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)
<bofh> so like that still ain't got nothin' on this shit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casu_marzu
<bofh> "Some people clear the larvae from the cheese before consuming while others do not." #wikifinds
<egg|nomz|egg> bofh: so like it is a little bit odd looking when eaten live still [cw live larvae being eaten] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHc1JMCgQL0
<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.
<egg|nomz|egg> bofh: oh hey that channel whitequark shared has a video about an insect in the same genus as the larvae above https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6a3Q5DzeBM
<kmath> YouTube - A Real Alien Invasion Is Coming to a Palm Tree Near You | Deep Look
<egg|nomz|egg> bofh: a new californian delicacy I guess? :-p
<UmbralRaptor> egg|nomz|egg: You should get whitequark to try that larvae rich cheese,
<egg|nomz|egg> UmbralRaptor: in HK it might be easier to get the coconut larvae than weird corsican cheese
<UmbralRaptor> ah
<bofh> oh joy. tasty</sarcasm>
<egg|nomz|egg> bofh: so they're apparently really good (and not cheap, you only get them from dead trees)
<egg|nomz|egg> bofh: though I think I'd want to try them cooked rather than alive >_>
<UmbralRaptor> Also, how long has egg|nomz|egg been eating?
<egg|nomz|egg> uh
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<bofh> egg|zzz|egg: so I lost my copy of the nekonomicon, so I can't confirm about the relative phylogenetics of catbuses and catspiders, sorry.
<egg|zzz|egg> :D nekonomicon :D :D
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: ネコノミコヌ?
<UmbralRaptor> egg|zzz|egg: barring weirdness with syllable length, yes. I think.
<bofh> weirdly no results found on google, I am disappoint.
<egg|zzz|egg> theropod
<SnoopJeDi> heropod, theropod, everywhereopodpod
<UmbralRaptor> /r/PartyParrot is a great name.
<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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<SnoopJeDi> oh my god bofh this account https://twitter.com/ridingrobots/status/901629987073044480
<kmath> <ridingrobots> So fast. So fast. https://t.co/nmMYWPCvSA
<Iskierka> eh, earth is going about that fast
<SnoopJeDi> ooooooh and from there magazines with articles about the Voyager missions?!
<SnoopJeDi> I'm going deep into social network debt over here with all the good stuff
<kmath> <mcclure111> START WITH "A HAWK IS SEEKING REFUGE IN MY TAXI" AND JUST WATCH THEM ALL https://t.co/ykZyIsxXp3
<UmbralRaptor> SnoopJeDi: More to the hawk!
<SnoopJeDi> !!!
<SnoopJeDi> animal psychology is incredible
<SnoopJeDi> ugh, the last video
<SnoopJeDi> but still, adorable
<Iskierka> thaaaat's a lot of confederate flags
<SnoopJeDi> and casual sexism
<SnoopJeDi> which imo is a lot less acceptable
<bofh> both are unacceptable imo
<bofh> but yeah the hawk is so amazing
<SnoopJeDi> bofh, I'm a little uneasy that so many people have misinterpreted that REALLY good MD flag thread on Twitter as a move to change the flag
<SnoopJeDi> but I have no personal affection for the symbol of literal traitors who also happened to be slavers, it's true
<SnoopJeDi> (not that I harbor any illusions about the North)
<bofh> SnoopJeDi: yeah, that's all quite sensible, I concur.
* UmbralRaptor wonders if skipping the videos was wise. >_>
<SnoopJeDi> bofh, OTOH, I'm ill-read on the subject, so...gotta put in the work
<SnoopJeDi> I did read the last chapter of Dubois because @ClintSmithiii called it the "best 18 pages of text in American history"
<bofh> *nods* that is indeed a very solid read iirc
<SnoopJeDi> ...I uh...couldn't find a PDF of it anywhere except socialism.org >_>
<UmbralRaptor> hah
<bofh> rofl
<SnoopJeDi> oh my god, Nintendo's official Switch recommendation is to route ports 1-65535 to the Switch
<bofh> ROFL
<bofh> wouldn't it literally have been simpler to tell them to add it to DMZ? not that that's at all sane either
<SnoopJeDi> UPnP doesn't real
<bofh> UPnP is a fucking suitshow
<SnoopJeDi> I can't blame them for saying "networking is hard gl lmao"
<UmbralRaptor> Switch botnet when?
<SnoopJeDi> Last October?
<UmbralRaptor> ah
<SnoopJeDi> I'm just being a git since we had that IoT botnet thingy, I don't think the Switch was out then?
<SnoopJeDi> I haven't really tried it except to see some Zeldo and watch my friend play Squid Game
<UmbralRaptor> It's turtles^Wgalaxies all the way down. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aa78fa#new_tab
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<SnoopJeDi> My god, it's full of stars!
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<bofh> LOL. Appropriate.
<kmath> <70sscifiart> Don Dixon https://t.co/qOwFcfqhCI https://t.co/XJNOHH4Gmf
<kmath> <diodebot> rectifier diode
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn Fiora
* Qboid gives Fiora a barium timer
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn whitequark
* Qboid gives whitequark a Maxwell-Boltzmann inexplicable popup that didn't used to be there and doesn't do what it used to
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn bofh
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<bofh> !wpn egg
* Qboid gives egg a fizzix DDOS which vaguely resembles a Glamdring
<egg|zzz|egg> o/ bofh
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: any news from atlas?
<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
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<SnoopJeDi> I'm supposed to fly on Thursday, but...
<UmbralRaptor> meep
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: any cats at your new institution?
<UmbralRaptor> Not that I've seen so far. There seems to be a small observatory on the roof of one building, but no idea what's in it.
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: um, what about the fuzzier kind of cat
<UmbralRaptor> Haven't seen any meowing cats.
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: clearly another reason to come to zurich :-p
* egg|zzz|egg pets UmbralRaptor with a cat
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn Fiora
* Qboid gives Fiora an entangled asm.js
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn whitequark
* Qboid gives whitequark a dorsal impenetrability condition which vaguely resembles a scale
<bofh> what's it entangled with? WebAssembly?
* SnoopJeDi snerk
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn bofh
* Qboid gives bofh a theoretical ham radio
<kmath> <catsu> https://t.co/ti34Zz0066
<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
<UmbralRaptor> Why are my files slow? Cloud sprained a leg. https://twitter.com/scanlime/status/901485478318284800
<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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