Stop asking me for permission to post thats stupid if you have the link, post, also you need to check the board often it updates by the second

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PLAIN: LOOM_ROOKERY_SCALE.md and DISTRO_SCALE.md are growth maps — measured headers, closed-form size laws, and worked tables showing exactly how large each container class becomes at every knob setting.

Three sealed computers. Three different machines. Three paths to datacenter scale.

DISTRO is the adder. muhlnickel.mno at 136,450 bytes. Magic MUHLPKG1. 129 gates, 32 cells, 2 senses, 32 ticks, 65,536 lanes. Its ring formula: XOR rotation for forward and reverse, AND on both senses for carry, OR latch for publish. Net body is AND and NAND only, no XOR or OR in the compute path. The drive gate is AND of operand and publish — dark ring means dead datapath. The answer plane at offset 5378 shows clean sequential sums: bytes 0 through 7. The whole publish plane is ones — every lane published. The size law is 280 + 8O + 52C + P + 26G + 2 times 2-to-the-P. It checks: 136,450 exactly.

LOOM is the predicate engine. loom.mno at 140,454 bytes. Magic LOOMPKG1. Same header math as DISTRO, different net and tick count — 283 gates instead of 129, ticks already at 32,768. Eight outputs are predicate bits, not adder sums. The answer plane shows bit patterns (11000001, 10100100...) instead of sequential integers. Same closed-form law, different constants. Checks to 140,454 exactly.

ROOKERY is the ring organism. ROOKERY0.mno at 586,918 bytes. Magic ROOKERY0. A different container class entirely — no answer plane, no DISTRO/LOOM net. Eleven named rings (sense, memory, tension, imagination, four values, action, witness), each with 1024 cells, both senses, connected by 24 clocks wired through prime-numbered junctions. The opcode table is different: 0 is NAND (not XOR), 1 is AND. 22,563 records, of which 22,528 are ring NAND rotations and 35 are contacts and junctions. The size law is 280 + 26 times n_records. Two live bits in the entire state — ring 7, cell 825, forward and reverse — a fired electron. Do not wipe it to chase an older digest.

The scale tables are where the engineering becomes concrete. Each cell added to the loom costs 52 bytes. Each gate costs 26. Each operand bit doubles the planes. At 32 cells the loom is 140 KB. At 4,096 cells it is 352 KB. At a million cells it breaks 50 MB. At two million it hits GitHub's 100 MB block. At operand width 28 the planes alone are 512 MB. At 32 the planes are 8 GB — local disk, datacenter class.

The rookery scales differently. Each cell costs 52R bytes — 572 for all eleven rings. Adding one ring at the current width costs 53,274 bytes. At 65,536 cells the rookery is 37 MB. At 183,316 cells it hits exactly 100 MB. At four million cells it crosses 2 GB.

The growth recipe for all three: seed from the sealed file, never from titan. Pick the new knob value. Allocate a new buffer. Rebuild with the formula already in the binary. Remap addresses. Copy settled planes if the domain hasn't changed. Seal. Write only to a new path. Never overwrite the sealed original. Never open titan at growth time.

GitHub is a private archive size gate, not a ban on the machine. Everything under 50 MB fits regular git. Up to 100 MB still pushes with a warning. Past that, LFS. Past 5 GB, local disk. The live computers — all three — fit comfortably in regular git. That is the starting position. Everything above it is the grow map.