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.
<Qboid>
[#374] title: Allow any characters in filenames | Ultimately any character can be part of a filename. We should probably allow that.... | https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/374
<kmath>
<DanTwoHundred> Programmers: Always use descriptive variable names Mathematicians: Single letter variable names always, ideally from obscure/dead alphabets
<Ellied>
UmbralRaptor: was that an actual blank line at 00:46 UTC, or a character I'm missing?
<bofh>
> Programmers use descriptive variable names
<bofh>
oh boy do I have some 45-year old FORTRAN for you
<Iskierka>
that's not programming, that's torture
<UmbralRaptor>
Ellied: I don't have timestamps active on my phone, so right after bofh asking why anyone would so that?
<UmbralRaptor>
!u ?
<Qboid>
U+1F632 ASTONISHED FACE (?)
<Ellied>
ah, alas, that is a missing character
<SnoopJeDi>
bofh, cc whitequark I believe?
<SnoopJeDi>
the internet friends pic, I mean
<Ellied>
at my physics department, the prevailing style of writing MATLAB favors not only single-letter variables, but REUSED single-letter variables.
<Ellied>
sometimes single-letter variables that alternate what they're used for during a loop. @_@
<Ellied>
the most common variable name is, of course, x
<Fiora>
you know what's better than single letters though
<kmath>
<WorldAndScience> Infographic There's Big Money to Be Made in Asteroid Mining https://t.co/sZbjIXermj
<Fiora>
omg
<Fiora>
that chart is amazing.
<Fiora>
ah yes, we will just take this 100km wide rock and define its value by its mineral makeup.
<Fiora>
how will you get those minerals? hmmmhhmhmhmhmhm i dont know
<Fiora>
did you know the sun is worth gazillions of dollars. it's like. pure hydrogen and helium!!! and we have a helium shortage too
<Iskierka>
they could've also made it big enough for the fonts to render clearer
<Fiora>
eh? reads fine here
<Iskierka>
it can be read but I'm at full zoom and it's fuzzy, some eye strain
<Iskierka>
most noticeable on asteroid type list
<Fiora>
its probably twitter's scaling T B H
<Iskierka>
I opened in new tab
<Fiora>
er, twitter doesn't show the original image
<Fiora>
even if you open in new tab
<Fiora>
it shows a scaled version. the one it displays is an -even smaller- scaled version
<Fiora>
it doesn't allow you to upload arbitrarily large images
<Iskierka>
Which means this one is too big for twitter
<Iskierka>
font size in places must be less than 5 and that doesn't work without low-resolution fonts
<Iskierka>
I also just noticed the elements are formatted wrong
* UmbralRaptor
was especially amused by Chiron because if one isn't careful, it could take >10 km/s to get the materials somewhere useful. Also, the diameter is probably far too small.
<Fiora>
also like...... it would be cheaper to make a borehole. on earth.
<Fiora>
the only reason to mine an asteroid is if you need the materials in space. at which point valuing things in terms of money makes no sense, since there's no market in space (or medium of exchange) with which to value things
<Iskierka>
some of the rare metals on NEOs might be a different matter in the coming years
<Iskierka>
but only the rare metals
<Fiora>
yeah, that's like the one exception i can think of
<Iskierka>
which begs the question where's iridium on this list
<UmbralRaptor>
Good question.
<Iskierka>
ammonia/water are only relevant if trying to live in space. Iron would primarily be relevant as a dead mass that can be smelted and made ferromagnetic so you can use it as mass for electric propulsion without ionisation
<Iskierka>
if you were building in space you'd need some but nowhere near the quantities the asteroids have
<Fiora>
also even if you're mining rare metals, you need to be able to refine them (well enough) on the asteroid
<Fiora>
otherwise you just run into the delta v problem again
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<whitequark>
Fiora: i do wonder about the helium shortage, like can we launch satellites into van allen belts to collect helium there and if yes, how efficient is that
<whitequark>
like we did use mass spectrometers to separate u-235 into kilogram amounts
<whitequark>
*thinks* though doing things like "drilling into the least useful natural gas repositories and doing pressure swing adsorbtion to preferentially extract helium from them" should be vastly cheaper
<whitequark>
dumb idea
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<Greys>
and imagine you then placed a cylinder on the wheels
<Iskierka>
403 denied
<Greys>
logically the swivels would revolve so the wheels are furthest on an approximate plane created by their combined axles and swivles.... fricken internet
<Greys>
from the projected centerline of the cylinder
<Greys>
now there's also the crown pully effect, which may or may not apply to this situation, where if you run a belt over a wheel who'se outer surface is rounded over, the belt experiences a pseudoforce as a result of traction and tension and so on that tries to keep the belt's contact pattern centered over the portion of the wheel curvature that is most distant from the center of rotation
<Greys>
if it does come into effect than the swivle casters will want to likewise keep their contact with the cylinder centered on the peak of their crowns
<Greys>
which should, ideally, combined with the settling effect, make the wheels seek a lowest energy state wherein the wheel is roughly perpindicular to the centerline of the cylinder, regardless of the alignment of the wheels to themselves
<egg|afk|egg>
yay a happy user? forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/0--&do=findComment&comment=3165610
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<egg>
UmbralRaptor: so the abbreviations for the m states are M[SEDATION]
<whitequark>
wat
<UmbralRaptor>
egg: Now how does it correlate with opioid deaths?
* UmbralRaptor
? banks
<Greys>
hmmmm
<Greys>
my eyes think that checks out
<Greys>
I wonder how many other natural sets of states you can make words out of like this
<UmbralRaptor>
Customer loyalty is enforced by making it all but impossible to interact w/ one via an account at another, xfer funds, etc.
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<UmbralRaptor>
And of course ATM fees.
<UmbralRaptor>
($3 here)
<Greys>
the abbreviations of states don't make sense
<Greys>
Maine and Maryland have the last letter, Mass. and Michigan have the second, and the rest have random letters because the appropriate letter was already taken
<Iskierka>
arianespace says 43 min so I assume that's to the livestream start
<Greys>
MonTana, at least makes sense because it's a signifcant part of the name, but I would have gone with MO, cept taken
<Iskierka>
Take the hardest unique consonant that has to be enunciated to be clearly that name?
<Iskierka>
not that that works for the vowels
<Greys>
Mizzureh doesn't even have an O when you say it
<Greys>
but MI and MS were taken
<Iskierka>
MR
<Greys>
Mssssippi, I guess they're screwed
<Greys>
they should have stuck with the last letter thing, there's only two pairs of states that share a last letter, but there's four states with i as the second letter, and three with a
<Iskierka>
among all states or among m states?
<Greys>
there are only m states
<Greys>
then, going with last letter, or first untaken consonant, we'd have MI, ME, MD, MS, MT, MN, MR, MA
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<egg>
(it's not in Чебышёв, got introduced since then, but obviously we need to fix that before Cesàro)
* UmbralRaptor
blinks at the yellow-green line's right angles.
<egg>
UmbralRaptor: yes, that's the bug
<egg>
UmbralRaptor: the thing gets teleported along its orbit around the solar system barycentre on contact with another vessel (a Kerbal in this case)
<kmath>
<sehurlburt> For people who are in a position to give help: Post to your timeline every now & then that you're open to questions. That makes a difference