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Subject: Re: [9front] rip mycroftiv
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I see all three messages you sent

Quoth Amavect <amavect@gmail.com>:
> 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
>