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.
<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
<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
oeuf is now known as egg
<egg>
!wpn Ellied
* Qboid
gives Ellied a harmfully-considered banana
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<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
* Qboid
gives whitequark an adjoint equivalency-like Principia
<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"
<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"
<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
* QuantumRaptor
is vaguely affiliated with an orbiting RV telescope project, and finds it odd, given that wrote need to avoid pointing at earth.
<egg>
QuantumRaptor: flashy cat!
<egg>
QuantumRaptor: I'm not seeing it in the first picture though?
<egg>
!wpn QuantumRaptor
* Qboid
gives QuantumRaptor a ferromagnetic honed debugger
<egg>
!wpn whitequark
* Qboid
gives whitequark a centripetal radix
<QuantumRaptor>
egg: sadly, did not want pets. Not terrified of dromeosaurs^Wpeople, though.