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mircea_popescu: more like "i have so little, please don't make it less."
mircea_popescu: pulp was never literature. it seemed like it, because of the nonsenser that was early 19th century new york.
mircea_popescu: as they cheapened and broadened they took their proper place. not because "there aren't real wearers anymore"
mircea_popescu: his nostalgia is misplaced. the first time they came up with synthetic fibers people wore them out of pride. "look at me, i am one of those withthe industry"
mircea_popescu: "readers" meant "people more than willing to root through the shit, because literacy is new and printing only last year became affordable"
mircea_popescu: i think they all did that, in the olden penny a word days
mircea_popescu: anyway, back to ellison, guy apparently wrote a shitton. i suppose it's mostly that we don't give a shit about their pulpy universes.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field nobody goes to jail for THAT kinda fraud right ?
mircea_popescu: sf in the 50s was a spare cycle endeavour of the people who at the time didn't have bbs yet.
mircea_popescu: right. it's basically if they start putting on "as seen in bash.bitcoin-assets.org" on shit long after we all left.
mircea_popescu: this doesn't qualify it for "some shit they made up for the cover" ?
mircea_popescu: was a big scandal in the tiny cup. evnetually tho... lo! i am vindicated.
mircea_popescu: i was suspicious at the time. had an argument with other teens, with me going "that's prolly just some shit they made up for the cover"
mircea_popescu: and they all sported various awards, nebula, hugo, whatever.
mircea_popescu: i recall when i was a kid, some of the first books printed in shiny covers etc were various sf works, which is how i even ended up owning some (ender's game, dune, other americas, crap like that) - they looked good.
mircea_popescu: kinda goes with the woman's complaints about the what was it, hugo award ?
mircea_popescu: and where's that pic nubbins put in, with the "you do not want an adaptor, you think you do becaus you fucked up the light arrangement"
mircea_popescu: "this is the sort of item you only ever want because you fucked something else up"
mircea_popescu: obviously a bad idea, just not in their circumstances.
mircea_popescu: maybe you want an ak with a curved barrel, for all i care.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field note that i wasn't commenting on whether i or anyone else would or not would want x. merely on how much sense x makes, given other things.
mircea_popescu: like you know, "an empire". yes the empire may sink, but usually not in water.
mircea_popescu: you know the harem is not like, a block of cheese. it's an abstract name given to a complex social reality.
mircea_popescu: have a bunch of techs and mandatory clothing insurance.
mircea_popescu: tailor tailors for the body, it's sinnewy depths, not for the skinshape.
mircea_popescu: well... my tailor here'd prolly do it. it'd be weird as all fuck... but hey.
mircea_popescu: it'd seem to me it'd be more painful to have panties made for no particular cock than you know, a shirt.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field the problem is that you always have a finite workspace.
mircea_popescu: if it weren't, the square eye wouldn't put 3x more focus on horiz than it puts on vert sync.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field you're eliding the point. the fact that your misshapen pixels allow you to not see the distortion means your meat is made to look through a tank periscope in the first place.
mircea_popescu: anyway. i don't hate scrolling. i hate the situation where my field is fixed.
mircea_popescu: but the pixels themselves! every inch is 100 sideways and 40 vertically.
mircea_popescu: given that people's horiz precision is what, 3x their vert precision.
mircea_popescu: because if you don't, seems to me you're looking through that tank periscope anyway
mircea_popescu: do you also hate inequal pixel sizes ? like, you know, is your monitor square ?
mircea_popescu: as in "what everyone does" normal or as in "what should be done" normative-normal ?
mircea_popescu: i grant you, if you hate scrolling you'll have to engage in strange to compensate.
mircea_popescu: me being a folk who reads maths, and historeical documents. even the original blueprint.
mircea_popescu: actually trilema as-is works better for ALL of these than pdf.
mircea_popescu: but it still seems to me a narrow corner case notrly contemplated here.
mircea_popescu: now, one's experience may vary, i've not printed a book in a decade,
mircea_popescu: but fwiw, my experience as an actual author is that the html format is WAY better than the pdf format for the web, which is why trilema is not delivered in pdfs.
mircea_popescu: so because -unprocessed- pdf doesn't actually exist you figure this is an argument ?