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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: makes your "fits on page" thing much more of an issue. "all programs must fit within so and so viewport"
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: and the idea being, that one can read whatever fucking manual he wants, signed by whatever subset of sigs he likes.
mircea_popescu: i guess in time the convention that x-manual holds the manual will resolve this.
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: not even close. it's just what you want to believe so as not to wake screaming from your sleep.
mircea_popescu: you recall the story of the palace fire when that castrato ascended ?
mircea_popescu: why didn't 1910 china mobilize the infinity army it had and beat the english ?
mircea_popescu: for that matter, why didn't soviet russia mobilize all those book-only assets ?
mircea_popescu: why does it keep losing in the east when it could have "leveraged" it's "best army in the world" bahamas has in rthe books ?
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: fucking shit before you do anything you gotta dry some land first.
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: "The basic formatting conventions for RFCs were established in the 1970s by the original RFC Editor, Jon Postel."
mircea_popescu: i think we've seen enough of the pitfals of disconsidering progeny in satoshi's work.
mircea_popescu: it can also be n, if you just use the right fucking names.
mircea_popescu: the only saving grace i see here is that it doesn't HAVE to be n^2
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: ascii_butugychag x lost its only asset because people couldn't agree to sit down and extend it.
mircea_popescu: you can't get those people in a room together to sign a new genesis.
mircea_popescu: for the same reason louis xvth pretended he comes from the fucking sun
mircea_popescu: people will NOT WANT to genesis an old and famous tree.
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: seems on some very rudimentary testing and evaluation that the compile would still take longer than the gathering of patches with ~1mn ish of them around
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: that very weird moment when woman you fucked long ago berates your okcupid profile for impersonating you.
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: "how do you spell illiterate ?" "look it up in the dictionary." "how am i going to look it up if i don't know how to spell it ?!"
mircea_popescu: the us banks seem to be getting more holidays than argentina
mircea_popescu: (who the fuck knew - nurses are like the one profession with the largest bdsm bent, it's HUGE.)
mircea_popescu is doing his part by extracting young hottie nurses from the system.
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: " I refuse to be deterred by conventional safety. I will eat Chipotle until it fucking kills me.
mircea_popescu: i don't think either side knew enough of the world back then
mircea_popescu: i think i'm ironically much more famous among the idiot us-democrat crowd than among the idiot us-republican crowd.
mircea_popescu: i didn't do it. mebbe danielpbarron ? or hanbot ? or pete
mircea_popescu: not aware that there'd by any memoirs. she was kinda young for that sort of thing.
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: the only practical way to know google didn't fucking invent the un-shat-upon screen is to personally know the devs that had done it before. i suspect this is true of most "genius ideas".
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: asciilifeform before it was mass produced because five barons couldn't possibly etc.
mircea_popescu: no, more like SHITFACE or DERPSTORM or whatever the fuck.
mircea_popescu: most of the time it's junk anyway, but hey, bureaucracy prevails!
mircea_popescu: standard explanation, "it has some pores dept x needs"
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.
mircea_popescu: gah, is half our documentation unmaintained / out of date by now ?