asciilifeform: satan preserve us, i can hear that thing's cpu load through inductor whine from across a table.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there was, iirc, a record of this very procedure being performed on a woman in (?) mexico

asciilifeform: i mean, back to the story, all i had to do is reach across desk and grab a ttl serial octopus. but what are folks supposed to do who don't have one?

asciilifeform: funnily, i have a circa-1998 wireless router, that has precisely this form

asciilifeform: manual says 'class a'

asciilifeform: http://imgur.com/a/llwZ2 ☟︎

asciilifeform: (as they say in britain) 'a whole policeman!'

asciilifeform: 'What this means in practice, for me at least, is that as soon as it starts looking like I am heading in the direction of acquiring a specific job title or job description, or getting involved in something that might require registration, certification or licensing, then I need to backtrack or head in a different direction for a bit, until everybody loses interest. In doing so I sometimes forgo some opportunities for an increa

asciilifeform: likewise a good, e.g., sniper

asciilifeform: pilot will readily concede that much of what he knows is trained like a dog is trained

asciilifeform: in the latter, a тренер is the fellow who helps an athlete get.. more athletic. in english world, 'training' is done to dogs and cubicle dwellers

asciilifeform: if trained as in what a strong man in a circus does to get strong - then, yes, trained (but note, not every man can become a circus lifter)

asciilifeform: if 'trained' is what one can do with a parrot - then, no, intelligence is something quite else

asciilifeform: i worked with a whole mess of folks who could solve this one, for some value of 'solved'

asciilifeform: they 'reproduce' by popping out of the zero point vacuum for a little while.

asciilifeform: well yes. you may have to devise a similarly peculiar example, if your friends read #b-a.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: try this with one of your pets. tell her 'waveguide motor' and see if she is able to draw one that could, in principle, function. or at least say what such a thing would be.

asciilifeform: if this is a 'muscle' that can be 'well trained' - this is not a 'margarine', but a 'real butter'. idempotent.

asciilifeform: actually, this is almost a fundamental question. like 'sexual orientation.' how many 'iq' points below yours (for a particular fellow) does 'zoophilia' begin ?

asciilifeform: just as a small spot, on some rusted razors - semiconducts.