mircea_popescu: anyway, a large part of trying to make a manual is that fuck me, we barely even understand what we're doing.

mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag this is going towards "animated programs", where instead of looking at a program as a[n ultimately] bitmap you instead look at it as a gif, with layers coming on top of each other.

mircea_popescu: but ima put it first as an article so we don't end up needing a ton of small fixes signed

mircea_popescu: is that a good name for it ? kinda confusing as fuck

mircea_popescu: anyway, what i'm going to do here is : write a trilema article titled The V Manual Genesis or something, which will discuss but also contain a genesis for something called v-manual

mircea_popescu: "This devastating outcome for stakeholders indicates what can happen when much brainpower and energy are applied to a faulty premise."

mircea_popescu: tel lyou what, i'ma make it a v instead, fuck this stupid shit.

mircea_popescu: "The RFC Editor generally follows these accepted rules as defined by the Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS) [CMOS], with a few important exceptions to avoid ambiguity in complex technical prose and to handle mixtures of text and computer languages, or to preserve historical formatting rules." << kids, this is how not to code.

mircea_popescu: da fuck. am i going to call it a rfc ? if not, why not, if yes am i going to follow the "guidelines" ? which ? the most recent ? who the fuck is "Internet Architecture Board (IAB)" that i should care, nevber heard of 'em. the original ? seriously, postel ?

mircea_popescu: consider this scenario : bitcoin in 2020. mod6 has meanwhile gone hunting seals on the artic circle. you live in a remote mining colony up on the fucking moon.

mircea_popescu: don't laugh, it's a necessary consequence.

mircea_popescu: you can't get those people in a room together to sign a new genesis.

mircea_popescu: and your guess depends on how people software as a much lower node on that tree.

mircea_popescu: for the following reason : v adoption will induce a major shift in how software is treated,

mircea_popescu: but this is not a matter to be handwaved.

mircea_popescu: if i want to represent alf's signature as "asciilifeform", "ascii_butugychag" or more or just a subset, it should be up to me.

mircea_popescu: there's a simple privacy breaking thing where a site feeding you a bunch of favicons can figure out where you've been by looking at which you load.

mircea_popescu: The first time I went to Chipotle was around 2004, when the then-novelty of a burrito chain opened within two minutes walking distance from my high school."

mircea_popescu: she kept a blog years ago but didn't write much in it. she did write asylum with me, so there's that.

mircea_popescu: As a solution, Ms. McCuller created her own search engine, an amalgam of other search sites that does not force the user to move slowly around the site and wade through advertisements to find the right place to enter a query. Search words are entered at the top of the page, and appropriate links are displayed above all other material as well. Users do not need to tab through extraneous material."

mircea_popescu: That is because the blind, even with text‑reading software, cannot glance at a page. There is no way for them to get a quick visual overview of a site�s contents and make mental notes about where it would be worthwhile clicking and exploring later. Rather, the blind must laboriously click from line to line, determining by a process of elimination where they want to go.

mircea_popescu: "Marti McCuller, a legally blind Web site developer, was frustrated by her difficulty in navigating through search engines. �My text‑to‑speech software let me read the various search sites,� she said, �but they often put so many links on a page it became hard to use.�

mircea_popescu: so a month old.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> holy shit, year-old instructions ?!!1 << the link he gave references a log line by me from just before xmas.

mircea_popescu: lotta people suddenly got interested, caught us with the pants down in a very wrong spot to have pants down.

mircea_popescu: listen, ben_vulpes mod6 you gotta have a process to prevent this situation. no documentation is bad. wrong or obsolete documentation is way way worse.