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* awang
🔪 US metallurgists
<awang>
Seriously, why are you still using "Columbium"
<UmbralRaptor>
Are you sure you're not reading a paper on the X-15 from when it was flying?
<awang>
Any other old names I should know about? /s
<awang>
UmbralRaptor: No, this is a report I just got today
<awang>
From a test performed two weeks ago
<UmbralRaptor>
aaaaa
<awang>
I really hope they aren't using any old names that conflict with current ones
<awang>
Otherwise this program is going to have to ask "Did you mean Cl as in chlorine or Cl as in columbium"?
<bofh>
what the hell is Columbium?
<bofh>
Oh, Niobium. WHAT THE HELL.
* awang
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<egg|zzz|egg>
!wpn awang, bofh, UmbralRaptor, et al.
* Qboid
gives awang, bofh, UmbralRaptor, et al. a flux
<UmbralRaptor>
∇flux
<UmbralRaptor>
TFW a parent is complaining about stuff in a game being too tiny because it's column boxing 1024x768 in a 1366x768 monitor, rather than stretching it out (and the "too small" was on a monitor ~2" smaller in diagonal than the one where the game was displaying "correctly")
<UmbralRaptor>
And by "correctly" I mean stretched out.
<UmbralRaptor>
bofh: on a random note, have you found a good witch hat?
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<bofh>
UmbralRaptor: thanks for the reminder, I found 3 and am debating which to get.
<SnoopJeDi>
(which is probably for the best, since it was way too big)
<bofh>
Mine is still predominantly free conference/tech shirts and stuff from thrift stores :/
<Ellied>
cool, my battery indicator says "-nan%"
<Ellied>
acpi has no idea what's going on
<Ellied>
battery still appears to work at least
<SnoopJeDi>
energy crisis solved
<bofh>
Ellied: it means that according to ACPI battery sense, your battery is using naan bread as an electrolyte separator.
<Ellied>
that must be it
<UmbralRaptor>
Definitely that. Have you tried using a mango chutney to recharge it?
<SnoopJeDi>
bofh, I mean. ghee would probably be a pretty good insulator?
<SnoopJeDi>
for special values of "pretty good"
<bofh>
...now I'm curious what the dielectric constant at DC for ghee is.
<SnoopJeDi>
probably very comparable to garden-variety butter
<SnoopJeDi>
...I should make za'atar and bread.
<bofh>
(fun fact: trying to find out what the dielectric constant of cheez whiz is is how I found that "Dielectric Properties of Processed Cheese DC - 300MHz" paper).
<SnoopJeDi>
presumably it's for quality-assurance? :P
<bofh>
Yeah, dielectric spectroscopy of foods
<SnoopJeDi>
would make a good surrealist sci-fi scene though. "Couple the nagivational deflector into the cheese-mass" "She cannae take it captain!"
<bofh>
ROFL
<SnoopJeDi>
bofh, one of the best undergraduate presentations I've seen was on Raman spec of Phase I/II crystals in chocolate :)
<SnoopJeDi>
I almost wish we had the setup capability to do that measurement live in our physics of cooking dealie. People love watching a professional temper chocolate, heh.
<bofh>
okay that actually sounds both incrediby cool *and* tasty.
<SnoopJeDi>
it got a good turnout both this year and last
<kmath>
<Astro_Wright> Wow, PAGB and supergiant stars have *very* Dyson-spherey spectra. Check out this one. @ESAGaia puts it at 370 pc,… https://t.co/6r18wNSC7A
<bofh>
"Dyson-spherey spectra" is not a phrase one hears every day.
<kmath>
<Astro_Wright> And check out Dick Carrigan's best candidate (but not aliens) from his 2005 paper. Just a few-hundred K blackbody… https://t.co/GGtUJ5P8J3
<kmath>
<✔MarsRovers> The Martian dust storm blotting out the sun above Opportunity has continued to intensify. It blankets a quarter of… https://t.co/1xf18VW6yR
<UmbralRaptop>
The TSA checkpoint at SAF definitely felt like it was missing a person. Also, seating afterwards suggests that they're struggling with jets as large as an ERJ-145.
<bofh>
uhm. that is not exactly what I would call a large jet
<UmbralRaptop>
Incidentally, I haven't seen any enterprise software ads here.
<bofh>
Oh that explains everything.
<UmbralRaptop>
Eggsactly.
<egg|work|egg>
UmbralRaptop: are you sure this is an airport
<bofh>
Can't have a functional airport w/o enterprise software ads.
<egg|work|egg>
eggsactly
<UmbralRaptop>
I'm not sure that they've upgraded from when DC-3s and Boeing 247s flew out of it.
<bofh>
from my experience with SAF, that's likely accurate
<UmbralRaptop>
Whee, deplaning. apparently there's a leak, and they need to replace an o-ring.
<kmath>
<vacant3rdman> I think PlaneWave Instruments win the "biggest thing on display in the #SPIEastro exhibition" prize with this teles… https://t.co/ECbT2ezgl7
<kmath>
<eggleroy> 🌑 Dedekind, the new release of Principia, is out, plugging an embarrassing memory leak, and bringing with it a patc… https://t.co/uBenrlTrjE
<kmath>
<elakdawalla> Zurek: Opportunity is in a windy place, and as long as dust isn't being lifted locally, the wind will actually clea… https://t.co/YymxRjlAAF