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.
Snoozee is now known as Majiir
<soundnfury>
ok so I've had a geometric think and concluded that grad_u |u×v| must be u|v|/|u| (because |u×v| changes fastest if du is parallel to u, and the rate of change is |v|)
<soundnfury>
which I *think* gives a condition number of u²|v|/|u||u×v|, which is u²|v|/|u||u||v|sinθ, which is just 1/sinθ
<soundnfury>
which makes perfect sense because everything is nice and linear until the moment we divide by |u×v| in computing the condition number, which blows up if sinθ is small.
<soundnfury>
now I'm _really_ going to sleep this time I _swear_
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<e_14159>
All right then, see you in ten days.
<Ellied>
so guess who stayed up till midnight like a crazy person working on a doppler radar amplifier
<Ellied>
sure did succeed, though. The thing can pick me up from like 5 meters away, through walls.
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<egg|zzz|egg>
!wpn e_14159
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<egg|zzz|egg>
!wpn Ellied
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gives Ellied a pyro gazebo which vaguely resembles a symbol
<egg|zzz|egg>
!wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid
gives UmbralRaptor a memory
<egg|zzz|egg>
!wpn whitequark
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<kmath>
<whitequark> if you want to have fun: on a recent (ICH6+) Intel system with Linux, run: sudo setpci -s 00:1f.0 82.W=0:400
* UmbralRaptor
's desktop uses a PS/2 keyboard.
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<egg|work|egg>
UmbralRaptor: ... did you run the command
<UmbralRaptor>
egg|work|egg: I did not. Read the thread until I knew what would happen.
<egg|work|egg>
!wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid
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<UmbralRaptor>
!wpn egg|work|egg
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gives egg|work|egg a Аэрофлот fan
<egg|work|egg>
is it a turbofan
<UmbralRaptor>
Yes. Collect 2 more to win a Tu-154.
<UmbralRaptor>
…why are there 3 eggs?
<egg|work|egg>
egg!
<egg|phone|egg>
egg!
<egg|work|egg>
(the third one is sleeping)
<UmbralRaptor>
>_>
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<Thomas>
eggception
<Qboid>
Thomas: Sigma88 left a message for you in #Kopernicus [03.05.2017 00:02:18]: "turns out this is enough :) https://pastebin.com/NfmTbZmk no need to reload"
<egg|work|egg>
!wpn UmbralRaptor
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<egg|work|egg>
!u ☣
<Qboid>
U+2623 BIOHAZARD SIGN (☣)
* egg|work|egg
stabs the chromebook's font for not having a text presentation for that
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gives whitequark a laevorotatory microscope
<egg|zzz|egg>
<UmbralRaptor> … << ?
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<egg|zzz|egg>
!wpn UmbralRaptor
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<UmbralRaptor>
!wpn egg|zzz|egg
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<UmbralRaptor>
… was that a keyboard would lack a capslock.
<egg|zzz|egg>
UmbralRaptor: yeah the chromebooks have a search key instead; which might make sense except when I'm programming over ssh and using WHATEVER_MACRO
Thomas is now known as Thomas|AWAY
<UmbralRaptor>
hah
<egg|zzz|egg>
hmm, I'm vaguely tired, should I zzz or nomal
<UmbralRaptor>
coffee!
<egg|zzz|egg>
aaaaa
<UmbralRaptor>
Also, can you really be nomal outside of academia? >_>
<bofh>
Ellied: what, is MSFT trying to turn Windows into Android OS for Desktops?
<Ellied>
apparently. ._.
<Ellied>
I'm gradually realizing that I might need to hoard as many computers as I can within the next decade or so, because after that they all might be completely 100% locked down and modifying them in any way will be a felony
<bofh>
sigh. part of me wants to not deal with computers ever again, the other part of me knows that I'll only have to use skills at low-level reverse-engineering *more* often from now on, not less. -_-
<bofh>
granted, software-wise 95% of that today somehow winds up being "getting rid of fucking FlexLM"
<Ellied>
I still can't try to hack an Android device for more than half an hour without screaming
<egg|zzz|egg>
bofh: they've done it before with the surface though iirc, with one version that came earlier being that sort of weird store-based thing (which had the success it deserved). I guess they're having another go at it because it worked so well?
<egg|zzz|egg>
right, surface and surface 2 were store-only
<Ellied>
bofh: I just googled flexlm...what kind of monstrosity is this
<Ellied>
"Due to the way the digital rights management (DRM) works in FlexNet Publisher, FlexNet affects bootloaders; this makes FlexNet Publisher incompatible with drives encrypted with TrueCrypt[5][6] and renders Linux-based systems unable to boot.[7][8] The Truecrypt developers also state that "the issue is caused by inappropriate design of the third-party activation software."[9]"
<Ellied>
what to fuck
<bofh>
Oh, nobody uses FlexNet, mercifully.
<bofh>
FlexLM is the trash that literally every major software app uses.
<bofh>
I've had to crack it for uh
<bofh>
so the most recent ones were Maple 13 and TopSpin.
<Ellied>
ah
<bofh>
(this despite the fact that I actually have valid licenses for both! it is less of a pain in the ass to buy the software and then crack it than to do things the conventional way)
<Ellied>
gotta love drm lmao
<bofh>
other things I've seen using FlexLM: Xilinx's steaming heap of garbage (better known as ISE/Vivado/TireFire), various Autodesk crap, mercifully NO LONGER Intel Fortran compiler thank fuck, etc...
<bofh>
egg|zzz|egg: so like that's a surface-specific thing I thought
<bofh>
since I always assumed the surface was their answer to the ipad, which is apple store only
* UmbralRaptor
is starting to think that a good next notebook will be a hacked together pitop.
<Ellied>
alright, it's very slightly less heinous if it's just a surface thing. I was worried they were going to start forcibly pushing it to all desktops or something.
<Ellied>
UmbralRaptor: good choice. At least the mobo won't get EOLd on you!
<Ellied>
plus, you get GPIOs!
<Ellied>
\o/ GPIOs
<Ellied>
I still need to figure out what kind of screen I can use, but I really want to build a pitop.
<egg|zzz|egg>
bofh: yeah but they sort of dropped that with the surface 3, and there's the surface pro which is a normal computer
<egg|zzz|egg>
bofh: so that series puts the surface laptop in the line of the surface & surface 2
<bofh>
ahh
<bofh>
wtf
<egg|zzz|egg>
quite
<Ellied>
is that the one with the goofy hinge that makes look like an empty 3-ring binder when closed
<bofh>
Ellied: think I might do that after this X220 finally dies. also fun fact: X200 keyboards work with the X220+ perfectly fine
<egg|zzz|egg>
also sorry for the delay, was afk for unplanned digestive reasons
<bofh>
and have the added feature of being good instead of totally shite
<bofh>
(seriously did some supreme overlord decide that all computers have to come w/awful keyboards by default now?)
* egg|zzz|egg
is rather happy with his x1 carbon, but tbh finds that all laptop keyboards suck
<egg|zzz|egg>
but then again I'm used to mechanical keyboards...
<Ellied>
my toughbook's keyboard is quite agreeable. It's got better travel than most island-style ones, it's backlit, and it isn't flimsy
<egg|zzz|egg>
<Ellied> what to fuck <<< also I wonder whether that's a typo, if I'm just unfamiliar with the fine details of english swearing, if it's a question
<Ellied>
egg|zzz|egg: it's an obscure reference to the "what to heck" micromeme
<Ellied>
which is terrible but catchy I guess
* egg|zzz|egg
stabs digestive issues
<Ellied>
the KDE Slimbook looks interesting but it's sort of out of my price range for now
<egg|zzz|egg>
The Egg retches.
<Ellied>
oh yeah, I keep forgetting the main reason I haven't looked more into pitop building: the Pi has no sleep states. >_<
<Ellied>
kind of unfortunate for a laptop.
<Ellied>
Orange Pi might be a good bet for that, I hear the Allwinner H3 chips can sleep.
<Ellied>
you might also get it to hibernate, not sure
<kmath>
<planetlabs> Dove #cubesats deploy into Low Earth Orbit from the @Space_Station. https://t.co/zXFY88kTpG
<egg|cell|egg>
!Wpn UmbralRaptor
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<UmbralRaptor>
Yay?
* UmbralRaptor
needs to finish these slides. >_<
<soundnfury>
!wpn egg|cell|egg
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<soundnfury>
!wpn -add:wpn parsnip
<Qboid>
soundnfury: Weapon added!
<UmbralRaptor>
And study for 2 tests friday. And do something about the surprise PhD opportunity. And catch up on grading. And get some research in there. x_x