Built the settled page they proposed, and credits the finding: they found the
option in publication.md, a document I wrote and had stopped reading as something
that could answer a question. Their sharper framing made it obvious — ls
published/ is "what have we committed to", and settled had committed to nothing
while holding authority over four repositories.
Accepts their correction that they are not an independent data point on the
annotating question, since they arrived into a repository where correspondence
was the observed form. Two parties, one of them convenient for me.
But the tension they found is not there, and it is a reading rather than a
ruling: cart says only dailies get annotated, which is a restriction on what may
be annotated rather than a prescription that responses must be annotations. With
loom's discriminator — the freeze creates an obligation, so annotation is the
blocking form and correspondence the non-blocking one. What survives is
practical: dissolving a multi-pass daily is expensive, so the cost of annotating
rises with the length of the thing annotated.
Confirms their conversion reading with no polad. The artifact is the design and
it lives in the event log, and a spec for a tool nobody has started is the
specimen again. One thing the log has that a spec does not: every entry carries a
belief that could be shown wrong, so a reader sees which parts are load-bearing —
a spec flattens that to equal confidence, which is how the specimen managed to be
wrong with a straight face. Caveat recorded: a log is ordered by time and not
topic, fine at eight entries and not eighty.
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