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>
<mattieuMattieu> @Diraccone @yonatanzunger @SwiftOnSecurity @michaelgat This is the thing that I find most interesting - the physics… https://t.co/dDPV20MjTJ
<UmbralRaptop>
… does this mean busybox is not POSIX compliant?
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<bofh>
UmbralRaptop: no, b/c you *can* compile in ed(1) into busybox, just this vendor didn't.
* UmbralRaptop
wonders if it would be easier to find a dvd-rw, rather than troubleshoot these us booting problems.
<bofh>
that momemt when you discover that you have the multitrack to All Star but not the full song on this machine & decide to just master it yourself instead of downloading the full song.
<bofh>
UmbralRaptop: prolly, USB boot on older mobos is a barely work8ing clusterfuck.
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<UmbralRaptop>
2007 was. decade after USB came out, so I'd expect it to work…
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<bofh>
UmbralRaptop: so *booting* off things other than CD was broken for so damn long on desktop motherboards IME
<UmbralRaptop>
If I treat it as a livecd, Debian boots up fine. Installing breaks partway in.
<bofh>
Huh. Interesting, it's the booting part that breaks IME, if it actually passes that stage then it should be good. wtf...
<kmath>
<Nystre> "i thought this was art therapy" ⏎ "no, it is rat therapy" i say, opening the cages and unleashing billions of rats u… https://t.co/WWrCm5dqAl
<egg|zzz|egg>
so Mirabell is the only industrial one allowed to be spherical, but "Die Konditorei Fürst selbst sagt zu zwei Konkurrenzprodukten: „Die Mirabell-Kugel ist genauso wenig echt wie die von Reber.“"
<egg|zzz|egg>
Fürst say they're as little real as the Reber ones :-p
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<bofh>
LOL
<bofh>
I should get my hands on some of the Fürst ones.
<egg|zzz|egg>
UmbralRaptop: okay focuser + eyepiece half the length of the main scope, giant finders are weird :-p
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<UmbralRaptop>
Well, the main scope also has a folded light path.
<egg|zzz|egg>
UmbralRaptop: no I mean the main body of the focuser
<egg|zzz|egg>
s/focuser/finder/
<Qboid>
egg|zzz|egg meant to say: UmbralRaptop: no I mean the main body of the finder
<UmbralRaptop>
that does look silly.
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<egg|zzz|egg>
;rpn 330 32 /
<kmath>
egg|zzz|egg: 10.3125
<egg|zzz|egg>
UmbralRaptop: 10x80 finder, 70° apparent field of view
<UmbralRaptop>
ꙮ_ꙮ
<egg|zzz|egg>
UmbralRaptop: with the smaller eyepiece it was 13x80 50°
<kmath>
<eggleroy> (T(s?j|[xšr])|(Ts?c|C)h|Č|Ç|C[sz]?)[eê]b[îiıyư](s[jz]|sch?|[sc]h|[šșşsx])[ëéeo](ff?|[vwp]) ⏎ ⏎ Consistency: there is a… https://t.co/aR9v3paUYM
<SnoopJeDi>
egg|zzz|egg, да
<SnoopJeDi>
I've only ever seen Chebyshev, myself
<SnoopJeDi>
Ahh yea I remember that megaregex
<SnoopJeDi>
bofh, also someone threw down the "submit a PR" gauntlet on my guided-UX font picker idea. Not sure if I'm flattered or terrified by the idea of trying to implement something in such a large codebase
<bofh>
SnoopJeDi: like that's a *very* nontrivial change of high complexity, since they're basically asking you to generate a full UI for font picking and then integrate that into GIMP. Not, like, impossible but you need quite a bit of experience with GTK+, at least some knowledge of how to extract font properties and what they sensibly mean, and experience with the GIMP codebase.
<bofh>
There are maybe 3-5 people offhand that I trust would be capable of doing such a thing and doing it well (Behdad Esfahbod, Khaled Hosny, and the 3 core members of the FreeType team, and even then I'm not 100% sure about the last of those).
<bofh>
It's very much a team project type thing.
<bofh>
s/such a thing/such a thing alone/
<Qboid>
bofh meant to say: There are maybe 3-5 people offhand that I trust would be capable of doing such a thing alone and doing it well (Behdad Esfahbod, Khaled Hosny, and the 3 core members of the FreeType team, and even then I'm not 100% sure about the last of those).
* bofh
waves to mlbaker
* mlbaker
waves to bofh
<bofh>
lemme guess, you stumbled upon this place by finding thomas-whitequark logs of me and egg|zzz|egg trying to make sense of symplectic forms? :P
<egg|zzz|egg>
mlbaker: there are catpics occasionally
<egg|zzz|egg>
whitequark: are there any recent catpics?
<SnoopJeDi>
bofh, yea, even if I were in a place where I felt okay picking up a task that large, it'd be intimidating. Learning enough GTK+ to prototype a UI could be fun, though.
<iximeow>
hi mlbaker
<iximeow>
egg: remind me later to get catpics in an irc-friendly form
<iximeow>
the cat has decided she REALLY likes one of my bags and is a hermitcat
<egg|zzz|egg>
cat!
<iximeow>
(to the point that she does not want to sit in my lap, but will happy sit in my lap if i put her in the bag on my lap)
<egg|zzz|egg>
Ꙩ_ꙩ
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<egg|zzz|egg>
mlbaker: also to clarify, Qboid is Thomas's bot
<kmath>
<bofh453> @Kortney @bacondropped <@geofft> brb, starting a defense contractor called Carpet Bombadil
<bofh>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowing_up "This article is about the mathematical concept of blowing up. For information about the physical/chemical process, see Explosion."
<kmath>
<whitequark> @FioraAeterna unfortunately it also makes you noticeably dumber
<iximeow>
and something else that just ****loves**** to scan through *physical memory* because ??? for a code pattern that i *think* is the start of _strnicmp?
* iximeow
coughs
<iximeow>
and those are the ones i can talk about
<bofh>
iximeow: I like how I can't tell if "ppengine.sys" is malware or antivirus
<bofh>
(but I repeat myself)
<iximeow>
i'm looking forward to the kaspersky driver i know i'll find
<egg|zzz|egg>
UmbralRaptop: um exactly how redshifted are you
<UmbralRaptop>
egg|zzz|egg: IIRC, the galaxy that is my twitter/masto avatar is at z = 0.04
<whitequark>
egg|zzz|egg: valproate does that it's a known thing
<egg|zzz|egg>
whitequark: how does it work, and to what eggstent?
<whitequark>
no one is really sure
<whitequark>
but it's a GABAergic so probably related to that
<whitequark>
and it makes me dumber enough I occasionally struggle with code I can otherwise write or read easily
<egg|zzz|egg>
does it cause one to make eggpuns
<whitequark>
dunno, maybe as much as being very slightly high on weed
<egg|zzz|egg>
whitequark: huh, I have never noticed anything like that
<egg|zzz|egg>
whitequark: what dosage are we talking about here if that's not too indiscrete?
<whitequark>
I was on uhhh
<whitequark>
500mg/day? maybe up to 900mg/day
<whitequark>
that's comparatively small, in the typical valproate use patterns
<egg|zzz|egg>
yeah that's smaller than me (used to be 500 morning 500 evening, now 500 morning 300 evening)
<whitequark>
what for? maybe it only makes BD people dumber
<egg|zzz|egg>
epilepsy (don't think I've had any symptoms other than headaches, but I have those pretty consistently in the absence of депакотя)
<egg|zzz|egg>
!wpn whitequark
* Qboid
gives whitequark a practical harmfully-considered crank
<egg|zzz|egg>
whitequark: oh gods the non-ASCII identifiers thread now has more than 300 comments
<kmath>
<FreeLeaf> @eisoch @BabelStone It is certain that the character is a variant of 猁, as used in Qing manuscript, and it is still… https://t.co/nEcm8U30NI
<kmath>
<kay314159> @psi_organa She found a mistake soon after vN’s 1932 work, and her argument was redone by Bell in the 60s without k… https://t.co/aOhqCy1MXH
<UmbralRaptop>
stabbity
<UmbralRaptop>
(uh, @psi_organa is locked right now)
<bofh>
LIKE THAT'S NOT A TRIVIAL THING TO OVERLOOK
<kmath>
<kay314159> People need to learn about Grete Hermann’s disproof of von Neumann’s no-hidden-variable ‘theorem.’ ⏎ ⏎ Her work was ba… https://t.co/OFI5ROhnYJ
<kmath>
<bofh453> I cry about how much more complex analysis assignments and apparently rebooting the following spreadsheet spreadshe… https://t.co/Cp6bZkynVY