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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<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 UmbralRaptor
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<UmbralRaptor> YASD?
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<soundnfury> egg|zzz|egg: fyi I've concluded that my last sally last night was bogus, except possibly when u·v = 0
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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
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<UmbralRaptor> !wpn egg|work|egg
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<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
* Qboid gives UmbralRaptor a solid ☣
<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
<egg|work|egg> at least it renders though
<SnoopJeDi> It looks atrocious in KiTTY
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<UmbralRaptor> egg|work|egg: Chromebooks don't render BMP characters? ?
<egg|work|egg> UmbralRaptor: it does render it
<SnoopJeDi> Chromebooks are the most functional of all notebooks
<SnoopJeDi> No side effects
<egg|work|egg> UmbralRaptor: but it uses the same (colourful) glyph for emoji and text presentation
<egg|work|egg> SnoopJeDi: it's not bad actually
<SnoopJeDi> I'm completely out of touch, the Chromebook I recall is the one c.a. 2010 that was really awful
<egg|work|egg> I'm sort of annoyed at the lack of caps lock key tbh
<UmbralRaptor> …
<egg|work|egg> but other than that it really does the job
<SnoopJeDi> And I'm a complete thinkpad zealot so...
<egg|work|egg> my personal laptop is a thinkpad
<egg|work|egg> nubftw
<SnoopJeDi> I think if there was a modern equivalent of an x220 or even the x61, I'd own it
<egg|work|egg> carbon x1?
<SnoopJeDi> yea x1 is probably the closest thing, certainly to the x61
<egg|work|egg> that's the one I have right now
<SnoopJeDi> As it stands I have a T430s that meets my needs pretty nicely
<SnoopJeDi> I miss the old keyboard :(
<egg|work|egg> speaking of which I haven't heard from that Spitzer keyboard
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<UmbralRaptor> egg|zzz|egg: Check earth trailing orbits?
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<kmath> <eggleroy> @hikari_no_yume Cauchyism-Schwarzism
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<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn UmbralRaptor
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<egg|zzz|egg> <UmbralRaptor> … << ?
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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
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<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? >_>
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<bofh> https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C-2bVyTWAAQW_fQ.jpg need to find some way to use this in a presentation
* UmbralRaptor looks at the next 2 days.
* UmbralRaptor is renomalized.
<UmbralRaptor> bofh: I'd be mildly concerned as to the topic of that presentation.
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: hmm, BASIC wasn't my first language, VB6 was >_>
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: also I keep misreading NSFVoyager2‏ as NSFWVoyager2‏
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn UmbralRaptor
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<bofh> egg|zzz|egg: swear you are like the third person who's told me they misread it that way :P
<bofh> egg|zzz|egg: also QB->VB6->Perl->C was younger-me's language path
<bofh> (I kinda wound up picking up x86 asm a bit at both ends of that, first one was b/c DEBUG.EXE is wonderful)
<Ellied> "windows 10 pro is required to install anything not from the app store. Also, you can't change default applications anymore."
<bofh> https://twitter.com/bofh453/status/855213907736244225 still a bit unreasonably happy with this tweet (also it's very accurate)
<kmath> <bofh453> @whitequark https://t.co/QLWFPlsemw
<bofh> Ellied: *boggle*
<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
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<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
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<UmbralRaptor> !wpn egg
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<UmbralRaptor> *_*
<kmath> <KatsKitties> Even though it makes me sad that she's not going to spend her *entire* caturday with me https://t.co/OLjJ6za5iv
<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. >_<
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<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