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.
<egg|nomz|egg>
also speaking of insects, TIL that the larvae of Rhynchophorus ferrugineus are eaten in VN (cw if you google it, often live)
<kmath>
YouTube - Ăn con đuông dừa lúc nhúc béo ngậy trong tô nước mắm
<egg|nomz|egg>
bofh: conceptually it's no worse than an oyster, but oysters don't move around quite that much :-p
<egg|nomz|egg>
I should try those (at least cooked) next time I go to VN tho
<SnoopJeDi>
Hah, local meteorologist doing a live stream, someone asked where Harvey is and where it's headed. Apparently, it's currently about over Shiner, so he said "just chilling out there at Spoetzl Brewer"
<SnoopJeDi>
Brewery, even
<UmbralRaptor>
Hah
<bofh>
LOL
<bofh>
I love flyback converters they're such a simple way to get high voltage from, like, an AA battery
<SnoopJeDi>
...is "dice" (for plural "die" in ICs) in the modern vernacular? I've always heard "dies" but just saw it in a Voyager doc
<bofh>
I've also always heard dies but <shrug>
<SnoopJeDi>
Mystery article for writing course came through: "Creating and disseminating
<SnoopJeDi>
knowledge is the fundamental goal of the academy."
<SnoopJeDi>
?
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<UmbralRaptor>
SnoopJeDi: please ? anyone who publishes in Science or Nature, but does not post preprints on Arχiv?
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<egg|nomz|egg>
!u ?
<Qboid>
U+1F914 THINKING FACE (?)
<SnoopJeDi>
UmbralRaptor, I try to make encouraging thoughtful dissemination part of my life's work. I'll badger a colleague with choosealicense.org until the cows come home to roost >_>
<UmbralRaptor>
:D
<egg|nomz|egg>
UmbralRaptor: but then if it's in either of those it's on sci-hub :-p
<SnoopJeDi>
I *think* Lorena Barba or someone in an adjacent orbit has published a guide somewhere to doing good open science along the lines of what you suggest
<egg|nomz|egg>
UmbralRaptor: can we stab people for publishing articles in semi-obscure journals in the 70s
<egg|nomz|egg>
or 60s
<egg|nomz|egg>
because *those* you can't read
<UmbralRaptor>
egg|nomz|egg: maybe. I don't know enough about that era.
<UmbralRaptor>
Meh, more stabbing. Let's go with this.
<SnoopJeDi>
welp departmental slack now has :scienceparrot:
<bofh>
LOL
<SnoopJeDi>
I am extremely grumpy that nazis means that having an Einstein pepe as our team icon is in slightly poor taste, because it was a good image.
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<kmath>
<KarenJKHart> Mewing #cats are clearly the best sounds from your 5 a day. Something different for @thecatreviewer from… https://t.co/fdjXaJs7Ju
<UmbralRaptor>
SnoopJeDi: I assume Austin's not too bad?
<bofh>
egg|zzz|egg: not yet, will poke when I get some
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<SnoopJeDi>
UmbralRaptor, I don't know, but they're well out of the worst of it
<egg|zzz|egg>
!wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid
gives UmbralRaptor a polyhedron
<SnoopJeDi>
I'm supposed to fly on Thursday, but...
<bofh>
hey I will let you know that I have an *actual* ham radio, thank you very much. >1, if SDRs count.
<bofh>
https://mobile.twitter.com/clubmadlab/status/901892333049978880 this is amazing and prolly the best use case of "bananas are capacitative": drum machine where each drum pad is a banana connected via wire to a JFET gate on the controller. yes, the keys are literally bananas. I dunno why this is so hilarious to me but it is.
<kmath>
<clubmadlab> Drum machine using a dsPIC33E with touch controller. @MicrochipMakes https://t.co/rRCjrhgcwM
<kmath>
<scanlime> Cloud enjoying the view while keeping off his sprained leg https://t.co/oRDrOEuQUV
<UmbralRaptor>
;8ball Should I blow my remaining data on streaming The Farthest?
<kmath>
UmbralRaptor: Yes definitely
<Ellied>
one of the groups at the eclipse party had an SDR attached to a Pi for getting data from their balloon. I was jelly.
<Ellied>
I think that was the Adler crew.
<Ellied>
they even had a nifty 3D-printed case for the battery and Pi.
<UmbralRaptor>
Shiny.
<bofh>
UmbralRaptor: I concur with 8ball
<bofh>
Ellied: ooh, nice.
<bofh>
come to think of it, 433MHz transmitters are cheap as dirt, I've acquired a decent amount of skill in designing PAs and directional antennas exist.
<bofh>
I should grab like the cheapest RasPi, one of those transmitters, a 10W PA and a highly directional dipole and strap that all to a Helium balloon
<bofh>
DIY radiosonde
<bofh>
(actually I'd probably use Hydrogen b/c I have an irrational dislike of using Helium for anything halfway frivolous)
<Ellied>
I was trying to get them to think about using helium for their balloon project, but they all looked at me like I was running at them with a blowtorch with a bayonet in one hand and a bottle of vodka in the other
<bofh>
what *did* they use?
<bofh>
oh man I am reminded now of the worst prank idea I ever had
<bofh>
please do not ever actually do this
<bofh>
anyway, you will need: - 1 Nitrogen Glovebox, - 1 Freshly Dried Phosphorus Pentoxide container (or equivalent strong dessicant), - 1 Rubber Balloon, - 1 source of H or He, - Ethyl Cyanoacrylate, - Glitter
<bofh>
oh, you prolly want to flush/pump out the air from the balloon first before putting it in the glovebox. anyway, first insert in the glitter, feel free to add a bunch. then pour in the ethyl cyanoacrylate and try to get it evenly spread within the inside of the balloon.
<bofh>
next, fill with hydrogen until inflated, then tie and seal the tied via heat. now extract balloon.
<bofh>
cyanoacrylate polymerizes in the presence of moisture catalyzed by oxygen, so it'll still be liquid at this point.
<bofh>
but now if you pop the balloon, well,
<bofh>
glitter is dispersed everywhere and immediately superglued onto whatever surface it landed on
<bofh>
(please do not actually do this, especially among people. while safe on skin, ethyl cyanoacrylate may cause permanent corneal scarring if it lands in someone's eye)
<UmbralRaptor>
AAAAAAAAAAAA
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