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>
U+12031 CUNEIFORM SIGN AN PLUS NAGA SQUARED (?)
<egg|zzz|egg>
...
<egg|zzz|egg>
!wpn bofh
* Qboid
gives bofh a snowy katana
<UmbralRaptor>
naga squared… 4 snakes?
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<Iskierka>
hrm. there should be a utility for exercising laptop batteries, on automation (and preferably on mains power, so when complete charging can restart)
<Iskierka>
internal battery has dropped to 89% capacity due to under-utilisation
<Ellied>
!u ?
<Qboid>
U+12031 CUNEIFORM SIGN AN PLUS NAGA SQUARED (?)
<Ellied>
oh, silly me, didn't read the scrollback at all.
<Ellied>
that character is scary
<Ellied>
that's not even in kcharselect
<Ellied>
!u ?
<Qboid>
U+1210E CUNEIFORM SIGN GIR3 TIMES LU PLUS IGI (?)
<Iskierka>
my version of kcharselect is outdated (doesn't have the ? that I use in discord username), so iunno if you're using a newer (or new enough) version
<Ellied>
newest in Debian Testing
<Ellied>
as of like right now
<Ellied>
!u ?
<Qboid>
U+1210F CUNEIFORM SIGN GIR3 TIMES PA (?)
<Iskierka>
probably newer than LTS version but I wouldn't be surprised if debian testing could be a little behind KDE
<bofh>
Yeah I think I transposed the acute and it's supposed to be on the i.
<egg|zzz|egg>
GÍR
<egg|zzz|egg>
yeah
<egg|zzz|egg>
stabbity ?
<bofh>
Indeed :D
<UmbralRaptor>
?
<egg|zzz|egg>
bofh: no full stop after ? either
<egg|zzz|egg>
there doesn't sem to be an AN.BAR sign
<egg|zzz|egg>
(codepoint at least)
<egg|zzz|egg>
I guess you just write ???
<bofh>
Hm. Probably?
* Iskierka
leroy jenkinses into switching to windows with linux hibernated, to reconfigure battery. Discovers windows session in hibernate the whole time.
<Iskierka>
... okay lenovo, that's some fancy shit that you can tell which type of power adapter is being used from just a two-pin connector
<SnoopJeDi>
bofh, we get about 50/50 hyperspecific questions from technical efforts and stuff selected off the classic "N questions you will get at a conference" list
<UmbralRaptor>
So, UMKC wants me to update my information. They have a business field.
<SnoopJeDi>
I'm in the habit of asking rather too many questions, but I have learned the grace to at least let the room breathe for a second before I put my hand up on something inane, haha
<SnoopJeDi>
gosh heckin heck it Cassini is the gift that keeps on giving
<egg|zzz|egg>
rqou: this channel is often full of cuneiform
<bofh>
It really truly is.
<SnoopJeDi>
And really good cuneiform fanfic
<egg|zzz|egg>
UmbralRaptor: yes, so does ???, and ??
<UmbralRaptor>
nice
<bofh>
SnoopJeDi: so I linked the quasihorse comic to a friend of mine and got "obviously not a good display of the strong nuclear horse" as a response :P
<SnoopJeDi>
LOL
<SnoopJeDi>
I just snort-laughed
<egg|zzz|egg>
UmbralRaptor: or you can spell it out in akkadian, <whatever pat is>?
<SnoopJeDi>
oh my god they asked a rabbi that is *amazing*
<SnoopJeDi>
I really love examples of religion/science coexisting in a good way because it's so underrepresented
<egg|zzz|egg>
bofh: hmmm or maybe it's PÀD (IGI.RU) ???
<egg|zzz|egg>
ah no there's a PAD (ŠUK)
<bofh>
tbh that's honestly a very reasonable person to ask IMO (I keep getting poked by Jewish friends of mine to possibly see one on that topic, but feel too nervous to try).
<egg|zzz|egg>
so probably ?
<egg|zzz|egg>
!u ?
<Qboid>
U+1227B CUNEIFORM SIGN PAD (?)
<egg|zzz|egg>
UmbralRaptor: so ?? probably
<bofh>
egg|zzz|egg: yeah I think it's PAD, not PÀD here.
<egg|zzz|egg>
"When your enemy pierces you, may there be no honey, oil, ginger or cedar-resin available to place on your wound."
<SnoopJeDi>
ancient sumerian subtweeting? (is cuneiform uniquely Sumerian or does it cross cultural bins?)
<egg|zzz|egg>
I think we're looking at akkadian here
<egg|zzz|egg>
UmbralRaptor: so patāḫu linked by bofh above can apparently be spelled ??? or ???
<egg|zzz|egg>
!u ???
<Qboid>
U+1227A CUNEIFORM SIGN PA (?)
<Qboid>
U+122EB CUNEIFORM SIGN TA (?)
<Qboid>
U+12137 CUNEIFORM SIGN HU (?)
<egg|zzz|egg>
!u ???
<Qboid>
U+1227A CUNEIFORM SIGN PA (?)
<Qboid>
U+1222D CUNEIFORM SIGN MU OVER MU (?)
<Qboid>
U+1230B CUNEIFORM SIGN U (?)
<SnoopJeDi>
Qboid, I think you've got a promising career as a cheerleader ahead of you.
<egg|zzz|egg>
(MU over MU being TAḪ/DAḪ)
<egg|zzz|egg>
bofh: the sumerian glyph for ? looks really stabby tbh
* egg|zzz|egg
should zzz
<egg|zzz|egg>
!wpn bofh
* Qboid
gives bofh a thulium tadpole
<egg|zzz|egg>
!wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid
gives UmbralRaptor a strange zygomorphism
<bofh>
egg|zzz|egg: LOL it does!
<SnoopJeDi>
bofh, oh yea, very reasonable indeed. The mass I attended in September for a christening got me thinking about religious leaders as community organizers and confidants
<SnoopJeDi>
I don't think I can name another everpresent social construct that fills the same one-size-fits-all advisor role
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<bofh>
SnoopJeDi: yeah, and I do think it's a role that is lacking for many people in today's society honestly.
<SnoopJeDi>
I think I'm going to relisten to that TED Radio Hour episode I like on the matter
<SnoopJeDi>
since it's been about a year and 'tis the season
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<bofh>
!u Ꜳ
<Qboid>
U+A732 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER AA (Ꜳ)
<bofh>
SnoopJeDi: which is that one, I think I might quite enjoy it
<kmath>
<0xabad1dea> @eevee The fools. I don’t actually have a name
<SnoopJeDi>
a girl has no name?
<SnoopJeDi>
just kidding I don't watch King of the Game
<Iskierka>
kindle desktop will prevent you from copy-paste, presumably to prevent easy book stealing. But it will let you google a highlighted section, which opens a browser it has no control of
<Ellied>
I tried to paste bofh's twitter name into IRC and it broke ncurses
<SnoopJeDi>
no one can be told what bofh is
<SnoopJeDi>
you have to see him for yourself
<bofh>
rofl
<Ellied>
also per the tweet I just sent you it appears they forgot to truncate the names for certain things
<bofh>
Yep.
<UmbralRaptor>
SnoopJeDi: well, she's had problems with computers crashing on her name.
<SnoopJeDi>
weridly, TweetDeck does *great* with new-bad-twitter
<SnoopJeDi>
weirdly, too
<Ellied>
god I love it when text runs off the edge of layout boundaries on webpages. that's such an aesthetic
<Ellied>
because Terminus doesn't have them and it has to draw them from another font
<Iskierka>
I feel like desktop client's a good choice. Even if it's being ... poorly maintained
* Iskierka
should look into building new from source to at least get rid of ctrl+w unnecessary shortcut
<bofh>
Ellied: yep same here actually.
<bofh>
Ellied: which is why I find them to be so imposing
<Ellied>
nice
<bofh>
(well actually my default IRC font is an unholy union of 6x13.pcf.gz, SimSun-12.pcf.gz & NotoSansCuneiform rendered to bitmaps at 13pt)
<bofh>
(but otherwise same thing happened here, it appears I forgot to copy over the fullwidth text block from the middle of those so it pulled them in from some randomass horrible old X font)
<bofh>
also yes rqou, I like SimSun :P
<bofh>
(pre-empting the being yelled at)
<rqou>
meh, i don't have strong opinions about fonts
* UmbralRaptor
once again pushes symbola and GNU unifont. >_>
<bofh>
Symbola is nice, I use that as a fallback for a lot of thins.
<bofh>
things*
<Ellied>
I don't mind using fonts from our google overlords so much as other software because they tend to be happily static and you don't expose yourself to huge risks if you don't update them constantly. although I'm aware TTF is supposedly Turing-complete.
<Ellied>
Phone: shitty unicode support. Noto: supposedly installed. Full Noto: 1.4 gigabytes. Space left in /system: 1.5 gigabytes.
<SnoopJeDi>
ah screw it, I'm buying her some pens.
<bofh>
1.4G? that seems astoundingly excessively large, even if you do full localized CJKV.
<Ellied>
it might have grossly inflated emojis or something, I haven't looked at the breakdown
<UmbralRaptor>
Gotta make those fonts satsify the designer's every whim [in environments that are often unlike actual usage]
<Ellied>
oh, and it looks like the zip contains both ttfs and otfs
<Ellied>
it looks like there are tons of different styles for each localization. There are 1607 files in the directory.
<bofh>
yep, that's grossly excessive.
<Ellied>
if I were actually 300 people using my phone in parallel and knew every language in existence between us, it wouldn't be, but last time I checked that isn't the case.
<bofh>
okay point.
<Ellied>
I expect Google supplies all of these fonts in one giant bundle with multinational megacorps (like them) who want to localize their software across a ton of different alphabets in mind. As much as I like overkill just-in-case standard-spanning support of things on my machines, I don't by any means need all of these.
<bofh>
Yeah, 's what I thought, hence my comment earlier of z
<bofh>
Yeah, 's what I thought, hence my comment earlier of "wtf that seems *grossly* excessive.
<Ellied>
z
<UmbralRaptor>
Okay, that's reasonable.
<SnoopJeDi>
I *really* wish GitHub's search bar was smarter.
<Ellied>
small brain: Google search (keyword optimization, machine learning, etc). bigger brain: library card catalog (has no idea what you're talking about unless you enter the exact title or author's name). cosmic brain: wikidot search (returns zero results even if you enter an existing page title verbatim)
<Ellied>
I love how combining characters always look like they're escaping
<UmbralRaptor>
Weirdly, AndChat renders the ring stack differently in normal and text selection modes.
* egg|work|egg
pets UmbralRaptor with a cat
* UmbralRaptor
asks the cat to meow at egg|zzz|egg.
<bofh>
man, I'm kind of sad, the CryptoLocker variant I accidentally downloaded while trying to see how bad tswift's latest album is doesn't properly run under latest wine, it crashes before it can get to the encryption payload.
<UmbralRaptor>
Hah
<Ellied>
pf
<Ellied>
I feel like someone from the early 2000s could look at a lineup of everyone in our government right now and apply the standard movie "looks evil, is villain" criterion, and stand a better-than-even chance of identifying who's actually guilty of some sort of fraud.
<e_14159>
Ellied: What if you just always guess "guilty"?
<Ellied>
fair point
<Ellied>
[guilty of fraud] == [looks evil] == [is a high-ranking government official in America] might be true
<e_14159>
I am sure there are some high-ranking government officials in the US that don't look evil.
<Ellied>
I'm not sure about that
<bofh>
Okay, track#3 on Taylor Swift's newest album is...
<kmath>
<moyix> It's that time of year again! I'm looking for PhD students in security! Areas I'm most interested in: - Systems sec… https://t.co/mEM4WVznRT
<APlayer>
Uh, Ellied, how would you go about figuring out a MOSFETs pinout with a multimeter, if it is neither on the MOSFET itself nor in the datasheet?
<APlayer>
SilverFox: Is it valid? Have you checked?
<SilverFox>
I mean, 49-48 is indeed 1
<egg|work|egg>
Iskierka: O_o
<Iskierka>
it's a very specific diagram
<egg|work|egg>
have you tried this advice experimentally?
<Iskierka>
I have not had time in the 25 minutes since finding it, no
<Iskierka>
APlayer, I'd presume get a battery, connect 2GND 1V+ in all permutations, connect 1GND 2V+ in all, and write down measurements
<Iskierka>
(assuming you don't have a signal generator that can create a controlled amount more easily)
* UmbralRaptor
blinks at ??
<egg|work|egg>
!u ?
<Qboid>
U+1F98A FOX FACE (?)
<egg|work|egg>
UmbralRaptor: ?
<egg|work|egg>
!u ?
<Qboid>
U+1F71B ALCHEMICAL SYMBOL FOR SILVER (?)
<egg|work|egg>
ah
* UmbralRaptor
gives egg|work|egg a rebus, which distinctly resembles a rebus.
<kmath>
<twinfoolz> This Leon cosplayer (@maddles_t ) at #kumoricon had a real, WORKING Fantasy Gashapon and I was living for them and… https://t.co/HsVPu7OiOm
<egg>
bofh: see that's the nice thing with WG2, you can actually see what the reasoning was that led to those being inserted in the proposal
* egg
glares at the ESC
<bofh>
UmbralRaptor: totally :P
<UmbralRaptor>
Alternate interpretation: Mars during southern hemisphere spring. :D
<bofh>
UmbralRaptor: I'm going with Neptune since it prolly *is* my fav solar system planet after Earth.
<bofh>
rofl. that one is amusing too, granted.
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<egg>
!wpn bofh
* Qboid
gives bofh a Mandelbrot iron inexplicable popup that didn't used to be there and doesn't do what it used to
<bofh>
story of my fucking life
<bofh>
:P
<egg>
bofh: and so they're all part of the same revised proposal up to and including funeral urn
<bofh>
rofl
<bofh>
*boggle*
<egg>
bofh: so seems the thing is "here's a proposal with ⚢⚣⚤⚥⚪, the last one has variants ⚦⚧" entomologist: --- "that last one means hermaphrodite, but the variants don't, we can't unify" --- medievalist: "hey while we're encoding ⚦ we also need a bunch of symbols that look like it", etc.
<kmath>
<mcclure111> Monday morning: I'm going to try to get set up with Unreal's JS plugin Friday afternoon, 5:30 PM: I have created a… https://t.co/SCp87utS5t