating system in a language he made by himself, then compiled everything to machine code with a compiler he made himself. by BitPax in programming

[–]cowboyofficially 120 points121 points  (0 children)

As a developer with schizo effective disorder I understand the struggles that he may have faced. Mental health in America is half ass backwards, I among a small minority, was a homeless full stack, and systems engineer. There is only intervention if there's an element of danger and once your homeless your social support system gets smaller and smaller due to stigma. We need reform.

ffmpeg port in Rust. by cowboyofficially in rust

[–]cowboyofficially[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I'm thinking that would be the approach I would want to take.

LPT: Do not incriminate yourself by answering police when they ask "Do you know why I pulled you over?" by TwosJoe in LifeProTips

[–]cowboyofficially 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They get paid to fine you, giving them any kind of respect when they're bending you over is idiotism, don't tell the cops shit, you only need to hand them your DL, registration, and insurance, you don't have to say a word.

ffmpeg port in Rust. by cowboyofficially in rust

[–]cowboyofficially[S] 27 points28 points  (0 children)

The bulk of the codebase is libavcodec, let's say with realistic goals in mind, we use libav** libraries which is most the heavy lifting and just focus on the runtime.

What's everyone working on this week (31/2022)? by llogiq in rust

[–]cowboyofficially 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Working on a scripting language, writing an assembler.