UmbralRaptor changed the topic of #kspacademia to: https://gist.github.com/pdn4kd/164b9b85435d87afbec0c3a7e69d3e6d | Dogs are cats. Spiders are cat interferometers. | Космизм сегодня! | Document well, for tomorrow you may get mauled by a ネコバス. | <UmbralRaptor> … one of the other grad students just compared me to nomal O_o | <ferram4> I shall beat my problems to death with an engineer.
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<MARACRaptor> RFC 1149, or 2549?
* MARACRaptor stabs things.
* MARACRaptor figured out how to get custom font colors in LaTeX… 8 hours after giving up and printing out the poster.
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<egg|zzz|egg> MARAC?
<Qboid> egg|zzz|egg: [MARAC] => Mid American Regional Astrophysics Conference
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn bofh_
* Qboid gives bofh_ a francium Brillouin check
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn e_14159
* Qboid gives e_14159 an expanded license
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn GreeningGalaxy
* Qboid gives GreeningGalaxy a zeta equivalency
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn Iskierka
* Qboid gives Iskierka a titanium periwinkle
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn MARACRaptor
* Qboid gives MARACRaptor a Hamilton radioactive denormal
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn whitequark
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<egg|zzz|egg> !seen whitequark
<Qboid> egg|zzz|egg: I last saw whitequark on [05.04.2017 15:46:14] in #kspacademia saying: "um"
<whitequark> um
<egg|zzz|egg> μm
<whitequark> I read this but !wpn kinda makes it impossible to see what of the backlog I *actually* missed
<whitequark> I should set up something in irssi
<whitequark> hilightwnd
<egg|zzz|egg> wnd?
<egg|zzz|egg> whitequark: you can use the Thomas-whitequark logs: https://logs.tmsp.io/kspacademia/search?q=whitequark
<egg|zzz|egg> also, surprisingly, a chromebook is quite nice for a work laptop
<egg|zzz|egg> (I dislike touchpads though, but aside from that it does the job very well)
<egg|zzz|egg> unrelated: I keep building up a static charge wrt my laptop when I'm at my desk (using my desktop) at work
<egg|zzz|egg> also possibly wrt my desktop monitors? but laptop is the most annoying one
<whitequark> the laptop is grounded i guess?
<egg|zzz|egg> whitequark: it's charging via USB-c, and it's one of the hp chromebooks, metal case
<egg|zzz|egg> so if it's half-decently done I'd assume grounding
<egg|zzz|egg> whitequark: I'm not grounded, the floor is carpet, and the chair is some synthetic material
<egg|zzz|egg> whitequark: I could wear an antistatic strap but that sounds annoying :-p
<e_14159> egg|zzz|egg: Different shoes?
<egg|zzz|egg> e_14159: well even if I somehow had metal soles, the floor isn't a conductor I think
<e_14159> Not to ground yourself, but to avoid building up a static charge.
<egg|zzz|egg> hm
<egg|zzz|egg> so the shoes I'm using *do* have synthetic soles
<egg|zzz|egg> problem is, the reason I use those is that they withstand wet pavement
<egg|zzz|egg> leather soles less so
<whitequark> egg|zzz|egg: raise humidity
<whitequark> if you dont wanna wear a strap
<whitequark> or change materials
<egg|zzz|egg> whitequark: I don't think I'm in control of humidity in the google offices :-p
<egg|zzz|egg> I *am* next to the switch for the blinds on the nearest window
<egg|zzz|egg> eggrobin, master of the blinds :-p
<egg|zzz|egg> whitequark: I guess I could try grounding my desktop mouse and keyboard, so that I'm grounded often enough
<whitequark> mhm
<whitequark> sounds annoying
<egg|zzz|egg> yeah
<egg|zzz|egg> oh btw, there's a machining/3d printing/whatever lab here
<egg|zzz|egg> which you can also use for personal use if you want (have to go through some training to get access to it, other than that the rule is just don't take the tools away)
<egg|zzz|egg> this sounds potentially fun (or useful I guess?)
<whitequark> yeah the machining part especially
* egg|zzz|egg never done any of that, sounds eggsciting
<egg|zzz|egg> "on at elephant" welp found a typo too
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<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn -add:wpn elephant
<Qboid> egg|zzz|egg: Weapon added!
<kmath> <whitequark> @rz2k https://t.co/LJh8qdl8Le
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<e_14159> egg|zzz|egg: Do you have a test for gravity of four elephants standing on a turtle?
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<MARACRaptor> That does not sound solvable by spherical harmonics
<e_14159> MARACRaptor: What if we assume spherical elephants on a frictionless turtle?
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<egg|zzz|egg> MARACRaptor: hmm, well you just need a lot of them
<egg|zzz|egg> MARACRaptor: though the question is rather, how close to the centre of gravity of an elephant can you get
<egg|zzz|egg> obviously if you can be at the centre bad things happen
* egg|zzz|egg gives whitequark a strongly-typed botsnack https://twitter.com/whitequark/status/850723881262493697
<kmath> <whitequark> @elwoz so, yeah, it goes against some of the established practice, because that practice is harmful to writing robust code.
<egg|zzz|egg> ow, we don't have bots that react to botsnack anymore
<whitequark> egg|zzz|egg: huh?
<egg|zzz|egg> whitequark: I agree, and we used to have bots to whom we could give botsnacks
<egg|zzz|egg> whitequark: but now they're all dead
<egg|zzz|egg> whitequark: you're eggsplosive!
<egg|zzz|egg> whitequark: aren't these pictograms deprecated in favour of the GHS though?
<whitequark> I thiiiiink those are a part of GHS still, used for transport
<whitequark> but honestly the iconography is way too awesome to ever give it up, even if the standards bodies do
<egg|zzz|egg> whitequark: hmm, I think you're semi-right: the background colour is the same on the transport pictogram (and the actual drawing remains the same as your t-shirt in all cases), but the pictogram has the ghs style square-sitting-on-a-corner https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/ADR_1.svg/1024px-ADR_1.svg.png
<egg|zzz|egg> whitequark: so I guess if you lean sideways you look like a GHS transport pictogram :-p
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<egg|zzz|egg> whitequark: also, I sort of want a version of RealFuels that shows all the GHS pictograms for the unholy horrors you put in your tanks & engines :-p
<whitequark> hahaha
<whitequark> also like... launchpad explosions that are realistic
<whitequark> nicked your saturn 5? welp guess you like rebuilding the entire KSC from scratch
<egg|zzz|egg> whitequark: yup; otoh, it would be nice if putting something heavy on the pad didn't blow it up
<egg|zzz|egg> whitequark: KSP doesn't distinguish structural failures from eggsplosions
<egg|zzz|egg> hmm maybe it sort of does lately? but not well
<egg|zzz|egg> whitequark: also something modeling the effects on the pads of the more exotic propellants I guess >_>
<e_14159> whitequark: OTOH, who'd build their tracking station 50 metres from the launch pad?
<whitequark> lol yeah
<bofh_> LOL
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<egg|afk|egg> !wpn
* Qboid gives egg|afk|egg a simple asm.js which strongly resembles a decagon
<egg|afk|egg> aaah
<egg|afk|egg> Iskierka: dinosaurs \o/
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<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn whitequark
* Qboid gives whitequark a vicious triangulation
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn Iskierka
* Qboid gives Iskierka a beta keyboard
<egg|zzz|egg> !Wpn MARACRaptor
* Qboid gives MARACRaptor a Trojan halberd
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn GreeningGalaxy
* Qboid gives GreeningGalaxy a monopole Qboid with a pike attachment
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn bofh_
* Qboid gives bofh_ a hypothetical saker
<egg|zzz|egg> !WPN whomever
* Qboid gives whomever a lambda coilgun
<whitequark> !wph egg|zzz|egg
<whitequark> !wpn egg|zzz|egg
* Qboid gives egg|zzz|egg a cotangent pilum with a mechanism attachment
<egg|zzz|egg> whitequark: sadly н is not a substitute for n in Qboid commands
<egg|zzz|egg> and h even less so
<egg|zzz|egg> whitequark: also, IERS \o/ \o/ \o/\
<egg|zzz|egg> IERS?
<Qboid> egg|zzz|egg: [IERS] => International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service
<egg|zzz|egg> whitequark: and leap seconds *do* make sense, using UTC when you want a uniform timescale is what doesn't >_>
* egg|zzz|egg slaps alt_kia with TAI/TT/TDB/TCG/TCB
<egg|zzz|egg> whitequark: for the alternative to leap seconds, see pre-1972 UTC, and weep
* egg|zzz|egg gives whitequark a polar elephant
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn -add:adj polar
<Qboid> egg|zzz|egg: Adjective added!
<whitequark> !wpn -add:adj nonpolar
<Qboid> whitequark: Adjective added!
<whitequark> !wpn -add:wpn metal
<Qboid> whitequark: Weapon added!
<whitequark> !wpn -add:wpn semimetal
<Qboid> whitequark: Weapon added!
<whitequark> !wpn -add:wpn semiconductor
<Qboid> whitequark: Weapon added!
<whitequark> !wpn -add:wpn insulator
<Qboid> whitequark: Weapon added!
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn -add:adj metallic
<Qboid> egg|zzz|egg: Adjective already added!
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn -add:adj insulating
<Qboid> egg|zzz|egg: Adjective already added!
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn whitequark
* Qboid gives whitequark a molybdenum operator
<egg|zzz|egg> MARACRaptor: there's a cat in my street which looks very much like ANBOcat
<egg|zzz|egg> MARACRaptor: I suspect that's actually ANBOcat getting delocalized from normandy via quantum cat magic when nobody's looking at it
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh_: whitequark: assuming that's how cats work, you're probably the most competent when it comes to quantum cat magic here
<bofh_> egg|zzz|egg: entanglement swapping
<SnoopJeDi> Did I post a link in here to a science rant/blog/essay about how our tools/practices aren't always the best for scientific goals? Been trying to dig this article back up...
<bofh_> egg|zzz|egg: you have a Bell state of a local cat here and some other local cat in Normandy, and someone measured NormandyBellCat and ANBOcat in the Bell basis
<egg|zzz|egg> whitequark: https://twitter.com/whitequark/status/850804676664709124 << /me comes across this thread; /me might be coming back from a meal at the restaurant with 7 glasses of wine >_>
<kmath> <whitequark> @mnxmnkmnd are you feeling great tzetze
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<egg|zzz|egg> bofh_: :D
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn bofh_
* Qboid gives bofh_ a harmless function which vaguely resembles an egg|egg|egg
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn -add:adj entangled
<Qboid> egg|zzz|egg: Adjective added!
<egg|zzz|egg> wait, <egg|egg|egg>? that makes no bloody sense!
<egg|zzz|egg> who added that
<egg|zzz|egg> we need wpn -blame
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