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.
<MARACRaptor> >_<
<MARACRaptor> So, conference was probably more miss than hit (at selling myself)
<MARACRaptor> But at least that silly fitting code senpai and I worked on is seeing some use.
MARACRaptor is now known as UmbralRaptor
<GreeningGalaxy> heh
<UmbralRaptor> Also some cool things on galaxies.
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<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: galaxies \o/
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: any fitting of cats?
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn Iskierka
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn whitequark
<egg|zzz|egg> uuuh
* egg|zzz|egg pokes Qboid
* egg|zzz|egg pokes Thomas
<egg|zzz|egg> !seen egg
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn
* egg|zzz|egg pokes things with stick
<egg|zzz|egg> s/$/s
<Iskierka> egg|zzz|egg, I think cats are self-fitting (to boxes)
<Thomas> Uhm
<Thomas> Mono cant verify espers certificate?
* Thomas wat
<Thomas> No wait, it cant verify my bnc cert
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<Thomas> !wpn
<Thomas> !wpn
* Qboid gives Thomas a Darboux demi-cannon
<egg|zzz|egg> \o/
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn Thomas
* Qboid gives Thomas an ill-conditioned induction
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn Iskierka
* Qboid gives Iskierka a mass-driver Noetherian conifer with a goose attachment
<Thomas> Blame letsencrypt.. or me for using a cert that isnt autorenewed
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<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid gives UmbralRaptor a Teller-Ulam sturgeon
<UmbralRaptor> Super fish!
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid gives UmbralRaptor an atomic ellipse
<UmbralRaptor> !wpn egg|zzz|egg
* Qboid gives egg|zzz|egg a bow harmonic refractor
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn whitequark
* Qboid gives whitequark a diagonal purpose which vaguely resembles a reflector
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn GreeningGalaxy
* Qboid gives GreeningGalaxy a zonal fibre
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn Iskierka
* Qboid gives Iskierka a Bekenstein decagon with a death attachment
<GreeningGalaxy> !wpn egg|zzz|egg
* Qboid gives egg|zzz|egg a pink pig
<egg|zzz|egg> that sounds reasonable
<GreeningGalaxy> my friends in the D&D game found a Potion of Heroism, but everyone keeps calling it a "Potion of Heroin"
<egg|zzz|egg> GreeningGalaxy: how's the winged cat
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn GreeningGalaxy
* Qboid gives GreeningGalaxy a transitive coilgun-like 2N3904
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid gives UmbralRaptor a conducting threaded һοmοɡاурһ with a monoid attachment
<kmath> <scanlime> It's really satisfying when rearranging the shop yields a new fave spot for @TucoTheCat to chill. https://t.co/kffUIqFnnX
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn
* Qboid gives egg|zzz|egg a Колмогоров meganeuropsis
<egg|zzz|egg> whitequark: why E and Xi specifically btw?
<kmath> <roseperson> There's a cool organized way to help do that it's called taxes https://t.co/auLHtjA9Zl
<UmbralRaptor> GreeningGalaxy: I'm under the impression that "heroin" got its name because early users thought that made them feel heroic?
<whitequark> egg|zzz|egg: printer is bipolar
<whitequark> and I get easily irritated
<whitequark> (and in turn irritate everyone around)
<egg|zzz|egg> whitequark: so you're the Xi?
<whitequark> yup
<whitequark> what about it?
<egg|zzz|egg> whitequark: ?
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn -add:adj explosive
<Qboid> egg|zzz|egg: Adjective already added!
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn -add:adj irritating
<Qboid> egg|zzz|egg: Adjective added!
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn -add:adj oxidizing
<Qboid> egg|zzz|egg: Adjective added!
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn -add:adj flammable
<Qboid> egg|zzz|egg: Adjective added!
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn -add:adj toxic
<Qboid> egg|zzz|egg: Adjective added!
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn -add:adj harmful
<Qboid> egg|zzz|egg: Adjective added!
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn -add:adj corrosive
<Qboid> egg|zzz|egg: Adjective added!
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn -add:adj irritant
<Qboid> egg|zzz|egg: Adjective added!
<egg|zzz|egg> whitequark: also, TIL irritant and irritating both eggsist
<egg|zzz|egg> and irritant is a technical term in scottish law O_o
<UmbralRaptor> !wpn -add:adj inflammable
<Qboid> UmbralRaptor: Adjective added!
<UmbralRaptor> ^such an annoying word.
* egg|zzz|egg wonders whether whitequark is flammable
<whitequark> in fluorine, yes
<egg|zzz|egg> also whether Iskierka is oxidizing
<egg|zzz|egg> [context: Iskierka sets things on fire and might be a dragon]
<egg|zzz|egg> whitequark: are you hypergolic with chlorine trifluoride
<egg|zzz|egg> !u 0
<Qboid> U+0030 DIGIT ZERO (0)
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<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn ferram4
* Qboid gives ferram4 a holomorphic vertex with a woomera attachment
<GreeningGalaxy> ah, I just re-found this dreadful "USB-to-RS-232" "adapter" I got at Micro Center for some reason
<GreeningGalaxy> what it really is is a circuit board that you can plug into a USB port and use as a serial interface. It has a six-position 0.1" socket header that gives you serial with flow control at 5 or 3.3 volts. Not exactly RS-232 compatible.
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn GreeningGalaxy
* Qboid gives GreeningGalaxy a voltage-gated hull
<GreeningGalaxy> !wpn egg
* Qboid gives egg a subnormal quiet atom/observable hybrid
<whitequark> GreeningGalaxy: ueah people don't often understand what RS-232 is
<whitequark> best bit: laptop builtin RS-232 ports
<whitequark> which have ±5V signaling because capacitive inverters are easy but capacitive charge pumps are apparently too expensive to put there
<whitequark> you need like A WHOLE TWO MORE CAPACITORS
<GreeningGalaxy> this one isn't even ±5, it's 0-5
<whitequark> ]yes, I understood
<whitequark> TTL levels
<GreeningGalaxy> yeah
<GreeningGalaxy> I got that you understood, I was just saying that because most of the machines around here could probably make do with ±5.
<GreeningGalaxy> but not 0-5.
<whitequark> right.
<whitequark> but honestly I don't know when was the last time I wanted actual RS-232.
<whitequark> it would probably be an impediment really.
<GreeningGalaxy> we have a lot of old machines that use it in our department. They're a lot easier to get than comparable ones that have USB, and at least it's more common than GPIB
<GreeningGalaxy> on computers that is
<GreeningGalaxy> friggin everything has GPIB
<whitequark> cats with GPIB. plant pots with GPIB
<GreeningGalaxy> when you start undergrad physics, they install a GPIB port in the back of your neck
<GreeningGalaxy> They would just put one in your computer, but IT won't allow it.
<GreeningGalaxy> I would be a lot less annoyed at GPIB if the cables didn't cost like $90+
<GreeningGalaxy> there are enough pins on a Raspberry Pi GPIO to emulate it. It might be fun to try.
<whitequark> my scope uses GPIB over USB
<whitequark> it's kind of nightmarish
<whitequark> personally I'd make an adapter with a CP2102 and maybe a small FPGA
<whitequark> if you can fit it into a GP4 then it'll be extremely cheap
<GreeningGalaxy> for our porpoises, doing it with a Pi might be more valuable since you could automate data collection and even analysis from a single networked device strapped to the back of a machine.
<GreeningGalaxy> The connectors are stupidly expensive, but if we don't need a ton of replugs it seems like it would be easy enough to 3D-print something that would fit into the port and pin everything out
<egg|zzz|egg> <whitequark> cats with GPIB. <<< is that tuco?
<whitequark> lol
UmbralRaptor is now known as StochasticRaptor
<StochasticRaptor> Gah. A bunch of radiation is leaking into my office.
<StochasticRaptor> (Yes, it's from a nuclear reactor)
<egg|zzz|egg> StochasticRaptor: you can't deploy some sort of shielding?
<StochasticRaptor> The shielding is, wrote, damaged.
<egg|zzz|egg> ah :-\
<StochasticRaptor> s/wrote/er/
<Qboid> StochasticRaptor meant to say: The shielding is, er, damaged.
<StochasticRaptor> so much ☢ https://goo.gl/photos/JUin3XP1CzfE83kT8