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<egg> Iskierka: the foot wounds seem to have been adequately handled, they're conscious and can stand now
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<egg> UmbralRaptor: and now the wounded speardwarf is back to strolling the halls while reading about the relation between the solar and lunar year
* soundnfury gives egg an easter
<soundnfury> it's made of chocolate, but it's hollow.
* UmbralRaptor gives soundnfury a blood moon.
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<UmbralRaptor> Oh, hey. I seem to have been twitter-followed by a crank.
<Ellied> a crank?
<UmbralRaptor> Not a conspiratorial one. Just a bit spammy and trying to sell their book on a theory of everything.
<Ellied> I'm constantly being followed by these dubious fitness accounts
<Ellied> and also sexbait bots
<UmbralRaptor> website:http://www.notjustanothertheory.com/ and "official" twitter: https://twitter.com/sharonhalonen52/
<UmbralRaptor> I try to block the most obvious spammy brands and bots.
<SnoopJeDi> I liked a few powerlifting things on instagram and *jeez* the fitness accounts
<UmbralRaptor> Well, usually. The Carl Sagan quoting bot can live.
<SnoopJeDi> I think the "follow-back" pattern is just so assumed on their part
<UmbralRaptor> Also, it's weird when I dunk on $thing, and promptly get a like or follow from some account associated with $thing
<Ellied> yeaaah
<SnoopJeDi> oh man and the data science ones ugh
<UmbralRaptor> Okay, your search bot needs to be a bit smarter.
<SnoopJeDi> Just...egh. Please with the young entrepreneur crap already
<Ellied> yeah I've seen a good few of those
<SnoopJeDi> #bigdata #machinelearning ffs
<UmbralRaptor> PHAT counts as big data, right?
<SnoopJeDi> All I did was mention @d3_js!
<Ellied> "Do the thing with Big Data™ using our product, $RAND_DICTIONARY_WORD! It's exactly what you need for your company!"
* UmbralRaptor can only imagine how silly talking about JS gets.
<SnoopJeDi> Far sillier than JS itself
* SnoopJeDi gestures to Webpack
<UmbralRaptor> $RAND_DICTIONARY_WORD is built on the $word.js framework, making it highly performant.
<UmbralRaptor> ...wait, "performant" is more of an academia word.
* UmbralRaptor has been using some form of adblock for, uh, 13 years I think. Maybe 14?
<Ellied> SnoopJeDi: idk if you saw me mention it yesterday, but I've been developing a 'new' (new as in "I can't find anything by googling of someone doing this before") low-cost light detector. The results so far have been extremely promising.
<SnoopJeDi> Ooh, I did not
<SnoopJeDi> For what context, Ellied?
<Ellied> spectrometry
<UmbralRaptor> "Any physicist that would be explaining his or her new theory would have a multitude of diagrams and pages of equations explaining every step of their theory. But this complete theory is based on the newer more popular version of Occam's razor: "That the simplest possible explanation for natural phenomena is usually right." So everything that needs to be explained will be explained by the use of
<UmbralRaptor> the simplest of explanations. This at the same time makes this theory understandable to almost everyone."
<UmbralRaptor> High resolution spectrographs soon?
<Ellied> Instead of just measuring the current through a photodiode directly with a classic transimpedance amplifier, my design uses the photodiode to charge a very small capacitor (actually the junction of a transistor) and then uses a JFET-input comparator to tell when it charges to a certain level and reset it (by briefly turning on the transistor) which generates a stream of pulses of frequency
<Ellied> proportional to intensity.
<Ellied> I've been calling it "I Can't Believe It's Not SiPM"
<Ellied> so far I've managed to demonstrate very decent sensitivity (comparable to or better than the typical TIA arrangement) and extreme dynamic range (almost total darkness all the way up to normal room light)
<Ellied> the circuit is way too simple for me to be the first to invent it I think, but I'm still proud of it.
<Ellied> UmbralRaptor: high-res spectrographs are forthcoming whenever someone gets around to slapping a PMT on it and using my counter board; the instrument's maximum resolution should be substantial. One of the grad students and I tried it with a laser and very small slit spacing, and we got very close to the full 1 picometer the drive controller advertises (harmonic peaks from a He-Ne laser)
<Ellied> we tried it with one of my older detectors though, so we needed pretty large intensity
<Ellied> I've mostly just been using the machine as a testbed for my cheap detectors. There's not really any point in using a $5 detector on a $50k machine in the longrun anyway, hah
<UmbralRaptor> !
<Ellied> My personal goal is to eventually build a cheap but decent spectrometer. Current hope is to manage 1-nm resolution across the visible range for under $50 in total materials.
<Ellied> well, $50 not counting the raspberry pi, haha
<Ellied> My uni has a bunch of those ocean optics CCD spectrometers that connect to Logger Pro via USB and cost like at least $1k
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn Ellied
* Qboid gives Ellied a ⅝λ sonic screwdriver
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid gives UmbralRaptor an ill-conditioned spiral cut parabolol
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn whitequark
* Qboid gives whitequark a dynamorphism
<UmbralRaptor> !wpn Ellied
* Qboid gives Ellied a slow ſtabber
<UmbralRaptor> !wpn egg
* Qboid gives egg a sulfur hug
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid gives UmbralRaptor a fizzix crystal with a ☣ attachment
* UmbralRaptor would complain about being tab-jacked, but tabbing after one letter is just asking for trouble.
<UmbralRaptor> !wpn -add:adj overclocked
<Qboid> UmbralRaptor: Adjective added!
<UmbralRaptor> !wpn -add:adj underclocked
<Qboid> UmbralRaptor: Adjective added!
<UmbralRaptor> !wpn -add:adj oscillating
<Qboid> UmbralRaptor: Adjective added!
<UmbralRaptor> !wpn -add:adj osculating
<Qboid> UmbralRaptor: Adjective already added!
<egg|zzz|egg> !seen Norgg
<Qboid> egg|zzz|egg: I haven't seen the user Norgg yet.
<egg|zzz|egg> !bot Norgg
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: live birb is dark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLOQjuy2Dyg
<kmath_> YouTube - Bella Hummingbird Live Stream
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn whitequark
* Qboid gives whitequark a hull
<egg|zzz|egg> !tell NathanKell http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/139335-ksp-113-rss-datetime-formatter-v10/&page=2#comment-2857395 << when using principia, the start of the game is defined as 1951-01-01T00:00:00 Terrestrial Time (TT) [1]. This is what the RSSTimeFormatter uses [2], which makes sense since it shows TT when using Principia [3]. Now if you are interested in UT1, ΔT = ~30 s in 1950 [4], so the
<Qboid> egg|zzz|egg: I'll redirect this as soon as they are around.
<egg|zzz|egg> game starts about 30 s before the start of 1951 UT1; However no mods display UT1, so you should probably refer to TT.
<egg|zzz|egg> !tell NathanKell game starts about 30 s before the start of 1951 UT1; However no mods display UT1, so you should probably refer to TT.
<Qboid> egg|zzz|egg: I'll redirect this as soon as they are around.
<Qboid> egg|zzz|egg: I'll redirect this as soon as they are around.
<Qboid> egg|zzz|egg: I'll redirect this as soon as they are around.
<Qboid> egg|zzz|egg: I'll redirect this as soon as they are around.
<egg|zzz|egg> !tell NathanKell [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%94T#/media/File:Delta_t.svg
<Qboid> egg|zzz|egg: I'll redirect this as soon as they are around.
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn Ellied
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<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn Iskierka
* Qboid gives Iskierka a pogonip-like ellipsoid
<Ellied> !wpn egg
* Qboid gives egg a parabolic haloalkane
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<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: live dinosaur https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLOQjuy2Dyg
<kmath_> YouTube - Bella Hummingbird Live Stream
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<Iskierka> dinosaur peaking the mic
<egg|zzz|egg> Iskierka: I initially understood that as poking with a beak
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<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid gives UmbralRaptor a pyrolytic denormal
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid gives UmbralRaptor an oncological death ray
<egg|zzz|egg> hu
<egg|zzz|egg> uh
<UmbralRaptor> It's actually just poorly collimated UV.
<UmbralRaptor> !wpn egg|zzz|egg
* Qboid gives egg|zzz|egg a ruby durandal
<UmbralRaptor> Huh, that's actually a weapon.
<UmbralRaptor> And given how hard ruby is, satisfies the mythological criteria!
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: it's forged out of a rail? >_>
<UmbralRaptor> No, no, delivered on rails!
* UmbralRaptor was initially thinking of impure Al2O3.
<egg|zzz|egg> yeah, I got that
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid gives UmbralRaptor a rocky mine
<kmath_> <whitequark> @oshepherd @FioraAeterna it still conducts heat rather badly though, so plastic burns are far more benign than meta… https://t.co/sKNmR9eJz2
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* UmbralRaptor wonders if this means that the second degree burns I've gotten from hot glue guns were more from the metal nozzle than the actual molten glue.
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: ow
<egg|zzz|egg> whitequark: I wonder how glue compares to sugar in terms of conductivity
<Iskierka> "spoiler; or as they insist on calling it here, abstract"
<egg|zzz|egg> Iskierka: where is that from?
<kmath_> YouTube - Blocking People in Real Life: Tom Scott at An Evening of Unnecessary Detail
<whitequark> UmbralRaptor: likely nozzle
<whitequark> unless it was a lot of glue over a lot of surface
<egg|zzz|egg> that reminds me, there was a tuco episode where some glue got on the cat D:
<Iskierka> time to alcohol rub the cat?
<egg|zzz|egg> Iskierka: I'm not sure what she did, maybe isopropanol?
<egg|zzz|egg> Iskierka: would have to find the right stream
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<BPlayer> Hi!
<BPlayer> UmbralRaptor: Quick progress log: I've settled on three images (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Velbon-dx-888.jpg, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Inst_vixen.jpg, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Deinonychus_ewilloughby.png/1280px-Deinonychus_ewilloughby.png) and I even almost finished the image, but Photoshop crashed out of the blue, so I am going to reattempt tomorrow.
<BPlayer> The tripod image is new, I just used it instead of the telescope mount. It is public domain, and I figured it's much easier to cut out and looks somewhat better.
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<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: should a theropods use GEMs
<egg|zzz|egg> Iskierka: can't find the stream right now, but came across this catpic https://twitter.com/scanlime/status/799339595468967936
<kmath_> <scanlime> https://t.co/EMevMGhEJl
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<UmbralRaptor> egg|zzz|egg: I'm partial to equatorial mounts, so probably.
<UmbralRaptor> (NAFOscope is a GEM)
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: so maybe BPlayer should use one instead of an azimuthal?
<UmbralRaptor> maybe
* UmbralRaptor wonders if there are good SCT/MCT images. Most of them seem pointed in directions that would be bad given the above deinonychus.
<BPlayer> I can cut and rotate stuff as necessary
<BPlayer> Well, in a 2D plane, that is
<Iskierka> ... is there a dice rolling bot any more? I can't keep track of them
<Iskierka> !roll 2d3
<Qboid> Iskierka: 1, 1
<UmbralRaptor> roll 2d6
<UmbralRaptor> @roll 2d6
<Soozee> UmbralRaptor: 6+4 => 10
<UmbralRaptor> ;roll 1d20
<kmath> UmbralRaptor: 1d20: 8
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<Iskierka> !roll d11
<Qboid> Iskierka: 2
<BPlayer> UmbralRaptor: Okay, got it. I think I'll stick with the Vixen on a tripod solution
<BPlayer> :P
<Iskierka> !roll d4, d6
<Qboid> Iskierka: Input string was not in a correct format.
* Iskierka sets qboid on fire
<Iskierka> @roll d4, d6
<Soozee> unexpected ',': expecting digit, operator or end of input
<Iskierka> @roll d4 d6
<Soozee> unexpected 'd': expecting operator or end of input
<Iskierka> ;roll d4 d6
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn -add:wpn ladder
<Qboid> egg|zzz|egg: Weapon added!
<Iskierka> ;roll d4, d6
<Iskierka> you bots are all useless
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn -add:adj gravitational
<Iskierka> @roll d4
<Qboid> egg|zzz|egg: Adjective already added!
<Soozee> Iskierka: 3
<Iskierka> @roll d6
<Soozee> Iskierka: 1
<egg|zzz|egg> d4+d6
<Soozee> egg|zzz|egg: 1 + 3 => 4
<egg|zzz|egg> Iskierka: ^
<UmbralRaptor> The haskell bot is apparently the most useful in this case?
<BPlayer> Iskierka: What are you doing?
<egg|zzz|egg> rolling dice
<Iskierka> with a non-obvious formatting
<Iskierka> 4d5
<Soozee> Iskierka: 8
<Iskierka> ... no, give me them
<Iskierka> @roll 4d5
<Soozee> Iskierka: 16
<egg|zzz|egg> d5+d5+d5+d5
<Soozee> egg|zzz|egg: 5 + 5 + 2 + 4 => 16
<Iskierka> @roll 2d4
<Soozee> Iskierka: 4+4 => 8
<egg|zzz|egg> 17d5
<Soozee> egg|zzz|egg: 45
<Iskierka> ... kay I'm selecting from an incomplete grid and that doesn't exist
<Iskierka> @roll 2d4
<Soozee> Iskierka: 2+4 => 6
<Iskierka> @roll d3
<Soozee> Iskierka: 2
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: that's a fork, not a GEM though
<Iskierka> @roll 2d3
<Soozee> Iskierka: 3+2 => 5
<Iskierka> @roll 2d3
<Soozee> Iskierka: 2+1 => 3
<Iskierka> @roll d11 + 2d5 + 2d5 + 2d4
<Soozee> Iskierka: 3 + (1+1) + (3+5) + (1+3) => 17
<Iskierka> @roll d5+d6
<Soozee> Iskierka: 4 + 2 => 6
<BPlayer> Iskierka: Edit min/max bounds, save in HTML file, open in browser, push button to roll dice: Iskierka: <button onclick="var min = 1; var max = 6; var dice = this.innerHTML = Math.floor(Math.random() * (max - min)) + min;">Roll Dice</button>
<BPlayer> Woops, also ignore the second highlight. Crawled in from a testing copy/paste
<Iskierka> I'm rolling to randomise stellaris races which has many many many different amounts of selections on conditionals for many different things
<Iskierka> that would take considerably more time
<BPlayer> Oh well
<Iskierka> though just noticed races is something steam doesn't sync so there's ~4 I can pull from the laptop
* UmbralRaptor keeps on finding it weirdly useful to have a terminal window running a Python session with all the math libraries loaded.
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<UmbralRaptor> Supposedly there's a planet discoverd that's at stellar temperatures: https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2017/06/05/astronomers-exoplanet-hotter-stars/
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid gives UmbralRaptor a Bekenstein ███████
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn Iskierka
* Qboid gives Iskierka a char 555 timer
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn whitequark
* Qboid gives whitequark a salted durandal
<egg|zzz|egg> Qboid likes Durandal today
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid gives UmbralRaptor a giant ram
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn Sarbian
* Qboid gives Sarbian a Hitachi frustrum with an ion channel attachment
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: hmm
<egg|zzz|egg> ian.com
<egg|zzz|egg> the guardian has a link to the full text somehow
<X> You tripped my Ian ping.
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: or of course http://sci-hub.cc/10.1038/nature22392
<UmbralRaptor> X: ian is staying banned.
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: I thought we had decided on an exponential ban? though by now they might be banned for 30 years
<UmbralRaptor> Also, yay for the sci-hub bird.
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: not entirely sure why the guardian has a link to the full text but that works too :-p
<Ellied> egg|zzz|egg: 30 years? what was the increment before, I forget
<egg|zzz|egg> Ellied: it might have been something silly like powers of twelve
<egg|zzz|egg> Ellied: maybe it's just a couple of years? not sure which step we had reached
<Ellied> maybe powers of 24? I vaguely remember a full-day ban being in there somewhere
<egg|zzz|egg> yeah probably
<egg|zzz|egg> Ellied: yeah so we're either on the one-and-a-half year ban or the 38ish-year ban
<egg|zzz|egg> Ellied: whitequark: UmbralRaptor: Iskierka: ferram4: any ideas for the colour of the trajectory of the target vessel (see principia#1424) ? Colours I currently use are fuchsia for the active vessel's prediction, acid green for its history, baby blue for its flight plan coasts, and orangered for its flight plan burns
<Qboid> [#1424] title: Plot the trajectory of the target vessel in frames that do not fix the target | Feature request by @scimas and @maccollo.... | https://github.com/mockingbirdnest/principia/issues/1424
<Iskierka> yellow to contrast coasts?
<UmbralRaptor> Just as long as they're different brightnesses.
<egg|zzz|egg> Iskierka: hmm, acid green is yellowish though
<egg|zzz|egg> or do you mean a more orangey yellow?
<egg|zzz|egg> pick one :-p https://xkcd.com/color/rgb/
<egg|zzz|egg> (or two if the target's history should have a different colour from its prediction)
<egg|zzz|egg> ... there's orangered, orange red, and red orange
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: should I stare at the moon
<egg|zzz|egg> should I moo at the moon
<UmbralRaptor> Yes.
<kmath> <ALEXISPENNEY> "Beware the power of moons" Joni Mitchell
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: anything to look at in particular?
<UmbralRaptor> Ocean of Storms?
* egg|zzz|egg storms UmbralRaptor
* UmbralRaptor stares at clouds.
<egg|zzz|egg> ow the moon is bright
* Ellied stabs relaxation oscillators
<Ellied> be more stable!
<egg|zzz|egg> Ellied: Iskierka: UmbralRaptor: yes, cat was washed with isopropanol, finally found the stream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpkrucR54D8&feature=youtu.be&t=3989
<kmath> YouTube - Cat Cam Capstan CAD and more like that @scanlime-in-progress
<SnoopJeDi> The "executive summary" I've been writing about my work in the last couple of months has ballooned to 4 pages and I haven't even written about RF dynamics yet :|
<egg|zzz|egg> ... googgling "was washed with isopropanol" yields "A significant difference was observed among HCC values when grizzly bear hair was washed with isopropanol" as the first result
<UmbralRaptor> ?
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: cat was fairly cooperative though
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: also seemed fine
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<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: should I play some DF
<UmbralRaptor> I'd like to suggest things to stare at, but with a near full moon, and Saturn not up yet…
<egg|zzz|egg> the moon shines through, but...
<UmbralRaptor> Any moonbows?
<egg|zzz|egg> not that I can see
<egg|zzz|egg> !u ?
<Qboid> U+1F628 FEARFUL FACE (?)
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: Jupiter though
* egg|zzz|egg df
* egg|zzz|egg the differential of f
* UmbralRaptor pokes Jupiter with an imaging polarimeter.
<UmbralRaptor> !u ∂
<Qboid> U+2202 PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL (∂)
<UmbralRaptor> ∂ƒ
<egg|zzz|egg> !u ƒ
<Qboid> U+0192 LATIN SMALL LETTER F WITH HOOK (ƒ)
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: ∂??
<egg|zzz|egg> !u ?
<Qboid> U+1D453 MATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMALL F (?)
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: though I really meant the differential, so d?
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: defining df so that df = df/dx dx holds seems like a way to confuse A/BPlayer
* UmbralRaptor sees tofu for the math f
<egg|zzz|egg> Ꙩ_ꙩ there's "leather armor" and "armor" as DF armor types, but you can have "armor" made out of leather, or "leather armor" (which you can explicitly say should be made out of leather)
<egg|zzz|egg> I told my dwarves to wear leather (armor), and they wore leather tunics, I think I should tell them to wear (leather armor)
<egg|zzz|egg> (of course those look the same in the UI)
<UmbralRaptor> o_O
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<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: nomal is building mechanisms
<UmbralRaptor> Traps?
<egg|zzz|egg> yeah, and levers
<egg|zzz|egg> need to get that gate to the cavern working