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>
<justabloodygame> Hey, Death! It's your cousin, Marvin Penalty. Know that new sound you were looking for? Well listen to this. *holds… https://t.co/kHbY9FIHlR
<UmbralRaptor>
2017 o_O
<UmbralRaptor>
(the New Scientist article seems like something that would make colorlessfermion go ballistic.
<bofh>
........PRESS RELEASE from the republicans: "This Act: - Provides Support for Graduate Students (by continuing to exempt the value of reduced tuition from taxes)"
<bofh>
literally a "This Act: - Doesn't Deliberately Fuck You Over, so it's a point in its favour"
<bofh>
(like I mean I get the use for portable wifi-enabled storage, but how many people do you think will just carry it with them everywhere and leave the AP unpassworded?)
<egg>
UmbralRaptor: "colorlessfermion"
* egg
wonders whether that pings said fermion
<egg>
!wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid
gives UmbralRaptor a rhombic ☢
<egg>
!wpn bofh
* Qboid
gives bofh a sharp snake which vaguely resembles a ruby
<kmath>
<rqou_> @whitequark Does this mean that I can finally get a mech that runs a twice-trojanned operating system and that can… https://t.co/aiFlkHQT2v
<kmath>
<NASAJPL> #TheLastJedi? Nope. Check out the JEDI instrument on @NASAJuno. It senses the Force of charged particles around Ju… https://t.co/xc8Yo9uyyH
<kmath>
<stephentyrone> A personal note to The Guy Who Always Pipes In To Tell Us That GA Is A Replacement For Linear Algebra: I love your… https://t.co/9Oo2BidAYj
<rqou>
UmbralRaptor: can't find a video clip of it, but it's a reference to Code Geass
<kmath>
<johnregehr> dispatch from the land of negligible humidity: this dude keeps shooting me dirty looks when petting him builds up e… https://t.co/3jRwhSJGvs
* UmbralRaptor
? sleep
<egg>
!wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid
gives UmbralRaptor a scream
<egg>
!wpn Sarbian
* Qboid
gives Sarbian a non-conforming parabola
<egg>
!wpn ferram4
* Qboid
gives ferram4 a GDPR-compliant square
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* UmbralRaptor
has been using a lot of those this year.
<UmbralRaptor>
<egg|pettingcats|egg>
<awang>
GDPR?
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<UmbralRaptor>
awang: screams
<UmbralRaptor>
hm. MARAC is at UMKC on April 13&14 this year.
* UmbralRaptor
gives egg a 1216 Å line.
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<egg|afk|egg>
!acr -add:GDPR General Data Protection Regulation
<Qboid>
egg|afk|egg: I added the explanation for this acronym.
<egg|afk|egg>
awang: ^
<egg|afk|egg>
UmbralRaptor: pettingcats?
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<egg|afk|egg>
(will be an ANBO next week though, so there's that)
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<BPlayer>
Internet delay chat?
<awang>
MARAC?
<Qboid>
awang: [MARAC] => Mid American Regional Astrophysics Conference
<awang>
UMKC?
<Qboid>
awang: [UMKC] => University of Missouri, Kansas City
<awang>
Also, what's the inside joke I'm missing for ANBO?
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<egg|afk|egg>
!tell ferram4 FYI I found no issues with the new Principia-compatible way of applying forces; do you plan on cutting a new release with that soon?
<Qboid>
egg|afk|egg: I'll redirect this as soon as they are around.
<Iskierka>
I only found sheep and think the telescope needs adjusting for good focus
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<ferram4>
egg very soon
<Qboid>
ferram4: egg|afk|egg left a message for you in #kspacademia [16.12.2017 15:26:09]: "FYI I found no issues with the new Principia-compatible way of applying forces; do you plan on cutting a new release with that soon?"
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<egg>
ferram4: good news!
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<egg>
ferram4: unrelated: in the upcoming version of Principia, you can no longer go through a celestial unharmed by warping sufficiently fast like in stock
<bofh>
egg: rofl. but that sounds like a feature :P
<egg>
ferram4: it turns out that the vessels that came through such an encounter have their integrator state garbled, so the easiest fix is just to do the collision check that the game should have done :-p
<kmath>
<bofh453> Very carefully & cautiously cleaned up a small spill of RFNA... then tossed gloves into the nearest bin, full of ra… https://t.co/PoBpShoP5X
<SnoopJeDi>
?
<Iskierka>
@ Fiora, it came up briefly in another chat, so I'm curious, how does Atelier Iris compare with most of the Atelier games?
* UmbralRaptor
abuses school WiFi to update 3 computers.
<UmbralRaptor>
Also, I really hope that apartment complex I was in in 2011 wins the "worst wiring" competition. >_>;;
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<UmbralRaptor>
(And by win, I mean there were deaths)
<kmath>
<whitequark> #catcognition we have this toy and it just took me around five minutes to teach our other cat that two can play thi… https://t.co/TMO7acL3Ej
<whitequark>
yes
<whitequark>
it's not эта хуйня anymore because it's so large
<whitequark>
instead, it's порошок or кот.
<whitequark>
that's right our cats are called "cat" and "kitty"
<egg>
:D
<egg>
whitequark: oh it's large now? how large compared to котя
<egg>
rqou: *sob* pīnyīn "zh" is pronounced (according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Mandarin) like chữ quốc ngữ "tr", "j" like "ch", "sh" like (southern) "s", ... romanizations are terrible :'(
<Ellied>
bofh: I wasn't around to see if you corrected me, but yeah, I was wrong about dipole antennas being inverse-cube a week or so ago or whatever that was. I was making some assumptions based on a very incomplete understanding of electrodynamics.
<egg>
!wpn Ellied
* Qboid
gives Ellied a Helmholtz dynamo
<soundnfury>
!wpn egg
* Qboid
gives egg a defective pump with a triangulation attachment
<whitequark>
useful
<Ellied>
presumably the relevant characteristics are not what I was assuming for an oscillating radiator as opposed to a set of static fields?
<soundnfury>
Ellied: maybe you were working out the near-field (I can well believe that might be inverse-cube) rather than the far-field?
<kmath>
<johnregehr> @whitequark cat cognition: Laz doesn't understand that I can't see in the dark and flops down in front of me, takin… https://t.co/EwwJOyMXTg
<kmath>
<astronomolly> Well there was that time I made a gas that smelled remarkably like almond extract in a chemistry lab and didn't und… https://t.co/Cl8YwJEyh1
<bofh>
Ellied: soundnfury: yeah I think you were mixing up near & far fields, since the former does decay inverse-cubed.
<Ellied>
cyanide doesn't even smell like sweet almonds, does it? just bitter almonds, which AIUI are much different
<Ellied>
IIRC sweet almond smell is some aldehyde or other
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* egg|cell|egg
gives Ellied a density matrix
* soundnfury
gives egg|cell|egg a destiny matrix
<Ellied>
makes sense, in near field you'd see a dipole as two separate thingies, far away it would just look like a radiant point source
<Ellied>
I thought about that right after I said, but had to chew on it for a while
<soundnfury>
Ellied: I think it's more about the standing vs. propagating wave
<soundnfury>
but idk, I never properly studied E-M
<Ellied>
there was some scene in the Metal Gear Solid game I watched my friend play in high school where the snake dude has to make it through a hallway which is full of microwave emitters as some kind of bullshit denial system, and all I could think was "that hallway does not look like a good RF resonant cavity" and "those little rotating tuning forks do not look like efficient radiators"
<Ellied>
that being said I do rather like the concept of high-power RF antennas as obstacles in a game
<bofh>
Ellied: benzaldehyde, yes.
<bofh>
Ellied: I'm now imagining a puzzle game where the goal is to create a waveguide out of whatever scrap you have that will successfully give you a path thru the hi-power RF :P
<Ellied>
better for D&D than an FPS, though. "Radiant Dipole (5th level Evocation) - You spread your arms wide, forming an efficient transmitter of wavelength equal to twice your height. All creatures within 500 feet of you take 20d6*sin(θ)/r^2 RF damage, where θ is the angle of bearing to the creature from the axis you define and r is the distance from you to the creature in feet."
<soundnfury>
xD
<Ellied>
some game balance factors required
<bofh>
LOL
<soundnfury>
What if I make a yagi with my hands? Is that higher-level?
<Ellied>
yes
<soundnfury>
trouble is, everyone'll just walk around wearing maille as a faraday cage :/
<soundnfury>
though if you can get big enough currents to flow, it might weld itself together ;)
<Ellied>
right, "Heat Metal" is definitely an RF spell
<Ellied>
And I'll say it yet again, D&D would be wonderful with all kinds of silly damage types
<soundnfury>
Ellied: I miss D&D. We had a game running after-hours at work for a while, but then our GM left the company :(
<Ellied>
"acid damage" ok fine, but where's our "alkaline damage," "oxidation damage," "fluorination damage" etc
<Ellied>
aw man that sucks
<Ellied>
my robotics friends had a game going but everyone lost interest
<soundnfury>
how do you protect yourself from oxidation damage?
<soundnfury>
Damage reduction.
<Ellied>
G R O N E
<Ellied>
i love it
<soundnfury>
:)
<Ellied>
"each creature in a 40-foot cone takes 8d10 fire damage and 50d4 fluorination damage. You must make a DEX save or take 2d8 fluorination damage."
<Ellied>
(that'd be the ClF3-enhanced Burning Hands)