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> "I'm afraid, Dave."
<UmbralRaptor> !
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<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_> why the fuck would anyone do that
<bofh_> >_>
<whitequark> bofh_: no, beta. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betavoltaics
<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.
<bofh_> whitequark: also I was thinking of http://www.lanl.gov/orgs/nmt/nmtdo/AQarchive/05spring/heart.html
<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 gives bofh_ an inverted dessicated cylinder
<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
<egg> TGAS?
<Qboid> egg: [TGAS] => Tycho-Gaia Astrometric Solution
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* egg pokes UmbralRaptor with a cat
<SnoopJeDi> Dark matter distinguished lecture today! \o/
* UmbralRaptor meows at egg
<SnoopJeDi> GreeningGalaxy, another HackChat possibly up your alley: https://hackaday.io/event/21084-open-source-chip-design-hack-chat
<kmath> YouTube - Cat mesmerized by optical illusion
<UmbralRaptor> >_>
<Iskierka> ... the moto g5 doesn't come with the battery installed o.O
<Iskierka> which seems odd
<egg> UmbralRaptor: also I shared some catpics with you, not sure if you saw them
<UmbralRaptor> egg: I don't think so.
<UmbralRaptor> Ah, there.
<UmbralRaptor> Yeah, that does look sorta like ANBOcat
<egg> !u ›
<Qboid> U+203A SINGLE RIGHT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK (›)
<egg> Iskierka: btw, this 404s http://iskie.uk.to/favicon.ico
<Iskierka> I don't even know what that should be
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<egg> !wpn ferram4
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<UmbralRaptor> !wpn ferram4
* Qboid gives ferram4 an aluminium circle-like Bucket O' Nitrogens™
<UmbralRaptor> !wpn -add:adj partial
<Qboid> UmbralRaptor: Adjective added!
<UmbralRaptor> !wpn -add:adj complete
<Qboid> UmbralRaptor: Adjective already added!
<UmbralRaptor> !wpn -add:adj commuting
<Qboid> UmbralRaptor: Adjective added!
<egg> !wpn -add:wpn set
<Qboid> egg: Weapon added!
<egg> "When presented with an eight-legged pig, the model generates a similar pig with only four legs."
<egg> (pigbus?)
<UmbralRaptor> spiderpig?
<egg> UmbralRaptor: that article also has cats though
<egg> OGS?
<egg> !acr -add:OGS Optical Ground Station
<Qboid> egg: I added the explanation for this acronym.
egg is now known as egg|nomz|egg
* UmbralRaptor stabs things.
* UmbralRaptor is going to randomly guess that optical/NUV/NIR transparency for 2 airmasses is 0.8
<UmbralRaptor> This is a bad guess.
<GreeningGalaxy> !wpn
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<UmbralRaptor> … the interview just compared grad students with microbes on Europa/Enceladus. =\
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* UmbralRaptor purrs?
<egg> UmbralRaptor: what interview?
<UmbralRaptor> The NASA ocean worlds one
<egg> UmbralRaptor: I don't think micro-organisms on those moons would be useable as cheap labour though
<egg> !wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid gives UmbralRaptor a paramagnetic halberd
<UmbralRaptor> Now with less iron!
<egg> !wpn GreeningGalaxy
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<egg> !wpn Iskierka
* Qboid gives Iskierka a smooth lemma
* egg pets the lemma
<egg> the lemma is not, in fact, a llama
<UmbralRaptor> !wpn egg
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<UmbralRaptor> Poster! https://go.nasa.gov/2obyzDr
<egg> !wpn -add:wpn lobster
<Qboid> egg: Weapon added!
<egg> !wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid gives UmbralRaptor an antidisambiguated Bucket O' Nitrogens™
egg is now known as egg|zzz|egg
<UmbralRaptor> !wpn
* Qboid gives UmbralRaptor an unaligned heptagon
<soundnfury> !wpn
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* soundnfury gives it to Pachelbel to make cellists sad with
<kmath> <sbagley> RT @gautampremnath: Cc: @LeavingHigherEd https://t.co/ahvCADkXR5
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: my laptop appears to correctly display all of AΑA?אܐ?አⲀ??
<egg|zzz|egg> Windows 10 has nice unicode support
<soundnfury> !wpn egg|zzz|egg
* Qboid gives egg|zzz|egg a Phoenician bundle
<egg|zzz|egg> !u ?
<Qboid> U+10900 PHOENICIAN LETTER ALF (?)
<soundnfury> that's no good, it's only 'alf a letter!
* UmbralRaptor stares at tofu https://goo.gl/photos/CRHHv2KSkRNpjcfj6
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