egg|nomz|egg 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> egg|nomz|egg: generally if your eyes are dewing over, that's not the weather. | <ferram4> I shall beat my problems to death with an engineer.
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<kmath> <ferretthimself> We have decided that the gender-neutral version of succubus/incubus is an omnibus.
<kmath> <SamSykesSwears> I have but one request this Christmas, guys. Take the #WarOnChristmas hashtag and fill it with accounts of the horr… https://t.co/jH3XYNvtmv
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<kmath> <gaileyfrey> Y'all ever wonder about Santa Claus' role in spreading pathogens between far-flung communities?
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<kmath> <mwpeczuh> SPIT TAKE: student invokes "hydrogen-boning" to explain stereoselectivity of a reaction in draft proposal
<bofh> Spittake is accurate.
<SnoopJeDi> "Sorry, I don't date cis compounds"
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<Ellied> it's actually tempting to use USB connectors as generic differential signal inputs
<Ellied> plenty of passband, reasonably common, could have 5V power supply in the same connector easily
<Ellied> would also beat sitting here and trying to tell if the engineer who drew this fucking datasheet was using inches or [prefix]meters, because they sure didn't specify
<whitequark> Ellied: USB-C.
<Ellied> yeah that would be perfect almost
<Ellied> only almost because it would be fairly challenging to solder with what I've got here in terms of tools
<Ellied> it would also be very silly and frustrating because the SiPM amplifier will almost certainly have SMA outputs
<Ellied> notably not differential
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<oeuf> !wpn whitequark and котя
* Qboid gives whitequark and котя a Максутов-Cassegrain variety which vaguely resembles an isomorphism
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<egg> !wpn Ellied
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<egg|work|egg> what the hell is my phone doing
<kmath> <whitequark> *kicks down the door of an ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG14 meeting, panting* did someone order a bucket of vowels https://t.co/qEBnkxmhPe
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<UmbralRaptor> egg|work|egg: was it pushed to page 2 by cow stories? https://twitter.com/kevinschawinski/status/938373183996153857
<kmath> <kevinschawinski> Switzerland: where the election of a new president isn’t front page news. ??
<egg|work|egg> UmbralRaptor: probably
<egg|work|egg> !wpn whitequark
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<egg|work|egg> !wpn UmbralRaptor
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<UmbralRaptor> !wpn egg|work|egg
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<kmath> <elakdawalla> It's not good when your local landscape has the colors of Saturn's moon Titan. https://t.co/cicK6v06rg
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<egg|work|egg> whitequark: how is котя doing?
<whitequark> egg|work|egg: fine. she's slightly calmer these days
<whitequark> though she still hates эта хуйня with a passion
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<kmath> <BBW_BFF> Mongolian paleontologist Altangerel Perle in the embrace of the forearms of Deinocheirus mirificus https://t.co/TiIqwQz3xY
<SnoopJeDi> I hope her foot is okay :(
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<bofh> https://twitter.com/andrechemist/status/938409853462155264 a good summary of today so far >_>
<kmath> <andrechemist> Hey I just met you and this is crazy but I'm your student so can you teach me the entire semester in the two days w… https://t.co/nf0NaqnvNi
<Qboid> 2d 0h 0m 0s left to event #17: et al./Falcon 9 v1.2 [at 2017-12-08 18:20:00]. Say '!kountdown 17' for details
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<egg> !wpn whitequark
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<egg> !wpn Fiora
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<bofh> oh man salmiakki are *tasty*
* egg stabs the word "locale" with a cat
<kmath> <TucoTheCat> https://t.co/RjBezu4jqq
<SnoopJeDi> "Ammonium chloride gives salty liquorice an astringent, salty taste[2] (hence the name), which has been described as "tongue-numbing"[3] and "almost-stinging""
<SnoopJeDi> well okey dokey then
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<bofh> SnoopJeDi: I like to describe it as "imagine liquorice but covered w/the stuff you use to clean soldering iron tips"
<SnoopJeDi> lmao
<QuantumRaptor> eek
<kmath> <mhoye> Trying to buy a phone is making me super-sad. As far as I can tell if you care about timely software updates, there's... 2 choices?
<SnoopJeDi> re: that bitcoin tweet making the rounds, I asked some unwise questions last night https://twitter.com/Ctzn5/status/938232036740886528
<kmath> <Ctzn5> @jgerity i guess another way to put it is, you are not credible on CC / resource use unless you know what the Karda… https://t.co/U2ljpxEjqW
<SnoopJeDi> OTOH it's not really shocking that bitcoin enthusiasts are enthusiastic about bitcoin (or that meteorologists are enthusiastic about climate)
<Ellied> QuantumRaptor: meanwhile, if you want a phone with an OS that is not literally always trying to stab you in the back for money, you have zero choices. One very poor one whenever the Librem 5 comes out.
<QuantumRaptor> Ellied: I don't suppose that there are laptops with cellular data options?
<Ellied> There are, but those have neither the battery life or portability that people expect from smartphones
<Ellied> that is to say, that they expect you to have in your smartphone
<QuantumRaptor> "battery life"
* QuantumRaptor mutters something about 4 hours screen on time being good.
<QuantumRaptor> SnoopJeDi: eep. Back of the envelope calcs that I've done are that a model S's carbon footprint is comparable to a gasoline burner at ~80% coal/20% nuclear equivalent grid.
<QuantumRaptor> And, well, model S, so it's unaffordable for most Americans. Maybe in richer countries?
<SnoopJeDi> I have very limited patience for futurism in any flavor, really
<SnoopJeDi> And also don't understand bitcoin or any other currency
<QuantumRaptor> The use cases assume a small poorly managed country from what I've been able to gather.
<QuantumRaptor> Quite aside from the cognitive load of juggling more currencies.
<QuantumRaptor> Well, partially aside.
<SnoopJeDi> the extrapolation was just a bad idea
<SnoopJeDi> without "here's a retroactive estimate using the same methodology/data sources, look, it's an established trend" which...I would assume is a thing one can do?
<SnoopJeDi> I couldn't find it though
<SnoopJeDi> I halfheartedly tried to explain cryptokitties to my labmate at lunch
<SnoopJeDi> but very quickly hit a wall because I don't know anything about it because I try to set my learning τ for crypto about as long as I can get away with
<whitequark> crypto = cryptography.
<whitequark> crypto ≠ cryptocurrencies.
<SnoopJeDi> the statement stands
<SnoopJeDi> I've had "A (relatively easy to understand) primer on elliptic curve cryptography" bookmarked for...2 years now?
<Ellied> QuantumRaptor: I guess it's specifically the ability to have it sitting in your pocket for an arbitrary amount of time and then wake up at a second's notice, which most laptops still can't manage
<QuantumRaptor> fair enough
<SnoopJeDi> whitequark, the inverse drives me nuts with "cyber" instead of "cyberwarfare"
<QuantumRaptor> cyberwar monday
<kmath> <aussiastronomer> What are YOU doing this Sunday, at 1:38pm PST? Wherever you are - step outside and #WaveAtKepler!! Maybe organize a… https://t.co/mULc1hrfl9
<SnoopJeDi> wow, that snuck up fast
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<egg> QuantumRaptor: flashy cat!
<egg> QuantumRaptor: I'm not seeing it in the first picture though?
<egg> !wpn QuantumRaptor
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<egg> !wpn whitequark
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<QuantumRaptor> egg: sadly, did not want pets. Not terrified of dromeosaurs^Wpeople, though.
<egg> !wpn Fiora
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<QuantumRaptor> egg: blarg, it isn't.
<QuantumRaptor> removed.
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<kmath> <FioraAeterna> @jennschiffer how wrong can you be! it's SIM-DEE
<egg> do you mean long vs. short [i]?
<egg> !wpn bofh
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<egg> !seen котя
<Qboid> egg: Value cannot be null.
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<egg|zzz|egg> Qboid: um
<egg|zzz|egg> !seen egg
<QuantumRaptor> I think my advisor is collecting grad students like cats.
<Qboid> egg|zzz|egg: I last saw egg on [06.12.2017 23:52:40] in #kspacademia saying: "!seen котя"
<egg|zzz|egg> !seen test_test_test
<Qboid> egg|zzz|egg: Value cannot be null.
<egg|zzz|egg> huh, it used to say "I haven't seen the user" iirc?
* QuantumRaptor ? Ubuntu
* QuantumRaptor somehow managed to get a half-broken java install?
<QuantumRaptor> Anyway, astroimagej works for one student now, but not another.