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<egg>
UmbralRaptor: btw, today in "nobody listens to the CGPM and it's bad actually", Google reports to me the number of results with . as thousands sep
<egg>
because that's the tradition here, like , is in the US
<egg>
well maybe not in switzerland even, here ' is quite frequent esp with money
<egg>
. is very much still a thing people do in france
<egg>
UmbralRaptor: but on a page of english results with an english ui, this seems like a bad idea...
<egg>
UmbralRaptor: thin space! or ', I like '
<egg>
it's unambiguous
<egg>
with money, where confusion is quite disincentivized, they use that here
<egg|zzz|egg>
bofh: rotating the stroke counts as weird handwriting :-p
<bofh>
also cyrillic borrowed both И and І for /i/ (the latter obviously from iota), then the latter got junked in a literary reform
<bofh>
they are, however, still separate phonemes in Ukrainian iirc
<egg|zzz|egg>
!u ΝΗНИ
<Qboid>
U+039D GREEK CAPITAL LETTER NU (Ν)
<Qboid>
U+0397 GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ETA (Η)
<Qboid>
U+041D CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER EN (Н)
<Qboid>
U+0418 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER I (И)
<egg|zzz|egg>
bofh: the κατάφρακτοι who say ΝΗ! also the varangians who say НИ
<egg|zzz|egg>
!wpn Norgg
* Qboid
gives Norgg a positive charm cylinder
<Norgg>
!wpn egg
* Qboid
gives egg a nukular flail
<egg|zzz|egg>
bofh: I guess part of the eggsplanation may be that Greek -> Latin was when it all was uppercase, whereas Greek -> Cyrillic was with manuscripts full of lowercase; the latter may more easily have its letters deformed (stroke rotation sounds entirely likely with quick handwritten stuff)
<bofh>
egg|zzz|egg: LOL
<egg|zzz|egg>
bofh: ?
<bofh>
14:04:43 <@egg|zzz|egg> bofh: the κατάφρακτοι who say ΝΗ! also the varangians who say НИ
<egg|zzz|egg>
ah :D
<egg|zzz|egg>
bofh: I guess I should say the Варягъ or the Варѧгъ who say НИ
<egg|zzz|egg>
!u ѧ
<Qboid>
U+0467 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER LITTLE YUS (ѧ)
<bofh>
yeah I was in the middle of typing that out (see twitter)
<egg|zzz|egg>
bofh: you mentioned @egg :-p
<bofh>
Варѧги is actually what you want, since it's the nominative plural
<bofh>
fuck
<bofh>
oh on top of that
<bofh>
I don't care then :P (also lol twitter is a trashfire)
<bofh>
I thought @eggleroy at the end got shortened b/c sometimes twitter "helpfully" autocompletes usernames. badly.
<bofh>
egg|zzz|egg: I like how that joke took two pararaphs to explain to someone who doesn't know greek/cyrillic script and a bit of russian history
<egg|zzz|egg>
bofh: :D
<egg|zzz|egg>
bofh: well more byzantine history
<egg|zzz|egg>
though pretty much at their intersection
<egg|zzz|egg>
bofh: aw, the 2-paragraph explanation isn't on twitter :-p
<egg|zzz|egg>
bofh: so that ѧ stands for a nasal; amusingly in french we'd pronounce varangien with a nasal too (well no, two, one at the end too)
<egg|zzz|egg>
bofh: ... also "SMALL LETTER LITTLE" >_>
<egg|zzz|egg>
not quite as odd as "CAPITAL LETTER SMALL CAPITAL"
<GreeningGalaxy>
Thomas: was that over the Bacon Labs thing that wasn't really his work, or something else?
<Thomas>
He had about 10 of theese threads
<Thomas>
5 where he claimed he made Kopernicus and Planet Factory, and 5 where he just took over part mods and added junk :P
<UmbralRaptor>
That's a lot of $$$ on small scopes I think.
<GreeningGalaxy>
Wow, I missed that.
<egg>
UmbralRaptor: yeah that seems to be a lot of similar scopes too
<egg>
like, why would you have so many cats in the same range
<egg>
UmbralRaptor: .... is he building a spider
<Thomas>
He once said something like: "I brought back Planet Factory using Kopernicus (search for Planet Factory Revived). I assume its ok for me to drop the "Revived" Label?" to the creator of Planet Factory
<egg>
UmbralRaptor: spiders are cat interferometers, field cats have spiders...
<UmbralRaptor>
Only 2 of them are cats.
<GreeningGalaxy>
Thomas: christ, and did he actually do any work at all on that, or just take credit for someone else's?
<egg>
UmbralRaptor: ... so he may be making a dog
<UmbralRaptor>
I think the 6" is a newt, an the 102 ㎜ is a refractor
<Thomas>
GreeningGalaxy: He made some more or less working configs
<Thomas>
Without a real idea how things work
<UmbralRaptor>
But, like, he could have gotten an 8" dob for as much as either 4"
<UmbralRaptor>
It looks like one can find the Mak cheap.
<Thomas>
GreeningGalaxy: Another thing I saw from him was asking the users to keep negative critism out of his thread
<GreeningGalaxy>
oh yes, I remember that one
<UmbralRaptor>
well, if used. New is again 3-5 hectodollars.
<egg>
UmbralRaptor: speaking of which, perhaps I should get a cat...
<UmbralRaptor>
You should definitely get a cat. Not sure if I'd suggest a cat or a dob to go with the finder scope.
<egg>
UmbralRaptor: now I'm confused by the above sentence
<UmbralRaptor>
You should definitely get a ?. I'm less certain on the best ? choice.
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<UmbralRaptor>
!wpn ferram4
* Qboid
gives ferram4 a semisimple pulse generator
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<egg>
UmbralRaptor: I should probably get an apartment of my own if I want to get a fuzzy binocular cat
<egg>
UmbralRaptor: or a half-apartment in a Tits building
<egg>
"A part of the data defining a building Δ is a Coxeter group W, which determines a highly symmetrical simplicial complex Σ = Σ(W,S), called the Coxeter complex. A building Δ is glued together from multiple copies of Σ, called its apartments, in a certain regular fashion."
<egg>
UmbralRaptor: "If a group G of automorphisms
<egg>
of X acts strongly transitively on the spherical building at infinity ∂X, then the G-stabilizer of
<egg>
every affine apartment in X contains all reflections along thick walls."
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<UmbralRaptor>
That must look weird. >_>
<egg>
UmbralRaptor: "wall M in a euclidean building X is called thick if it can be written as the intersection of three apartments. We call a point p ∈ X thick if every wall passing through p is thick. Now we can make the statement about the Weyl group being too big more precise:"
<egg>
"Unfortunately, it seems that there is no reasonable way to endow a masure with a CAT(0)-metric."
<egg>
UmbralRaptor: 'So, the "building" we can construct has bad
<egg>
properties, therefore, we call it an hovel (in french "masure")'
<egg>
UmbralRaptor: see those apartments have chambers