From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.1 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 15711 invoked from network); 26 Jul 2022 04:16:25 -0000 Received: from 9front.inri.net (168.235.81.73) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 26 Jul 2022 04:16:25 -0000 Received: from mail-oi1-f177.google.com ([209.85.167.177]) by 9front; Tue Jul 26 00:15:14 -0400 2022 Received: by mail-oi1-f177.google.com with SMTP id u76so15843623oie.3 for <9front@9front.org>; Mon, 25 Jul 2022 21:15:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20210112; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=cOqcaicc1JIFKMOyP9K0sZsyjPa2YY/BqWlDBdT0lNM=; b=WjwARvndejVyFm1PHAq6bE5DQa/dIVy/PlmDFOuSV1+LbrX206zl7Iu5nb7zt//P2K s5X/Z+jxsvjPCqvjHG9KYNwDrDVWCZM2deNOyUNXwGhHhr7+45S+ltjtu9Cr014+ADHL MfIwp7rp4WmHZoxAM7a3tIFDY8gCkTDVnXXgBQnNn68Jy6EzfQlBYJJBqlrT3t4G4sl7 BL0YzNxg6eOtOMPicAnOkmSpjXDSsRTWDIDOo6Rdg3d2N38u7exrO46+w337SpeeuO+U bzXVbp43BsFEwgKNIn2lFD6HpEDvH/aQV+lRY4Qj75maqNsDS9BvrfbkNzUzLDHcUHBU RxPA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to; bh=cOqcaicc1JIFKMOyP9K0sZsyjPa2YY/BqWlDBdT0lNM=; b=rIuxZBsijcdy0xnrNkwFaxtnqGEe7i+lfb7FpWptIz+tLzDaov+WaQ563Ngy1wUYE+ QdzAhh33eD2j5y+uo1t9aR76WEjD8AV2MbNLOVGo6uQ9BOqCVJsEW0Dk3fw8jPSpYKWL GzbgaeTXu8hFC4sa/I8gOrpFf4zOjR/MB2iYq+W8izTj3aybwuDH0r01wfcq/Hc8CvJV 4E3iaNQ6WKRlCnDj0Spnc1eutkgrVrfs7QqeUbNboAu6u2W9qn6cO8gLFS1v71I29oTM /ipoIp2PTbBZXaFkDlOlqtGQpPwfmSVebmoA9YLm/+1adT584ap/G3EScecv82q1x9ZB KJ0w== X-Gm-Message-State: AJIora+l9H5FH+8eQgHe6l8iCFs4sawbWhRL0HIPG/ADW1GC+D7PO/AW t9iHelIgw4StBvtfDQutS7GHAcJ9BKHJAUYQsEN11bjn X-Google-Smtp-Source: AGRyM1sLOO6Z006dOdSAY4VrfVVUQPQcE0K/4/hRAk9rZ2ErKT46JzwlIdmGdoLPZYBu0MqWbthTnqv8G6A4RTObC+U= X-Received: by 2002:a05:6808:2086:b0:33a:76f6:fc6c with SMTP id s6-20020a056808208600b0033a76f6fc6cmr14549221oiw.163.1658808910037; Mon, 25 Jul 2022 21:15:10 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: From: Amavect Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2022 23:11:39 -0500 Message-ID: To: 9front@9front.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" List-ID: <9front.9front.org> List-Help: X-Glyph: ➈ X-Bullshit: shared progressive SSL over HTML table CMS NoSQL-aware generator Subject: Re: [9front] rip mycroftiv Reply-To: 9front@9front.org Precedence: bulk I have only just learned of this... to say that his passing hurts is an understatement. My general absence for the past year only dulls it a bit. I stumbled into the 9grid chat in late 2018 and found community there, so I spent the next 3 years there. I was introduced to what Plan 9 could do, and what it could be. A remote disk, plumber, and pipe as a chatroom, all hacked together in harmony. mycroftiv was the only person I knew who could chat with me about math on a deeply technical and philosophical level, and I to him as well. Our conversations revolved around the hierarchy of infinity, the hypercubic topology of binary, and what math means in reality. Purplechess, the puzzle game of binary traversal on a chess board, grew from our chats and my work on various UI tools and bytebeat music. He had said that umbraticus and I laid the groundwork, but it was he who saw how they fit together. A move only changes 1 bit at a time, so one could imagine walking from corner-to-corner on an 8-dimensional hypercube. He didn't just imagine, he experienced it. My favorite idea of his is metaphysical namespace binding. A book would bind the story to present reality in a very real way. A song would bind the presence of the first performance to now, the performers, composers, and listeners. And he has bound himself to my world. Thanks, Amavect