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.
<kmath>
<codl> ah the 10 genders, binary and non binary
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<awang>
Anyone here read through the Excel team AMA?
<SnoopJeDi>
Didn't know one was happening. Was it just sustained sobbing for a few hours?
<awang>
I think it was surprisingly civil
<awang>
Good amount of bug reports there though
<UmbralRaptor>
The biggest thing "wrong" with Excel is that you can apparently try to use it like a low budget version of Access.
<SnoopJeDi>
Access...now there is a pile.
<awang>
There was actually a request on the AMA asking the team if they could put up a warning or something if a user was trying to do Access in Excel
<UmbralRaptor>
heh
<SnoopJeDi>
if you're trying to Access period, the PC should just reach out of the screen and smack you with a decent DB
<awang>
"Hey guys, request from IT department here. We have "wonderful" users who try to perform an operation on hundreds of thousands of cells at a time then complain that their computer is too slow when their i7's with 16 gigs of RAM and SSD's chug for a bit trying to make sense of the idiotic request they just made of Excel which is far out of the bounds of what Excel is really meant to do. Instead of
<awang>
slowing to a crawl, when users get past the point of doing something reasonable, can you just have a pop-up that reaches out of their screen, bitch-slaps them, takes their mouse, opens up MS Access, and tells them to stop trying to run a database out of Excel and then blaming the hardware for their idiocy? Thanks."
<SnoopJeDi>
Any VLOOKUP angst?
<awang>
I didn't see any
<awang>
But I wasn't looking too closely
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<UmbralRaptor>
"No vision tests after all. Our laser isn't powerful enough to mess your eyes up." \o/
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<Ellied>
yaaay
<Ellied>
re: "optical I think" - AIUI all things that sit on a bench and are called "lasers" by experimental physicists are in the optical range. If it's in the microwave region they'll call it a maser, if it's in the x-ray they'll say "FEL" or "synchrotron" or whatever it happens to be
<Ellied>
I mean I guess if you have an actual free-electron laser that sits on a bench I wouldn't put it past people who use it to call it "the laser"
* whitequark
sees a wild rqou
<rqou>
hi whitequark
<Ellied>
hey rqou, do you by chance know someone who goes by rqu on the 'net?
<rqou>
no?
<Ellied>
I just met him IRL and was momentarily confused between your username and his, and he mentioned knowing about (presumably) you, but I forget if he said he knew you
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<Iskierka>
this is going waaay back because I just read a thing that reminded me, but SnoopJeDi: when you say clickers as a terrible idea for improving lectures, do you mean a system where students have to log in and identify themselves, and their answers to it actually count towards credit?
<Iskierka>
because we have a "clicker" system but it's just "log in if you want, no identification required, we're just doing this to get a feel for understanding on key points"
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<UmbralRaptor>
egg|work|egg: well, if anything I should be focusing on QM homework.
<bofh>
heh.
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* UmbralRaptor
? off by one column errors in reading bus schedules.
<bofh>
stabbity
<UmbralRaptor>
"Mason Alert: This message initiates the 10:19 a.m. voluntary earthquake drill and Mason Alert test. Drill ends at 10:30 a.m. See email for more information."
<UmbralRaptor>
okay…
<bofh>
"voluntary earthquake drill"?
<bofh>
so ignoring it is perfectly acceptable?
<bofh>
:P
<UmbralRaptor>
We're farther from any faults in DC than in Springfield (MO)
<kmath>
<AAS_Policy> Interested in a Great Observatory? Two IR channels, trailing Earth orbit, history of discovery. Could be yours!… https://t.co/pPjEf8r7AE
* Iskierka
sets google results on fire
<Iskierka>
I don't want to know what tethering is, or how to do it! I searched "remember setting" because it periodically unsets itself and I want to stop that, I know exactly what it does and how!
* Qboid
gives Iskierka an expander Bussard classmethod
<egg|work|egg>
!wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid
gives UmbralRaptor an actinium torch
<egg|work|egg>
fr
<egg|work|egg>
uh
<egg|work|egg>
!wpn
* Qboid
gives egg|work|egg an avalanche voulge
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<APlayer>
Ellied: While I remember... Thanks a huge lot for the circuit diagram you made and uploaded for me. I have saved it on my desktop, so you may take it down whenever you feel like it occupies unnecessary space or whatever.
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<egg|afk|egg>
!wpn Fiora
* Qboid
gives Fiora an ill-conditioned Bessel snake
egg|afk|egg is now known as egg
<egg>
!wpn whitequark
* Qboid
gives whitequark a Teller-Ulam DDOS
<egg>
!wpn bofh
* Qboid
gives bofh a Müller LED/astronomer hybrid
<egg>
!wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid
gives UmbralRaptor a monad
<bofh>
goddamnit, ill-conditioned Bessel * brings back bad memories of April
<bofh>
which, well, let's just say that Bessel f'ns are all pretty goddamn ill-conditioned around their zeroes.
<egg>
:D
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* APlayer
starts ordering the MOSFETs on mouser... Total item price: 0.57€.
* APlayer
looks at the shipping cost... Total price: 20€
<APlayer>
Considering they could both be shipped within a small letter (in Germany, classified as < 2g), this price does seem suspicious
<egg>
!wpn NomalRaptor
* Qboid
gives NomalRaptor a bismuth router
* NomalRaptor
kraks the router, and spills packets everywhere.
<kmath>
<Blouchtika> Et comme disait Gandalf en le jetant dans le feu, l'Anneau ne tait rien. https://t.co/P8PZuWfDFl
<egg>
bofh: also the reply reminds me of the treacherous correspondence between french and english for metallurgic terms: quenching = trempe (lit. "dipping"), tempering = revenu (lit. "come back"), annealing = recuit (lit. "recooking")
<egg>
bofh: and as you might expect this always gets mistranslated, either with trempe for tempering, or swapping revenu and recuit
<kmath>
<gravislizard> metalworkers spent 150 years soaking steel in piss before anyone tried anything else and another hundred before any… https://t.co/daOT9NS7X7
<egg>
Ꙩ_ꙩ
<egg>
do I want to know more about the "accidentally"
<kmath>
<CastIrony> @SuddenlyPaulP @gravislizard @Hbomberguy The same book actually contains the story: https://t.co/NpQPddB3B6
<bofh>
egg: long S looks weird btw
<bofh>
egg: I keep thinking of half an integral sign.
<egg>
bofh: well in italics it looks like an entire integral sign
<egg>
an integral integral sign?
<bofh>
basically.
<egg>
I ſhould ſet up a keyboard layout ſo I can type ſome of thoſe nice letters
<egg>
;miſſion
<kmath>
egg: You attach an afterburner to the nozzle of your rocket, hoping that it will make the rocket go faster. The survivors explode, emitting all kinds of life-giving radiation.
<egg>
moſt ſtrange
<egg>
!wpn bofh
* Qboid
gives bofh a ⚛
<egg>
!wpn NomalRaptor
* Qboid
gives NomalRaptor a quiet shell
<egg>
!wpn Iskierka
* Qboid
gives Iskierka a 2N3904
<bofh>
Oh perfect, a ⚛!
<egg>
!wpn
* Qboid
gives egg a rotary standing wave ratio
<bofh>
Just what I always needed!
<bofh>
(now it depends on *which* ⚛... hopefully it's Pu-238)
<egg>
alias fſck=fsck
<bofh>
LOL
<bofh>
so adding that to bashrc.
<bofh>
also reminds me of a friend that legitimately had many typos aliased out, like alias grpe=grep and stuff like that
<egg>
alias ſed=sed, too
<egg>
bofh: though to get #!/bin/ſh to work you're going to need more than an alias
<bofh>
egg|zzz|egg: that would make sense, honestly, given the average length of a particle physics paper
<bofh>
egg|zzz|egg: also that's a good blog IMO
<bofh>
unrelated, but I realized I should *prolly* cut back on caffeine, just realized I'm at the equivalent of 6-7 cups of coffee/day or so.
<bofh>
(and prolly explains why the heck the crashes are getting stronger... weirdly I get really inexplicably sad first, takes a few hours for the horrible headache to kick in)
* egg|zzz|egg
tries following cjktype and ken_lunde on the diapsid website
<rqou>
the dictionary i normally use shows animal radical + 9 strokes
<rqou>
but it's "how to write this" animation only uses 8
<rqou>
*its
<egg|zzz|egg>
... 8 strokes and then scratch the paper in the middle of the horizonal stroke
<rqou>
according to this dictionary's radical/stroke search, it's +9 for traditional, +8 for simplified
<rqou>
but my fonts (no idea which fonts, haven't had time to debug, go ask @eevee) render them all as +8
<egg|zzz|egg>
rqou: okay so doing some html editing in that table about han unification, we're seeing the simplified version of the traditional cat, but in the right context you can see the traditional one: https://i.imgur.com/xaLgtOZ.png
<egg|zzz|egg>
(and viet gets the long end of the CJKV)
<rqou>
hey, _some_ people have been busy adding Zhuang and/or Chữ Nôm to unicode, hence why we now have a tertiary ideographic plane reserved
<egg|zzz|egg>
yeah, but fonts for them aren't commonly available
<egg|zzz|egg>
(contrast with zh-Hant: it has fonts without action from my part on that machine, it's just that most of the time the language is not set properly in the html and it renders as zh-Hans)
<egg|zzz|egg>
whereas vi renders as zh-Hans even in the presence of lang=vi
<rqou>
so on my machine, i get identical output for zh-Hans, zh-Hant, and ko
<rqou>
using +8
<rqou>
and the zh-Hans font isn't serifed, despite the wikipedia markup requesting it
<rqou>
er, nvm
<rqou>
it's supposed to be sans-serif
<rqou>
vi somehow gets a serif font
<rqou>
and a completely different one from everything else
<egg|zzz|egg>
yeah because there's no font for vi so it falls back stupidly
<rqou>
ja gets a sans-serif font where the top stroke of the animal radical is at a higher angle, but is still +8 strokes
<egg|zzz|egg>
(and displays zh-Hans glyphs because that's the least sensible one to pick)