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> <Abigail_Larson> Happy Hexennacht! 🖤👹🖤 #Walpurgisnacht https://t.co/mQ85HR7mZN
<kmath> <treelobsters> Is it Hexennacht already? Gotta remember to put out wine and cheese for Hecate, or I won't get any Hexenpresents. https://t.co/CmbhhBxWrU
<UmbralRaptor> Apparently installing Debian as part of the Linux subsystem is only 75 meg because it's missing things like manpages.
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<kmath> <doug_ellison> @Alex_Parker @elakdawalla MER lost files necessary to use the MER test bed. Then someone realized we had a backup.… https://t.co/Mecr8PO3vY
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<kmath> <zacaj_> @whitequark @mcclure111 the five stages of @whitequark: ⏎ 1. empty void ⏎ 2. hand ⏎ 3. empty void (v2) ⏎ 4. catgirl ⏎ 5. ???
<whitequark> i posted a photo of my hand a long time ago
<whitequark> everyone was really surprised
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<egg|zzz|egg> whitequark: who knew the void had hands
<egg|zzz|egg> !u ✓
<Qboid> U+2713 CHECK MARK (✓)
<kmath> <johnregehr> in the jungle environment this apex predator is king https://t.co/m8JIdGpey2
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<egg|laptop|egg> !choose CubeRoot|cbrt
<Qboid> egg|laptop|egg: Your options are: CubeRoot, cbrt. My choice: CubeRoot
<egg|laptop|egg> ;choose CubeRoot|cbrt
<kmath> egg|laptop|egg: CubeRoot
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<egg|laptop|egg> #@$%@ so all clients have shitty text rendering/text input support, except webchat which is terrible with bad connections >_<
<egg|laptop|egg> !wpn
* Qboid gives egg|laptop|egg a slow graviton rotor
<egg|laptop|egg> !wpn whitequark
* Qboid gives whitequark a projective [REDACTED]
<egg|laptop|egg> !wpn Thomas
* Qboid gives Thomas a debugger
<APlayer> !wpn egg
* Qboid gives egg a fall caliper
<egg|laptop|egg> but it's spring
<APlayer> Are there winter calipers too?
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<egg|laptop|egg> bofh: how do you compute a quotient in double-double
<egg|laptop|egg> !wpn whitequark
* Qboid gives whitequark an optical cryptocurrency
<egg|laptop|egg> !wpn -add:wpn thermocouple
<Qboid> egg|laptop|egg: Weapon added!
<egg|laptop|egg> how was that not a wpn already
<kmath> <stephentyrone> @pedantcoder @ericasadun Because in French they’d be Ordinateur jokes, duh.
<egg|laptop|egg> !u ꚠꛀ꜀
<Qboid> U+A6A0 BAMUM LETTER A (ꚠ)
<Qboid> U+A6C0 BAMUM LETTER SHU (ꛀ)
<Qboid> U+A700 MODIFIER LETTER CHINESE TONE YIN PING (꜀)
<egg|laptop|egg> bofh: ok I found a paper in french that eggsplains it
<bofh> oh yuck, that sounds slow.
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<egg|veal|egg> bofh: what sounds slow? french?
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<egg|phone|egg> Bofh: I mean multiplication is already horrible since I have no hard fma
<egg|anbo|egg> bofh: lɒl that paper describes the system on which they tested things, and they use an Alsys Ada compiler :D
* egg|anbo|egg has an alsys mug in zurich
<egg|anbo|egg> bofh: argh no the french paper doesn't give a method for the division, it just cites one from a book, and gives one for the square root
<egg|anbo|egg> bofh: "Improving Automatic Reduction of Rounding Error" might have it but I can't find a DOI
<egg|laptop|egg> !Wpn bofh
* Qboid gives bofh a scandium demi-culverin
<egg|laptop|egg> !wpn UmbralRaptop
* Qboid gives UmbralRaptop a lenticular eta principle
<egg|laptop|egg> UmbralRaptop: I might be able to do some observation tonight
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<UmbralRaptop> yay
<egg|anbo|egg> UmbralRaptop: any suggestions for stuff to the ESE?
<egg|anbo|egg> between say 22 and 02 eggtime
<egg|laptop|egg> M3, M13, Jupiter?
<egg|laptop|egg> UmbralRaptop: (bearing in mind the ANBOscope is still 60 mm because I have not yet bought a very large ANBOscope)
<egg|laptop|egg> Eggstremely Large ANBOscope
<bofh> egg|laptop|egg: no, double-double quotients :P
<bofh> egg|laptop|egg: isn't your rounding error down to like 0.5005 ULP or something?
<UmbralRaptop> Hm. Is M5 up?
<UmbralRaptop> M3 is surprisingly hard to get to in bright skies.
<UmbralRaptop> Spring is more of galaxy time than anything else.
<kmath> <elakdawalla> Why are people whose talks I don't understand always the ones who run over time....
<egg|laptop|egg> bofh: for cbrt? yes
<egg|laptop|egg> bofh: I did some double-double trickery to compute that 0.50005 without depending on mpir
<Qboid> [#1802] title: A cube root. | This is part of the effort on #1760. | https://github.com/mockingbirdnest/Principia/issues/1802
<egg|laptop|egg> UmbralRaptop: galaxy time doesn't really work with the eggstremely smol anboscope
<UmbralRaptop> Well, yes.
<UmbralRaptop> Also, M81/82, M51, M101, and probably M64 are in the wrong part of the sky.
<UmbralRaptop> Coma Bernieces(sp) is too large. =\
<iximeow> yall are in the wrong part of the earth!
<UmbralRaptop> iximeow: granted, ESL-2 would be better…
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<egg|laptop|egg> iximeow: UmbralRaptop: should we launch an ANBOscope in ESL-2
<egg|laptop|egg> !wpn whitequark
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<egg|laptop|egg> !wpn -add:wpn pot
<Qboid> egg|laptop|egg: Weapon added!
<egg|laptop|egg> !wpn iximeow
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<egg|laptop|egg> !wpn UmbralRaptop
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<Qboid> [#1805] title: Filesystem is complete starting with Preview 3 | Addresses part of #1777. | https://github.com/mockingbirdnest/Principia/issues/1805
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<UmbralRaptop> !choose moo|meow
<Qboid> UmbralRaptop: Your options are: moo, meow. My choice: moo
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<egg|cat|egg> UmbralRaptop: currently being kneaded
* UmbralRaptop pets ANBOcat.
<egg|cat|egg> UmbralRaptop: also, picture of 𒀭𒈹
<egg|cat|egg> !u 𒀭𒈹
<Qboid> U+1202D CUNEIFORM SIGN AN (𒀭)
<Qboid> U+12239 CUNEIFORM SIGN MUSH3 (𒈹)
<egg|cat|egg> um
<egg|cat|egg> !seen bofh
<Qboid> egg|cat|egg: I last saw bofh on [01.05.2018 16:04:58] in #kspacademia saying: "egg|laptop|egg: isn't your rounding error down to like 0.5005 ULP or something?"
<egg|cat|egg> (that's missing a 0!)
<egg|cat|egg> that's actually worse than the upper bound I proved :-p
<egg|cat|egg> !wpn whitequark
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<egg|cat|egg> hah
<UmbralRaptop> egg|cat|egg: twilight sky?
<egg|cat|egg> UmbralRaptop: yup, over the cliff
<egg|cat|egg> UmbralRaptop: with venus
<egg|cat|egg> !choose pet cat|observe
<egg|cat|egg> !choose pet cat|observe
<Qboid> egg|cat|egg: Your options are: pet cat, observe. My choice: observe
<egg|cat|egg> ;choose pet cat|observe
<kmath> egg|cat|egg: observe
<egg|cat|egg> stabbity choose pet cat|observe
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<UmbralRaptop> egg|cat|egg: I choose observe
<UmbralRaptop> (sorry, cat)
<UmbralRaptop> !wa 1 candela in watts
<Qboid> UmbralRaptop: convert 1 cd (candela) to watts: cd (candelas) and W (watts) are not compatible.
<UmbralRaptop> !wa 1 candela in Jy
<Qboid> UmbralRaptop: convert 1 cd (candela) to janskies: cd (candelas) and Jy (janskies) are not compatible.
<UmbralRaptop> !wa 1 candela in Jy*Hz
<Qboid> UmbralRaptop: convert 1 cd (candela) to hertz janskies: cd (candelas) and Hz Jy (hertz janskies) are not compatible.
<UmbralRaptop> stabbity
<UmbralRaptop> whitequark: output at max power is, uh, 7 mW?
* UmbralRaptop wonders how coherent the light is.
<UmbralRaptop> (or, as a laser, that's a class 3B)
<egg|cell|egg> Jupiter: bands, 4 moons
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<UmbralRaptop> Yay
<UmbralRaptop> postdocs: https://npp.usra.edu/
<egg|cat|egg> UmbralRaptop: moon rising ominously
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<egg|observing|egg> !wpn UmbralRaptop
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<UmbralRaptop> egg|observing|egg: Please do not anger the ominous moon.
<egg|observing|egg> no sigfig in sight
* egg|observing|egg pokes 𒂗𒍪 with a stick
<egg|observing|egg> UmbralRaptop: should I try finding M5
<egg|observing|egg> with the smol equatorial telescope
<UmbralRaptop> Is Libra decently high?
<UmbralRaptop> May as well.
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<UmbralRaptop> Huh, M44 hasn't set yet?
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<egg|phone|egg> It has not set but it's close to Street lights and moving an equatorial telescope is messy
<egg|phone|egg> Though tbh the East is full of moonlight
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<UmbralRaptop> The moon takes 1d4+2 damage.
<UmbralRaptop> Anyway, M13, M92, ε-Lyr, M57, M56, M29, M39?
<egg|observing|egg> UmbralRaptop: went back inside because cold, I should wear additional clothing tomorrow
<egg|observing|egg> UmbralRaptop: also crossing a door without being followed by a cat is hard
<egg|observing|egg> (ANBOcat doesn't know how to open doors so there's that at least)
<UmbralRaptop> hm
<egg|observing|egg> UmbralRaptop: also the sky is clouding up
<UmbralRaptop> Also, that annoying sky circle will rise later tomorrow.
<egg|observing|egg> true
<egg|observing|egg> (unless sigfig does something to it)
<egg|observing|egg> UmbralRaptop: when I sleep downstairs either the cat can access the corridor and scratches at the door there or it eventually jumps out the garage window and meows at the french window; I managed to prevent the cat from going into the corridor so I expect that I'll be woken up by meowing >_>
<UmbralRaptop> <_<
<egg|observing|egg> should I mail whitequark some cake https://twitter.com/whitequark/status/991441882558251008
<kmath> <whitequark> @o_galibert n-no
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<UmbralRaptop> Just as long as the cake isn't yellow.
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<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn Iskierka
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<Iskierka> ... this sounds like a bad idea waiting to happen
* egg|zzz|egg zzz
<whitequark> wtf
<whitequark> this can't be a coincidence
<UmbralRaptop> ?