asciilifeform: building sumthing like today's motor , in the last reich, would be 'clockmaker' job ( hand-polish the parts to tolerance ? ), and defo nonstarter at scale, yea
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu's current ride quite likely has moarhorse than 'king tiger' etc
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i do wonder if the bmw monster's 300 horse, would actually make any useful diff in mud road, vs. the classic zundapp's 10
asciilifeform: i always picture the result of 5-6 iterations of these, sumthing that loox perhaps like steel mill crucible
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: we have these here, and they even openly advertise, e.g. 'we'll cement new bathtub into yer old one! 3x cheaper!' etc
asciilifeform: so possible that koch 'duct taped' m-r onto it.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: for bonus lulz, there is also the 'duct tape' hypothesis. iirc in zimmerman's orig. 'pgp', ~straight fermat~ ( carmichaelizable! ) was used as the sole litmus.
asciilifeform: good % of what's in koch's thing, cannot be explained in any other way.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is consistent with the overall picture.
asciilifeform: Mocky: i dun drive these things, but iirc there is some free play b/w sidecar and bike
asciilifeform: Mocky: perhaps i'm thick, but why precisely can the pictured machine not turn right ?
asciilifeform: ( exactly how they did turns, i do not know , but was pretty good all-terrain ride and valuable as spoils , and for many yrs in su they could be seen puttering about )
asciilifeform: Mocky: the krauts used'em, by all accts worked a++
asciilifeform: by naive expectation, his (faux)m-r oughta me 1000-2000x faster than mine
asciilifeform: arguably this one's even moar outrageous, koch manages to lose even tho he uses miniscule bases in his modexp (in m-r)
asciilifeform: iirc mircea_popescu was the orig 'lead by example' in subj, ran (part of?) his reactor by hand
asciilifeform: imho the only possible arg against it is if you have e.g. 2 hands but 500 worth of process. but evidently jurov , trinque , et al had <= 2 hands worth☟︎
asciilifeform: e.g. asciilifeform tested FG's by hand.
asciilifeform: it makes perfect sense if the job 'fits in hands'
asciilifeform: ( iirc somebody asked diana_coman same q once )
asciilifeform: i dun have a squadron of searchers to 'square by square', either.
asciilifeform: fwiw i liked ar as a coupla-day thing, but can't picture it being so great to have to get on a plane erry time want tooth filled , buy some irons, etc
asciilifeform: 'best magician cannot pull rabbit from hat unless there is actually a rabit in the hat' or how did it go.
asciilifeform: 'ru-ar' d00d described 'month -- euphoria, then reality sets in when so happens you want a faucet fixed, or tooth capped, or to buy power brick for lappy' etc☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform finds himself frequently opening window in torture room even in winter
asciilifeform: mod6: evidently you dun have enuff comps running!11
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: apparently 'villa-31' standing for half century+ with 0 raids
asciilifeform: rom eu are carrying vacuum cleaners, tv sets, computers... country of deficits, like ye olde su'☟︎
asciilifeform: the ru d00d's www is interesting, he makes living in buenosaires by giving ru folx guided tours. and his descriptions of the place moar or less concur with mircea_popescu's : 'unprofessionalism in all possible venues: quality of service in restaurant; lawyers who have nfi about law; clerks who cannot count; cabbies that ask you to show'em the way; barbers who cannot shave... you will wonder why argentines in the airport coming back f
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: seems like it'sa right & proper favela, complete with zero signs on Official maps & 100% pinched mains current
asciilifeform: re argintines, somehow i entirely escaped finding out about 'villa-31' ( http://ru-ar.ru/villa31 notbad www re subj ) , rio-style favela right inside b-a☟︎
asciilifeform: at asciilifeform's local uni, even decade ago engineering, maffs, etc. were ~solid china ( + a bit of india ). these days even moar solid -- evidently they didn't get the memo yet, that miami is full
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: to nitpick, s/in Barrett's Modular Reduction/in modular exponentiation/ , koch dun use barrett ( he uses montgomery, which dies on even numbers, lol )
