asciilifeform: i was hoping to rationally convince people that the totality of the project ought to be the mailing list, the totality of the mailing list ought to consist of gpg-signed ascii text, and that this includes patch sets - which, collectively, add up to the product.
asciilifeform: use git for private dildonic pleasure. or for playing with friends. i do.☟︎
asciilifeform: naked eye means - no tools other than apparatus capable of displaying ascii text - plus one which can verify signature.
asciilifeform: that the entirety of everything submitted by a contributor must be signed, every time, with his gpg key, and this fact be visible to the naked eye at all times
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: conventional version control - for private dildonic pleasure. for project like bitcoin where any change whatsoever might sink a galaxy - no.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: read why and then think again. ten times.
asciilifeform: ehe here we kinda do more psychiatry than psychology
asciilifeform: it's intended to process strings << incidentally - 'SNOBOL'. i invite folks to read about it. the idea of dedicated 'string processing' languages is rather old, and has not really gone anywhere 'snobol' hadn't gone.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: theo de raadt has a microvax somewhere in his cellar
asciilifeform: chinese << forget chinese. nothing i - a peasant - so much as breathed on - will ever be crowned 'eal'.
asciilifeform: one of the sad prices we paid when switched to digital computers is the inevitable forgetting that we are playing with physical machines, and not mathematical platonic forms.
