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<bofh> ffs
<bofh> GreeningGalaxy: sec
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<GreeningGalaxy> !wpn bofh
* Qboid gives bofh a thyme cohomology
<whitequark> GreeningGalaxy: basically any AVR part is fine
<whitequark> they're very similar
<GreeningGalaxy> cool
<GreeningGalaxy> Practically speaking I just want a thing that I can stuff into a gizmo and tell it "when these things happen, do this, and when these other things happen, do this other thing" etc, that doesn't cost much and isn't very large (but not so tiny that it's impossible to solder without the patience of a saint and/or an industrial budget)
<GreeningGalaxy> 14-pin SOICs fit the bill perfectly for packaging.
<whitequark> sure
<GreeningGalaxy> if I don't need most of the I/Os, I might even get away with soldering them to standard-sized perf, lol
<GreeningGalaxy> unless I absolutely need two adjacent pins. I'll have to look at the pinout again.
<GreeningGalaxy> in any case, 14-pin SOIC/TSSOP is the one breakout board we actually have around here, so I'm not worried about mounting.
<GreeningGalaxy> whitequark: are they the same to the extent that if I find a tutorial for "programming ATTINY{whatever} in assembly", it will work for all or most other ATTINYs?
<GreeningGalaxy> er, scuse me, that's f"programming ATTINY{whatever} in assembly"
<whitequark> GreeningGalaxy: programming AVR in assembly
<whitequark> that's enough
<whitequark> for any AVR
<GreeningGalaxy> cool.
<GreeningGalaxy> ooh, and what's this? Microchip lists the ATTINY20 as having capacitive touch channels?
<GreeningGalaxy> how much external hardware are those going to take to use? I'm totally getting ahead of myself here but that sounds like fun.
<whitequark> zero
<whitequark> avrs dont need external components
<whitequark> though a bypass cap on power pins is advised as always
<GreeningGalaxy> sure
<GreeningGalaxy> wow, that's cool. These little capacitive-touch-activated USB LED lights I got in Shenzhen have a lot of little capacitors and resistors everywhere so I wondered if you had to set up some kind of network outside the MCU to get that working
<GreeningGalaxy> (they use completely unmarked MCUs so I have no idea what they even are)
<whitequark> might be masked asics with some sort of standard code
<whitequark> core*
<whitequark> 8051 or something (it's royalty-free avr is not)
<GreeningGalaxy> 8051 is the one you warned me off with the nRF thing, right?
<whitequark> yea
<GreeningGalaxy> how common is it to get an asic made for a product, anyway? I get the idea the process is involved and expensive, but it seems like it's a big business.
<SnoopJeDi> that's a really good hackaday.com type question
<SnoopJeDi> ...and there's a "Hack Chat" they're hosting tomorrow about ASIC design, so maybe that's up your alley GreeningGalaxy http://hackaday.com/2017/03/15/friday-hack-chat-asic-design/
<GreeningGalaxy> cool
<SnoopJeDi> I really love their community
<SnoopJeDi> Even if I don't really grok the hardware jargon that well
<GreeningGalaxy> Might check that out tomorrow while avoiding the city drunkards.
<SnoopJeDi> I will be a drunkard :v
<SnoopJeDi> There's a rock band in the Houston area that always comes here for St Paddy's and plays lots of good irish-american folk songs
<GreeningGalaxy> God, I'm constantly horrified by those package styles that have grids of tiny contacts all across the bottom. They're so tiny! You can't even reach them with an iron! How do you know if any of them get bridged on you? aaaaagh
<GreeningGalaxy> how does the PCB even work with that many contacts in that fine a grid? aaaaaaaaaa
<SnoopJeDi> Are you talking about ICs, or the contacts on the PCB itself?
<SnoopJeDi> I think heat guns and reflow are more common for the latter
<SnoopJeDi> but hey, if you've got a toaster oven... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCGzKDTFBSQ
<kmath_> YouTube - Solder Over: Transform Your Toaster Oven In To A Solder Reflow Oven
<GreeningGalaxy> well yeah it must be reflow, but debugging it must be nigh impossible
<kmath_> <cyberpupk> this is unreal https://t.co/VyWXP042l3
<GreeningGalaxy> maybe you just use vanishingly small amounts of solder and clamp it down really hard
<SnoopJeDi> My understanding was it just flows off and it's a CFD problem at that point GreeningGalaxy
<SnoopJeDi> but I don't really electronics so probably don't mind me
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<GreeningGalaxy> whitequark: oh god. My friend has one of those, I should see if he's willing to part with it now.
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<whitequark> GreeningGalaxy: grids of tiny contacts across the bottom?
<whitequark> do you mean BGA or QFN?
<whitequark> (the former is usually a grid, the latter is more of a perimeter)
<GreeningGalaxy> BGA, yeah. QFN I understand. QFN is okay.
<whitequark> in case of BGA, yes, you have to reflow. it's less finicky than you think because the surface tension of metal is very high
<GreeningGalaxy> hmm
<whitequark> but in general you have to use X-rays to diagnose the board
<whitequark> fortunately, it's easily accessible
<SnoopJeDi> TIL
<SnoopJeDi> BGA?
<SnoopJeDi> QFN?
<GreeningGalaxy> oh yeah, you were the one who posted about getting stuff x-rayed
<whitequark> !acronym -add:BGA Ball Grid Array
<Qboid> whitequark: I added the explanation for this acronym.
<SnoopJeDi> !acr -add:QFN Quad Flat No-leads package
<Qboid> SnoopJeDi: I added the explanation for this acronym.
<whitequark> !acr -add:TQFP Thin Quad Flat Package
<Qboid> whitequark: I added the explanation for this acronym.
<whitequark> !acr -add:QFP Quad Flat Package
<Qboid> whitequark: I added the explanation for this acronym.
<whitequark> !acr -add:LQFP Low-profile Quad Flat Package
<Qboid> whitequark: I added the explanation for this acronym.
<whitequark> !acr -add:SOIC Small Outline Integrated Circuit
<Qboid> whitequark: I added the explanation for this acronym.
<whitequark> !acr -add:DIP Dual In-line Package
<Qboid> whitequark: I added the explanation for this acronym.
<SnoopJeDi> I am consistently in quiet awe of the smarts contained in this channel.
<whitequark> !acr -add:SIP Single In-line Package
<Qboid> whitequark: I already know an explanation for SIP! (Update it with !acr -update:SIP Single In-line Package)
<GreeningGalaxy> and here I was thinking SOIC was "solder-on IC" because my prof called them that once.
<whitequark> SIP?
<Qboid> whitequark: [SIP] => Supplementary Ideographic Plane
<whitequark> !acr -add:SMD Surface Mount Device
<Qboid> whitequark: I added the explanation for this acronym.
<whitequark> !acr -add:SMT Surface Mount Technology
<Qboid> whitequark: I added the explanation for this acronym.
<whitequark> !acr -add:LGA Land Grid Array
<Qboid> whitequark: I added the explanation for this acronym.
<whitequark> !acr -add:TSSOP Thin-Shrink Small Outline Package
<Qboid> whitequark: I added the explanation for this acronym.
<whitequark> !acr -add:TSOP Thin Small Outline Package
<Qboid> whitequark: I added the explanation for this acronym.
<whitequark> !acr -add:FCBGA Flip Chip Ball Grid Array
<Qboid> whitequark: I added the explanation for this acronym.
<whitequark> !acr -add:WLCSP Wafer Level Chip Scale Package
<Qboid> whitequark: I added the explanation for this acronym.
<whitequark> !acr -add:SOD Small Outline Diode
<Qboid> whitequark: I added the explanation for this acronym.
<whitequark> !acr -add:SOT Small Outline Transistor
<Qboid> whitequark: I added the explanation for this acronym.
* whitequark scratches head
<GreeningGalaxy> whitequark: what I'm really curious about is how the PCB end of things looks for BGA. Are the traces just super tiny and squeeze between the contacts, or are there crazy numbers of layers, or what
<whitequark> !acr -add:PoP Package-on-Package
<Qboid> whitequark: I added the explanation for this acronym.
<whitequark> !acr -add:COB Chip-On-Board
<Qboid> whitequark: I added the explanation for this acronym.
<whitequark> !acr -add:COG Chip-On-Glass
<Qboid> whitequark: I added the explanation for this acronym.
<whitequark> I think that's all common ones
<whitequark> GreeningGalaxy: both
<whitequark> you need like 6 mil tolerances or lower for most BGA packages
<whitequark> then you have special "BGA fanout patterns"
<whitequark> and you need at *least* four layers (in which case, with a large package, you can't use inner balls)
<whitequark> with six, it's more freedom
<GreeningGalaxy> wow
<whitequark> and the total amount of layers on board is basically unlimited
<whitequark> your motherboard is probably 8 or 10
<whitequark> specialty boards can go as high as 30-40
<GreeningGalaxy> I'm so glad it's not my job to design boards like that today. Maybe someday. Not today.
<whitequark> oh, and the bottom of the BGA package?
<whitequark> actually, it's another PCB.
<whitequark> with super extra thin layers and traces.
<GreeningGalaxy> naak
<SnoopJeDi> PNW chip industry is hiring like crazy right now
<whitequark> the IC is bonded out as COB
<SnoopJeDi> Probably will be even more intense when you're ready to hit the market GreeningGalaxy
<SnoopJeDi> all the old-timers retiring
<GreeningGalaxy> probably.
<whitequark> GreeningGalaxy: there's also interesting things like vias in pads
<whitequark> which require more expensive boards but ease fanout
<whitequark> BGA escape routing looks like this generaly
<whitequark> s/fanout/escape/ above
<GreeningGalaxy> huh
<whitequark> and here we have a wonderful specimen of TopoR autorouting
<whitequark> i.e. topological, not grid-based
<GreeningGalaxy> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
<whitequark> incidentally, did you know that most of the balls underneath any large BGA IC are power?
<whitequark> since individual ones don't carry that much
<GreeningGalaxy> oh, of course.
<whitequark> and there are some that are purely structural too
<whitequark> it doesn't have to be a grid btw.
<GreeningGalaxy> I think I've seen something like those autorouted traces by closely examining the back of a microSD card. Lots of organic-looking nonsense going everywhere.
<whitequark> Intel CPUs also have some sacrificial balls, designed to take a punishment but protect the rest
<whitequark> GreeningGalaxy: speaking of microSDs
<whitequark> they use die stacking
<whitequark> so individual dice are polished until they're as thin as 100 um
<whitequark> then they're glued in a stack and bonded together, maybe sixteen of them
<GreeningGalaxy> whoa
<SnoopJeDi> this isn't dropping knowledge bombs, this is knowledge carpet bombing
<GreeningGalaxy> more like saturation bombing
<GreeningGalaxy> I feel like our civilization is going to leave some very weird fossils behind.
<whitequark> ah yes
<whitequark> this is what I was looking for
<GreeningGalaxy> wow.
<whitequark> imagine assembling that shit.
<whitequark> GreeningGalaxy: if you want, I may try dissolving the epoxy of a microsd card in acid and looking at it
<whitequark> it's not as good as SEM images but...
<whitequark> something I want to do someday is reactive ion etching, to delayer ICs
<GreeningGalaxy> some of those words make sense. In the last message I mean, I'm pretty much good up until there.
<GreeningGalaxy> reactive ion etching? delayering?
<whitequark> !acr -add:RIE Reactive Ion Etching
<Qboid> whitequark: I added the explanation for this acronym.
<whitequark> so RIE basically works as follows:
<whitequark> you put an IC into a relatively cold oxygen-fluorine plasma and let it eat away at the glass and silicon
<whitequark> modern ICs are made through planarization. i.e. at the end of every basic step of the process, you have a flat surface
<whitequark> so the steps are composable.
<whitequark> you'd normally have a bottom layer with transistors, then some doped silicon interconnect, then metal interconnect
<whitequark> and the stuff in between is silica glass, of course.
<whitequark> you can actually etch things selectively, by tuning the composition of plasma
<whitequark> for example, pure fluorine would etch at glass but leave the metal and silicon alone
<whitequark> so you can expose bare 3d structure of wires in an IC without damaging it
<whitequark> sec
<kmath_> <whitequark> low keV focused ion beam application for integrated circuit editing. such a neat process! https://t.co/frCy0siJBM https://t.co/btKowUOHyh
<SnoopJeDi> oh wow
<GreeningGalaxy> ...fuck me, that's incredible
<GreeningGalaxy> although I was already kind of running away while still trying to listen as closely as possible when you said "fluorine" and "plasma" in the same sentence.
<whitequark> nah, it's not actually dangerous
<whitequark> you don't work with fluorine at any stage
<whitequark> you use CF4 gas
<whitequark> this is unfortunately very irritating because you can only get it in like 40L cylinders and you only *need* a few grams of it
<GreeningGalaxy> heh
<whitequark> howeeeever you could use regular refrigerants, hell, even R-134a
<whitequark> it has chlorine, so it will etch metal and silicon too
<whitequark> but that's fine for delayering
<whitequark> GreeningGalaxy: did I ever show you this thread https://twitter.com/whitequark/status/600015016293736448
<kmath_> <whitequark> I want to make a refrigerator from scratch really badly right now
<GreeningGalaxy> were you successful?
<SnoopJeDi> TIL inch is used for people elsewhere
<whitequark> oh, twitter is bad at threading
<kmath_> <whitequark> Well, about that http://t.co/p0L31PssWW
<GreeningGalaxy> oh, gotcha
<GreeningGalaxy> hey I think you have the same infrared thermometer I have
<whitequark> random amazon one
<GreeningGalaxy> random micro center one
<GreeningGalaxy> does yours also have a very poorly aligned laser sight and make an annoying double-beep every time you release the trigger?
<whitequark> yes
<GreeningGalaxy> (I solved the latter problem through invasive surgery on mine)
<GreeningGalaxy> pried it open, soldered off the beeper, somehow stuffed it back together in a way that worked. It had a lot of loosely-attached pieces that didn't like being let out of the casing.
<whitequark> GreeningGalaxy: if you click "five more replies" you'll see the end result too
<kmath_> <whitequark> I wanted to make a refrigerator I made a fucking refrigerator What do I do with it now http://t.co/5CHEG8pwJQ
<GreeningGalaxy> I should go to sleep. I'm laughing way too hard at https://twitter.com/whitequark/status/600350807024914432
<kmath_> <whitequark> @evilgaywitch like LEGO for making refrigerators. Except with waaaay more MAPP torch flame and "why the FUCK does this not fit"
<GreeningGalaxy> whitequark: you are an inspiration in every way
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<egg|zzz|egg> oh wow cat is live again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJf8W8qNuiM
<kmath_> YouTube - Gimbal cat-cam LIDAR add-on investigation @scanlime-in-progress
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn whitequark
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<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn Iskierka
* Qboid gives Iskierka a calcium rubidium fountain pen
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid gives UmbralRaptor a palladium synapsid
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<whitequark> !wpn egg|zzz|egg
* Qboid gives egg|zzz|egg a paraboloid
<egg|zzz|egg> hmm, bofh tofued a bit
<egg|zzz|egg> !u 
<Qboid> U+007F ()
<Qboid> U+007F ()
<Qboid> U+007F ()
<egg|zzz|egg> DELspam
<egg|zzz|egg> whitequark: I also have the same infrared thermometer
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn -add:wpn thermometer
<Qboid> egg|zzz|egg: Weapon added!
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn -add:adj infrared
<Qboid> egg|zzz|egg: Adjective already added!
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn -add:adj ultraviolet
<Qboid> egg|zzz|egg: Adjective already added!
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn -add:adj blue
<Qboid> egg|zzz|egg: Adjective added!
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn -add:adj visual
<Qboid> egg|zzz|egg: Adjective added!
<egg|zzz|egg> Also Nova has the same thermometer https://twitter.com/NovaSilisko/status/829853683789733889
<kmath_> <NovaSilisko> Got a bunch of adhesive-backed velcro. Beginning in earnest to organize like an astronaut... (this seems up… https://t.co/0NUtCTFgvx
<egg|zzz|egg> whitequark: did you see the draft release note for Cardano? https://github.com/mockingbirdnest/Principia/wiki/Change-Log#cardano
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<Thomas> Should be netsplitsafe now
<Thomas> !tell whitequark IRC Bouncer
* egg|zzz|egg pets Qboid
<Thomas> ...
<egg|zzz|egg> uh
<Thomas> !roll
<whitequark> !rickroll
<egg|zzz|egg> roll d20^5
<egg|zzz|egg> d20^5
<egg|zzz|egg> Soozee?
<egg|zzz|egg> d20
<Soozee> egg|zzz|egg: 3
<egg|zzz|egg> d20 * 5
<Soozee> egg|zzz|egg: 9 * 5 => 45
<egg|zzz|egg> d20 ** 5
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<Thomas> !roll
<egg|zzz|egg> d20 -- fixing Qboid
<Soozee> egg|zzz|egg: 19
* egg|zzz|egg off to make some poached eggs
<Thomas> !roll
<Qboid> Thomas: 4
<Thomas> Ok, it lives
<Thomas> !tell whitequark IRC Bouncer
<Qboid> Thomas: I'll redirect this as soon as they are around.
<whitequark> yes, yes, I noticed
<Qboid> whitequark: Thomas left a message for you in #kspacademia [17.03.2017 15:40:10]: "IRC Bouncer"
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<Thomas> :D
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<Thomas> !wpn whitequark
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<egg|zzz|egg> oh, nice big crows in the garden
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: Schawinskis!
* egg|zzz|egg stares at a backlog
<egg|zzz|egg> greening >_>
<egg|zzz|egg> WQITE?
<Qboid> egg|zzz|egg: [WQITE] => Whitequark-Induced Tab Explosion
<egg|zzz|egg> >_>
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<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn regex
* Qboid gives regex a metal cathode ray tube
<egg|zzz|egg> regex: any raspberry plans this yeaR?
<egg|zzz|egg> s/R/r
<Qboid> egg|zzz|egg meant to say: regex: any raspberry plans this yeaR?
<whitequark> egg|zzz|egg: um
<whitequark> who added that lol
<egg|zzz|egg> whitequark: Greening did it :-p
<whitequark> how come it's not in the log
<egg|zzz|egg> it's in another log :-p
<egg|zzz|egg> for another channel
<egg|zzz|egg> crosstalk \o/
<whitequark> oookay
<egg|zzz|egg> whitequark: also, currently pondering whether I should make a journal for principia or eggsplain to you how that vector field in-browser thingy can illustrate the wonders of the symplectic form :-p
<whitequark> mm
<egg|zzz|egg> maybe I should wait until Greening and Umbral are there, that way I can parallelize eggsplanations >_>
<egg|zzz|egg> (though tbh it's not like I have much to say)
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<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn GreeningGalaxy
* Qboid gives GreeningGalaxy a GPL'd 2N3904
<egg|zzz|egg> GreeningGalaxy: I appear to have a job offer!
<GreeningGalaxy> congratulations!
<egg|zzz|egg> GreeningGalaxy: also, tentative list of Principia releases https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uQjgDsFszE1AiYKJEZW_dOd8kgmz7jk_3QUDvmOVDK8/edit?usp=sharing
<egg|zzz|egg> regex: ^
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<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn e_14159
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<egg|zzz|egg> e_14159: wie geht's mit dem Arschlochfuehrer?
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<Thomas> egg|zzz|egg: wut :D
<Thomas> Aj
<Thomas> *ah
<e_14159> egg|zzz|egg: At the moment, I cannot decide whether you made a joke on Führer/Fahrer or whether it's a typo.
<e_14159> But no clue and no news.
<e_14159> In other, better, news, our paper got accepted.
<egg|zzz|egg> e_14159: I'm in switzerland, driver's licenses are called Führerausweis, not Fahrerlaubnis
<egg|zzz|egg> nomztime
<e_14159> egg|zzz|egg: Well, they don't have quite the same history with Führers...
<egg|zzz|egg> yeah, it does sound weird to my french ears thuogh
<egg|zzz|egg> the document that allows you to be the fuehrer? O_o
<e_14159> It's probably from Fahrzeugführer.
<soundnfury> !wpn egg|zzz|egg
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<regex> egg|zzz|egg, congrats on the job offer!
<e_14159> Oh, I totally missed that. Congratulations, egg.
<egg|zzz|egg> e_14159: yeah, it makes sense
<egg|zzz|egg> regex: e_14159: thanks!
<e_14159> From whom, if I might ask?
<egg|zzz|egg> Google
<egg|zzz|egg> e_14159: unrelated, we've decided to make a new release every new moon for principia
<e_14159> Would it be too nerdy to ask "Which moon"?
<e_14159> (Also, did you apply to other places?)
<egg|zzz|egg> I briefly considered other moons or eggsoplanet transits, but ours is fine
<egg|zzz|egg> e_14159: nah, just google
<e_14159> Zurich?
<egg|zzz|egg> yup
<egg|zzz|egg> interview process took its time because there was some reorg of the headcount >_>
<SnoopJeDi> ooh you got an offer? congrats egg|zzz|egg
<e_14159> For me, it took three months to go from interview to working. Huh. Felt longer.
<egg|zzz|egg> SnoopJeDi: thanks
<egg|zzz|egg> starting on 3rd of april
<SnoopJeDi> Not that I'm surprised, you're beyond competent
<e_14159> Do you know what you'll do there?
<SnoopJeDi> oh neato
<egg|zzz|egg> i18n in YouTube
<egg|zzz|egg> translating "cat" in 90+ languages probably? :-p
<kmath_> YouTube - Internationalis(z)ing Code - Computerphile
<SnoopJeDi> RIP egg|zzz|egg
<e_14159> i18n?
<Qboid> e_14159: [i18n] => Internationalization
<egg|zzz|egg> actually infrastructure to help others doing the i18n properly
<e_14159> s/properly/automatically
<e_14159> :P
* Thomas wonders if egg can now run principia builds on google servers? :D
<egg|zzz|egg> e_14159: nah, but there's stuff like making sure the translators get screenshots of everything they translate, providing libs for that and coverage etc., tools for automatically flagging CLs that look like they might break i18n for review by i18n people, etc.
<e_14159> Thomas: That _is_ the only way to run n-body physics. Remember, supercomputers needed.
<egg|zzz|egg> whitequark: oh yes, you may have escaped that particular meme ^ until principia got started people on the fora were utterly convinced that n-body KSP was impossible because of computational power requirements :D
<egg|zzz|egg> for all I know people on the fora might still think that, I rarely wander there
<egg|zzz|egg> tis a silly place
<SnoopJeDi> hehe e_14159
<SnoopJeDi> egg|zzz|egg, did you see whitequark's amazing brain-dump from last night
<egg|zzz|egg> SnoopJeDi: ?
<SnoopJeDi> GG was talking about soldering and surface mount and that turned into tons of knowledge bombs about electronics
<egg|zzz|egg> http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/120911-is-it-possible-to-now-have-true-nbody-simulation-in-ksp/#comment-2179695 !$#!#%#@$^#@$%@#$!@^%
<UmbralRaptor> No, it's not possible to do n-body on desktop hardware. See: my running out of RAM and swap when trying to advance Principia more than ~100 years >_>
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: I thought that was when building?
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: but mostly that's because of principia keeps histories :-p
<UmbralRaptor> IIRC, the test built but failed to run.
<egg|zzz|egg> hah
<UmbralRaptor> Or, rather tried to run. But then memory...
<UmbralRaptor> !choose Grade|Spectra|Brown Dwarfs
<Qboid> UmbralRaptor: Your options are: Grade, Spectra, Brown Dwarfs. My choice: Brown Dwarfs
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: kozai
* UmbralRaptor should add kozai in there.
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: you should work on kozai over the week-end!
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid gives UmbralRaptor a plutonium 2N2222-like épée
<soundnfury> !wpn
* Qboid gives soundnfury a gadolinium python
<UmbralRaptor> No, Qboid I will not put together circuits to do an analog simulation of the kozai mechanism.
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: especially circuits made out of Pu
<SnoopJeDi> mmm, ?
<kmath_> <FioraAeterna> @whitequark https://t.co/qS8H1fcIL4
<UmbralRaptor> egg|zzz|egg: Also Np?
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: hmm, Qboid should have a decay chain functionality
<egg|zzz|egg> probably doable with the existing alias stuff
<egg|zzz|egg> !slap egg
* Qboid puts egg into a small box that emulates real life, puts that box on his desk and analyzes his behavior
<egg|zzz|egg> !slap egg
* Qboid forks the source code of egg, replaces all semicolons with greek question marks and submits a pull request
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<GreeningGalaxy> I got an nRF24L01+ link working! \o/
<GreeningGalaxy> the range is surprising. I went all the way down the hall to the lobby (about 7 or 8 meters, through at least three walls) and the signal was still getting through.
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<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn GreeningGalaxy
* Qboid gives GreeningGalaxy a semisimple 2N3904
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid gives UmbralRaptor a ⅝λ adjective
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn whitequark
* Qboid gives whitequark a Hamiltonian 1N4148
<egg|zzz|egg> so many diodes
<egg|zzz|egg> also Qboid knows to give the diodes to the eleggtronics people
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn
* Qboid gives egg|zzz|egg a frustrum
<egg|zzz|egg> is that a frustrated frustum?
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<UmbralRaptor> Lacking a point is often highly frustrating.
<UmbralRaptor> !wpn egg|zzz|egg
* Qboid gives egg|zzz|egg a precessing IOMMU
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<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn GreeningGalaxy
* Qboid gives GreeningGalaxy a thorium NaN which strongly resembles an ordinal
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid gives UmbralRaptor a Hamiltonian astronomer
<egg|zzz|egg> >_>
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<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn regex
* Qboid gives regex a boiled wyvern
* UmbralRaptor was attacked by a wild phonecall.
<UmbralRaptor> !wpn wyvern
* Qboid gives wyvern a spectral solution
* egg|zzz|egg pets UmbralRaptor with a cat
* UmbralRaptor is allergic. =\
* egg|zzz|egg pets UmbralRaptor with a bird
<UmbralRaptor> birb!
* egg|zzz|egg is supposed to be allergic, from some test that showed antibodies for that, but then tends to put his nose on/pet ANBOcat without issues?
* UmbralRaptor is confused.
<soundnfury> !wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid gives UmbralRaptor a venomous standing wave ratio
<egg|zzz|egg> !choose zzz|notzzz
<Qboid> egg|zzz|egg: Your options are: zzz, notzzz. My choice: notzzz
<egg|zzz|egg> ;choose zzz|notzzz
<kmath_> egg|zzz|egg: zzz
<egg|zzz|egg> botsplit
<UmbralRaptor> egg|zzz|egg: zzznot
<soundnfury> egg|zzz|egg: I tossed a coin and got heads for zeds. Does that help?
* UmbralRaptor shoots the zeds in the head. Twice.
<egg|zzz|egg> z
<soundnfury> UmbralRaptor: stop filling my zeds' heads with lead! You'll make them dead!
<egg|zzz|egg> z
* UmbralRaptor *blam* *blam*
<soundnfury> !wpn
* Qboid gives soundnfury a venomous ruby
* soundnfury uses the ruby to build a venomous LASER, and aims it at UmbralRaptor
<UmbralRaptor> !wpn
* Qboid gives UmbralRaptor a stochastic Bucket O' Nitrogens™
<soundnfury> was that made in Krapotke's lab?
* UmbralRaptor pours the buck of nitrogens on the LASER and hopes something happens.
<soundnfury> I suppose, if it's stochastic, you don't really know whether anything will happen or not
<UmbralRaptor> !wpn -add:wpn wombat
<Qboid> UmbralRaptor: Weapon added!
<UmbralRaptor> !wpn -add:wpn quokka
<Qboid> UmbralRaptor: Weapon added!
<SilverFox> !wpn add walnut
* Qboid gives add walnut a projective lance
<soundnfury> WOMBAT?
<soundnfury> come on, that has to be an acronym
<SilverFox> !wpn -add:wpn walnut
<Qboid> SilverFox: Weapon added!
<soundnfury> !acr -add:WOMBAT Waste Of Money, Brains And Time
<Qboid> soundnfury: I added the explanation for this acronym.
<UmbralRaptor> Wiscoson Observatory Microwave Balloon Array Telescope?
<soundnfury> citation: jargon-1
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<GreeningGalaxy> PEBKAC?
<Qboid> GreeningGalaxy: [PEBKAC] => Problem exists between Keyboard and Chair
<GreeningGalaxy> Good
<GreeningGalaxy> I am caffeinated and tired and happy about getting those nRF chips working.
<GreeningGalaxy> (I just used a library, I still need to learn how to operate the SPI directly)