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.
<UmbralRaptor>
So I was looking for some atmospheric transmission models (either trivially implementable, or codes I could plug into my surveys).
<UmbralRaptor>
I found an initially promising paper on NTRS.
<UmbralRaptor>
Which includes the source code. As 45 pages of FORTRAN. With a note that this is the UNIX version, but the VMS one is not substantially different.
<UmbralRaptor>
It needs some additional codes and tables though.
<UmbralRaptor>
Not sure if all are included.
<UmbralRaptor>
!wpn -add:adj fractal
<Qboid>
UmbralRaptor: Adjective added!
<UmbralRaptor>
!wpn -add:wpn fractal
<Qboid>
UmbralRaptor: Weapon added!
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<GreeningGalaxy>
whew. FINALLY got an IRC server up and running, again.
<GreeningGalaxy>
doing that is always like pulling teeth
<GreeningGalaxy>
print("surprise! you can't do that.") # irc server in one line
<UmbralRaptor>
meep
<whitequark>
Isiinvent?
<whitequark>
Iskierka: invent ?
<whitequark>
we already have beta emitter batteries
<whitequark>
used in pacemakers (but not anymore, I think)
* UmbralRaptor
is going to assumes that ISIINVENT is some one of those bizarrely huge FORTRAN codes.
<whitequark>
tab complete failure
<GreeningGalaxy>
christ, why are IRC server developers so hell-bent on keeping opers from having control over channels
<GreeningGalaxy>
there's a mode in charybdis to allow that, but it can't be set automatically and magically unsets itself after a preset time, apparently
<GreeningGalaxy>
(the aforementioned behavior does not appear to be configurable)
<whitequark>
i am pretty sure every feature in every piece of non-cloud software is configurable.
<whitequark>
just, some of them are harder to configure
<GreeningGalaxy>
yeah, I'm a little worried it's hardcoded though. which is not as bad as it would be in a closed-source piece of software, but it's annoying.
<whitequark>
the configuration is the source code, sometimes :p
<GreeningGalaxy>
fuck, it is hardcoded. session_p->deadline = rb_current_time() + 1800; those bastards
<GreeningGalaxy>
Can't decide if I could be bothered to hack it out and recompile.
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<egg>
!wpn whitequark
* Qboid
gives whitequark a floating point falcon
<egg>
!wpn GreeningGalaxy
* Qboid
gives GreeningGalaxy a guillotine
<bofh_>
whitequark: beta emitters? you mean alpha. Pu-238 was the radioisotope used (surprise)
<bofh_>
whitequark: prolly confusing them w/Siberian lighthouses, which used Sr-90 RTGs instead
<bofh_>
05:00:45 <@GreeningGalaxy> fuck, it is hardcoded. session_p->deadline = rb_current_time() + 1800; those bastards
<bofh_>
whitequark: oh cool. so there were pacemakers off both, then.
<bofh_>
(did not know that, thanks!)
<bofh_>
and yeah, that sounds like in theory it would be much more efficient than using Seebeck Effect thermocouples
<bofh_>
like for instance the MHW-RTGs on the Voyagers are about 6.5% efficient and we haven't done *much* better than that since b/c turns out thermoelectric materials are hard.
<GreeningGalaxy>
bofh_: because ircd people are really, really sure that opers shouldn't override channels and want to force that mode of operation on everyone who uses their software.
<GreeningGalaxy>
nevermind if you're running a really tiny server where it doesn't even make sense for that separation to exist.
<whitequark>
override?
<GreeningGalaxy>
as in, exert channel operator powers over all channels
<GreeningGalaxy>
that's what umode +p in charybdis does, gives you implicit channel ops in all channels. You have to load a nonstandard module to enable it.
<GreeningGalaxy>
er, s/nonstandard/optional, disabled by default/
<GreeningGalaxy>
atheme services have a somewhat similar functionality built into ChanServ, FFLAGS, which can be used to give ops to yourself, but it's not as complete as +p
<GreeningGalaxy>
(that is, existing ops can still take it from you, so you'd have to deop them if you were cleaning up in a really whacked out channel)
<GreeningGalaxy>
+p also makes you kickproof, I believe.
<GreeningGalaxy>
if you ask me, implicit ops and kickproofing should be standard in every ircd for network-wide opers. Not doing that seems about as silly as having a halfop channel mode.
<egg>
!wpn bofh_
* Qboid
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<GreeningGalaxy>
I kind of wonder if it might be easier to write my own server/client applications for my use case. I don't need any of the provisions for large networks that ircds have, I basically just want to have a single-channel server that people can connect to and talk.
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<GreeningGalaxy>
okay, not easier, better. obviously it wouldn't be easier or less time-consuming.
<GreeningGalaxy>
!wpn Iskierka
* Qboid
gives Iskierka a brushless manifold with a vertical (with ground plane) attachment