asciilifeform: s and children experience that they can guess faster than they can learn. This latter thing is what I mostly associate with stupidity, however, and why I do _not_ equate intelligence with absence of stupidity. Quite the contrary, the more intelligent, the more potential to be stupid in just this crucial way, to believe that what you can pick out of your own mind at zero cost is better than what must be dug up fr
asciilifeform: 'I have never seen unintelligent or children of average intelligence muster the intellectual power that causes them to believe their own mind to be better and more trustworthy than reality, although the enjoyment of every kind of magic and fairytales and mystic and wizardry is a sign that many _wish_ their minds were better than reality at a certain age. I have concluded that it is a phenomenal curse when it i☟︎
asciilifeform: but (can't recall) either tax authorities are not limited in this way, or they ruled that the machine was not really 'tool of trade'
asciilifeform: which was interesting, because 'tools of crafsman' are normally exempted from auction by creditors
asciilifeform: no, just example of somebody who actually relied on a micro airplane for a living
asciilifeform: (summary: fellow worked a bunch of ancient software consulting gigs. owed $maxint in tax somehow. told that his little airplane would be sold to pay the debt. went spectacularly postal.)
asciilifeform utterly bewildered that 'serious' people are willing to use non-ecc ram.
asciilifeform even now running amd hardware ('tyan' circa 2007) largely because amd mobos with ecc support and multiple pcie-16 slots have vanished into some mysterious black hole.☟︎
asciilifeform: 'More interestingly, many Americans no longer even understand the concepts of loyalty and treason—again, not surprising, since for a few generations now they have been ruled by traitors, whose routine acts of betrayal are designed to benefit just about anyone—from Israeli arms smugglers to Afghani heroin dealers—except the people who supposedly elect them to office.'
asciilifeform: he didn't say much. possibly - understood.
asciilifeform: me: 'say tomorrow chinese come. i learn chinese, become translator. i turn my back to you in dark alley. now what'
asciilifeform: him: 'those motherfuckers, can you believe, they shot my translator the first minute he was alone.'
asciilifeform: reminds me of a convo i once had with a former american soldier (remains nameless)
asciilifeform: '...the names of political dissidents who were in contact with the US Embassy' << 'world's smallest violin' plays.
asciilifeform: when turning stoolie - remember about the list.
asciilifeform: (usually heavily borrowed from old. in east germany, how many heads rolled? zero)
asciilifeform: sometimes - rarely - mob gets the list.
asciilifeform: in any country, there is - starting from local constabulary to the national gendarmerie - an archive, with list of stoolies, provocateurs, agents.
asciilifeform: lol at expecting anyone to have sympathy for the folks who lost their heads from cables.csv (assuming any)
asciilifeform: decimation: aes hard disk << what actually happens inside the drive? how does one know? this is not a minor detail - it's the beginning and end.
asciilifeform: (is assange even associated with a key?)
asciilifeform: very telling detail - neither intel nor amd publish microcode documentation. (intel's microcode loader is known only from the leaked ami src, afaik. amd's is public. intel crypts their patches, amd - no. both release opaque binary blobs for microcode, no docs.)
asciilifeform: ^ what isn't in there is considerably more interesting than what is
asciilifeform blows dust of volumes of intel & amd cpu manual
asciilifeform: (decades of legacy crud, endless mine of 'plausibly deniable' bug, documentation that would fill an entire bookcase and - when available - in heavily censored version, etc.)
asciilifeform: and intel products are the very same ideas, incarnated as hardware.
