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> Achievement unlocked: IM'd the technical support of a large corporation because I felt to shy to call. o_O
e_14159 has quit [Ping timeout: 200 seconds]
<FluffyFoxeh> me every time
e_14159 has joined #kspacademia
Snoozee is now known as Majiir
<Majiir> !wpn
* Qboid gives Majiir a delta cone
<Qboid> Majiir: SilverFox left a message for you in #kspmodders [27.06.2017 04:03:50]: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ivBktSZ8yQ"
<Qboid> Majiir: SilverFox left a message for you in #kspmodders [27.06.2017 04:05:03]: "this mv has some noticeable english fuckeries"
<UmbralRaptor> English consists mostly of fuckeries, though.
<Majiir> !wpn
* Qboid gives Majiir a prime cult
<Majiir> !wpn
* Qboid gives Majiir a flaming atom with a nephroid attachment
<Majiir> A flaming atom?!
<Majiir> !wpn
* Qboid gives Majiir a depressurized cocycle
<Majiir> !wpn
* Qboid gives Majiir a power ellipse-like memory
<Majiir> !wpn
* Qboid gives Majiir a tesseral meganeuropsis
<Majiir> These are horrible weapons
<Majiir> !wpn
* Qboid gives Majiir a zircon furious-sounding gluon
<Majiir> egg|anbo|egg, are you jobbed?
<Majiir> All I recall is that you were interested in Google
<UmbralRaptor> Majiir: egg|anbo|egg has a job hallucinating dogs.
<Majiir> The market is pretty hot for that these days
<UmbralRaptor> (he got the google job, and apparently does internationalization at YouTube)
<Majiir> Neat, congrats
<Majiir> If you ever meet my sister in law in the office, tell her she sucks
<UmbralRaptor> FluffyFoxeh: Yeah, it's occasionally weird how many things people in some IRC channels have in common.
<Iskierka> IM allows clear and concise description to be left and allowed opportunity for lookup
<egg|anbo|egg> Majiir: is she in ZRH though
<egg|anbo|egg> also o/ Majiir
<egg|anbo|egg> also I can't sleep
<Majiir> egg|anbo|egg, no, Mountain View
<Majiir> Tell her she sucks anyway
<Iskierka> egg, count hallucinatory computer sheep
<egg|anbo|egg> UmbralRaptor: this is YouTube though so I guess I'd hallucinate cats?
<Iskierka> or parrots going "weeehhh!"
<UmbralRaptor> Meowing parrots.
<egg|anbo|egg> !wpn Majiir
* Qboid gives Majiir a Stern-Gerlach isomorphism
<UmbralRaptor> !wpn -add:wpn spin
<Qboid> UmbralRaptor: Weapon added!
<egg|anbo|egg> Majiir: also principia has a new release every new moon now
<egg|anbo|egg> Majiir: and sarbian is making n-body nyancats
<Majiir> I am the author of the world's most far-reaching Cat Facts via SMS system
<UmbralRaptor> Majiir: wait, what?
<Majiir> I work for a company that does emergency notification
<Majiir> A few mergers later and we're the largest? one in the market now
<Majiir> I wrote the system that sends SMS for one of the companies, and within a few weeks it'll be the SMS system for the combined companies
<Majiir> I snuck a Cat Facts system past code review
<Majiir> and we have all sorts of international SMS coverage that it turns out is rather hard to get, so there you have it: world's most widely available Cat Facts
FluffyFoxeh is now known as Frogging101
<egg|anbo|egg> cats!
<egg|anbo|egg> \o/
<UmbralRaptor> So you can test your SMS system with cats!
<Majiir> We did in fact do that
<Majiir> We weren't sure if the legacy system was still receiving so I tested cat facts
<kmath> YouTube - アニメ インコカラーズ本編
<kmath> <atonal440> @FioraAeterna Macademia, where nuts go to advance knowledge and teach other nuts.
<UmbralRaptor> Iskierka: birbs!
<kmath> <astrobetter> Help make it easier to acknowledge the software backbones that we’ve come to rely upon. https://t.co/DrwtCuwIzI https://t.co/WzPDMLzW98
icefire has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer]
<SnoopJeDi> local library book club thingy re: climate was *okay*
<SnoopJeDi> Not really sure what I was expecting
<UmbralRaptor> Hrm. Can you explain?
<UmbralRaptor> (Also, do you have an opinion about the Warm Regards podcast?)
* UmbralRaptor isn't certain what books would be best at this point. The Madhouse Effect, or...?
<SnoopJeDi> UmbralRaptor, NOAA/NSF program that gives a grant to a handful libraries (~50 I believe) in the US to host 3 readings/discussions
<SnoopJeDi> We read "The Water Knife" and then had a 2 hour sitdown which was a mixture of broad discussion of climate change, with lots of focus on how it can drive local change/adaptation (there was some video about a guy who runs a 3D kelp/scallop/oyster farm)
<SnoopJeDi> and then discussion of the book itself and that naturally segued into climate
* UmbralRaptor has heard good things about that book.
<SnoopJeDi> we had a climatologist from our local dept of atmospheric science, he made us (most attendees def not academics) aware of things like climate.gov
<SnoopJeDi> stepped through one or two datasets using one of the explorer tools available there, to show Texas trends over the recorded history
<SnoopJeDi> UmbralRaptor, you want a copy? I've got *two* now because I foolishly entered a little raffle at the event (I wanted the NASA conference swag bag :x) and got a hardcover
<UmbralRaptor> !
<UmbralRaptor> If it weren't for the whole moving in the next month or so, I'd totally say yes.
<UmbralRaptor> Meh, it's just one book, and I'll be getting rid of a bunch anyway.
<SnoopJeDi> ahh, new place or are you relocating for program?
<UmbralRaptor> Relocating for program.
<SnoopJeDi> (my brain is not good at keeping track of this sort of misc I'm afraid, I feel rotten about it)
Majiir is now known as Snoozee
<SnoopJeDi> oh and no I have not heard of Warm Regards
<UmbralRaptor> They're a podcast trying to get into some things around climate change.
<SnoopJeDi> ahhh
<UmbralRaptor> er
<SnoopJeDi> I have the most awful typical-physicist perspective on it tbh. I know some radiative transfer, I know thermo, I've done stochastic *stuff*, so ofc I think I know everything I need to know
<SnoopJeDi> Nevermind that I couldn't explain how a thunderstorm forms better than a 10 year old might (and quite a few 10 y/os would beat me!)
<UmbralRaptor> Heh.
<SnoopJeDi> the broad strokes of IPCC's projections aren't that hard to gloss over, though
<UmbralRaptor> As far as biological feedback goes, have you ever seen stuff about daisyworld?
<SnoopJeDi> doesn't ring a bell, no
<SnoopJeDi> oh, neat
<UmbralRaptor> Yeah, it's about the simplest possible model and it shows spiffy things.
<SnoopJeDi> we were discussing overfishing a little because of the video we viewed, and I pointed out that "overfish" isn't even a fixed volume when you consider that climate can drive ecology (and *gulp* vice versa)
<Ellied> whitequark: hey, my replacement laptop battery is in Hong Kong, can you grab it for me
<whitequark> Ellied: where in hong kong
<Ellied> I can't tell, Aliexpress just says "Arrived at Sort Facility HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT"
<whitequark> well HKIA handles between 20k and 35k parcels per *hour*
<whitequark> that was in 2005 actually
<Ellied> I'd easily believe that
<Ellied> hmm, lithium is low-z, you probably wouldn't be able to find it with an x-ray fluorimeter
Technicalfool has joined #kspacademia
ferram4 has quit [Ping timeout: 204 seconds]
hattivat has joined #kspacademia
<hattivat> only a language processing tool designed by a mathematician would infringe on the maxim of relation this hard by simply assuming a math-related implicature
<hattivat> funny, nonetheless :)
<Iskierka> it was quite exact
<hattivat> only if you discard 2/3 of the question
<egg|anbo|egg> hattivat!
<hattivat> egg!
<egg|anbo|egg> hattivat: https://twitter.com/whitequark/status/878371485898883072 from a while ago
<kmath> <whitequark> do I know anyone speaking Polish? why is "iron" "żelazo", but "cast iron" is "żeliwo"? what's the etymology. it's weird!
<egg|anbo|egg> though I think it got answered
<hattivat> I think it's basically because cast iron isn't just literally cast iron, it's a specific kind of alloys
<hattivat> so it's not particularly weird for it to have a separate name
<Iskierka> my thought was żel- is probably the root for different kinds of iron and translators are considering colloquial "iron" to mean a slightly more specific kind?
<kmath> <whitequark> twitter analytics rolling out useful new metrics https://t.co/5Aun2ueGPy
<egg|anbo|egg> hattivat: in french it's "fonte" which is essentially "that which is obtained from melting" (and is congnate to the english fount or font)
<hattivat> Iskierka: Żelazo is iron, as in the chemical element
<hattivat> -iwo is a productive suffix in Polish, many nouns are made up using it
<egg|anbo|egg> typically "fonte" means cast iron, and you can then be more specific and say "fonte d'aluminium" etc. for other metals
<hattivat> like chłodziwo ("the cooling material", from chłód which means coldness)
<Iskierka> and I guess it's normal to take off the end of other nouns when making compounds, unlike german?
<Iskierka> (contrary to the name I don't speak any polish)
<hattivat> there is also staliwo from stal (steel)
<hattivat> and apparently also żelaziwo for some other alloy, although I've never heard that word before
<hattivat> Iskierka: yes, it is
<hattivat> if they are long enough for it to be clear what the stem of the word is
<egg|anbo|egg> !wpn Iskierka
* Qboid gives Iskierka a state-of-the-art Blizzard cotter pin
<hattivat> Iskierka: also, "contrary to my name I don't speak any Polish" - High five, contrary to my name I don't speak any Finnish :)
<hattivat> egg|anbo|egg: what do you call iron, as in ironing iron?
<hattivat> for us, it's żelazko
<hattivat> so it's clearly related but not weirdly ambigous like in English
<Iskierka> also not pronounced almost the same as ion so did you say it's a Li-ion or LiFe battery?
<egg|anbo|egg> whitequark: wait, 55% of your audience is me? how does that work >_>
<whitequark> egg|anbo|egg: the other kind of egg i suppose
<hattivat> Iskierka: hahaha, thankfully no
<Iskierka> alternatively egg spends way too much time on twitter
<hattivat> although we do have our share of weird homophones
<hattivat> like morze and może (both pronounced mozhe) - one means "the sea", the other "maybe"
<Iskierka> I feel like you need to get somewhat particular to have a sentence that can confuse those
<hattivat> so yeah, morze może is a popular pun during the holiday season
<hattivat> Iskierka: true, but it does lend itself to puns, as exemplified above
<Iskierka> I had thought of that. If it were english it would also work parsed both ways
<hattivat> actually id does in Polish too
<hattivat> because może is also one of the forms of the verb móc (to be able to)
<hattivat> so yeah, you can parse it as "the sea can..."
<hattivat> although the instincitive interpretation for most people is "perhaps the sea"
<egg|anbo|egg> hattivat: for ironing you say "fer à repasser"
<egg|anbo|egg> hattivat: which pretty much means "ironing iron" (except the verb for ironing has nothing to do with iron)
<hattivat> egg|anbo|egg: yeah, the verb is also different in Polish, it's prasować, literally "to press", as in what a hydraulic press does
<hattivat> so when you use an old-school mangle, that also "prasować"
Thomas|AWAY is now known as Thomas
Qboid was kicked from #kspacademia by *status [You have been disconnected from the IRC server]
Qboid is now known as Qboid_
Qboid_ has joined #kspacademia
Qboid has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer]
Qboid_ is now known as Qboid
<Technicalfool> !wpn egg|anbo|egg
* Qboid gives egg|anbo|egg a high-voltage entangled python
<Technicalfool> !wpn Qboid
* Qboid gives Qboid a noun terminal/ring hybrid
<egg|anbo|egg> !wpn Technicalfool
* Qboid gives Technicalfool an analytic Sagan
ferram4 has joined #kspacademia
regex has joined #kspacademia
<UmbralRaptor> Someone had fun with the introduction http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1975ApJ...196L..99Z
<UmbralRaptor> (found via @jossblandhawtho and @planet4589)
<UmbralRaptor> Trump will still be in office in 3 years, so we're doomed? https://www.nature.com/news/three-years-to-safeguard-our-climate-1.22201
TonyC has joined #kspacademia
<egg|anbo|egg> !wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid gives UmbralRaptor a fermium falcon
<UmbralRaptor> q!wpn egg|anbo|egg
<UmbralRaptor> !wpn egg|anbo|egg
* Qboid gives egg|anbo|egg a symplectic e_14159
<egg|anbo|egg> whitequark: which of the cats acted as a fuzzer
<UmbralRaptor> e_14159 now conserves energy! \o/
Technicalfool_ has joined #kspacademia
Technicalfool has quit [Ping timeout: 204 seconds]
<UmbralRaptor> https://mostsecure.pw/
<egg|anbo|egg> UmbralRaptor: um
<UmbralRaptor> :D
<whitequark> egg|anbo|egg: котя
<Iskierka> ... I thought for a moment it was a randomiser with those rules and was going to calculate the bits of entropy
<Iskierka> but in practice it's approaching 1 bit
* UmbralRaptor wonders if it was inspired by https://xkcd.com/221/
<kmath> <whitequark> @lunavis alternatively, 55% of my followers ARE eggs
<Technicalfool_> <!-- Placed at the end of the document so the pages load faster -->
<Technicalfool_> <!-- IE10 viewport hack for Surface/desktop Windows 8 bug -->
<Technicalfool_> I see Microsoft are being as interoperable as ever.
<egg|anbo|egg> https://twitter.com/KernCanCode/status/879944532808278016 clearly people should use Principia's versioning scheme, where new version = new dead mathematician = new moon
<kmath> <KernCanCode> the real semantics of semantic versioning: major = a breaking change minor = a minor breaking change patch = a little-bitty breaking change
<egg|anbo|egg> (and no version numbers :D)
<egg|anbo|egg> (via @hikari_no_yume)
<egg|anbo|egg> !wpn hattivat
* Qboid gives hattivat a sodium haloalkane
Thomas is now known as Thomas|AWAY
<egg|anbo|egg> !wpn whitequark
* Qboid gives whitequark a technetium projection
<hattivat> !wpn egg|anbo|egg
* Qboid gives egg|anbo|egg an argon graviton rotor
<Technicalfool_> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nduMTX86Zl0 that USB Ti-link. Wonder if it's just a FTDI UART attached to a jack lead?
<kmath> YouTube - LGR - "Doom" on a Calculator! [Ti-83 Plus Games Tutorial]
TheKosmonaut has quit [*.net *.split]
TheKosmonaut has joined #kspacademia
icefire has joined #kspacademia
Raptop has joined #kspacademia
Raptop has left #kspacademia [#kspacademia]
<SnoopJeDi> Idea: a beer whose name is a single Unicode codepoint. ?
pizzaoverhead is now known as pi|Zzz|aoverhead
<kmath> <DungeonFacts> When the dragon catches you stealing its treasure: https://t.co/0R3YAVf9GN
<e_14159> !wpn egg|anbo|egg
* Qboid gives egg|anbo|egg a Darboux greebled king
<egg|anbo|egg> !wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid gives UmbralRaptor a solid vertical (with ground plane)
<egg|anbo|egg> !wpn e_14159
* Qboid gives e_14159 a Bourbaki iron
<egg|anbo|egg> !u ?
<Qboid> U+1F646 FACE WITH OK GESTURE (?)
<e_14159> I'm irritated by the "Bedauerlicher Weise", but would be great.
<egg|anbo|egg> e_14159: eggstra space?
<e_14159> Aye
<egg|anbo|egg> e_14159: any reasonable eggsplanation for why the eggstraneous space might have ended up there?
<e_14159> People make mistakes?
<e_14159> In fact, that's one of the more usual ones.
<egg|anbo|egg> huh
<e_14159> Anyway, night
<egg|anbo|egg> \o
<egg|anbo|egg> !wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid gives UmbralRaptor a vicious ISO 8601-compliant quill
regex has quit [Remote host closed the connection]
<kmath> <allgebrah> the cheshire cat fades, leaves nothing but a grin, eyes, ears, fur - actually, everything's still there but still, the cat itself is gone
hattivat has quit [Quit: WeeChat 1.8]
* egg|anbo|egg zzz