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> <happykitten62> Perhaps this is why it is named a catalyst: just imagine a fat cat jumps onto the activation barrier and in turn, f… https://t.co/ZsGpu87iOl
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<UmbralRaptor> So, uh, the Anaconda Curse works a bit differently in my case.
* UmbralRaptor needs to figure out how to explain to their advisor that this is a single user solution, and does not generalize.
* UmbralRaptor feels anxious.
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<kmath> <_Ninji> Today’s mood is: a receipt printer spitting out HTTP request headers https://t.co/OdnNvY6t57
<UmbralRaptor> So, one of our undergrads may be coming down with impostor syndrome.
<bofh> I'd be kinda surprised if they don't, tbh :(
<bofh> also, WTF Cygnus X-1
<UmbralRaptor> What did it do now?
<bofh> oh I just learned about the magnitude of its x-ray flux just now
<UmbralRaptor> HMXBs are visible at nontrivial redshifts, I think?
<bofh> HMXB?
<Qboid> bofh: [HMXB] => High Mass X-ray Binary
<bofh> oh, high-mass
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<egg|phone|egg> !wpn whitequark
* Qboid gives whitequark a venetian polytrope
<egg|phone|egg> !Wpn коте
* Qboid gives коте a tardigrade
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<egg|zzz|egg> whitequark: any котяnews?
<egg|zzz|egg> or котяpics
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<egg|work|egg> !wpn whitequark
* Qboid gives whitequark a saker
<awang> Wait, people still use (t)csh?
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<UmbralRaptor> awang: wait until we tell you about FORTRAN!
<bofh> ^
<awang> Hey, Fortran isn't *that* obscure
<awang> Is it?
<UmbralRaptor> I'm not sure people outside of academia realize that there are versions more recent than F77.
<awang> Wait, Fortran is used outside of academia?
<awang> Unless HPC doesn't count as academia
<bofh> Scientific computing doesn't *always* occur only in academia...
<awang> It sounds so academia-ish though
<egg|work|egg> bofh: today in "finding bugs because I'm the kind of person who jumps on any opportunity to use non-ASCII syntax", https://ssl.icu-project.org/trac/ticket/13838
<egg|work|egg> !wpn whitequark
* Qboid gives whitequark a yagi Mew
<UmbralRaptor> high gain cat noises
<bofh> egg|work|egg: oh I'm pretty sure there's a literal fuckton of bugs that you can find by using non-ASCII syntax in places where it's allowed but rarely if ever used.
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<egg|work|egg> bofh: I mean it's not allowed here, it's probably just that something fancy turned != into ≠ in the docs
<bofh> lmfao
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<UmbralRaptor> hah
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<UmbralRaptor> "Use your Mason Net ID and password to access your account and complete your profile to start searching jobs today! Completing your profile helps recruiters find you, and helps Handshake learn your job preferences and career interests."
<UmbralRaptor> Not sure if scam, or legit.
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<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid gives UmbralRaptor a Maxwell-Boltzmann denormal
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn bofh
* Qboid gives bofh a threaded mangled bolter
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn whitequark
* Qboid gives whitequark a temperate grin which strongly resembles a cardinal
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn rqou
* Qboid gives rqou a flying pen with a projector attachment
<awang> !wpn -add:wpn cave
<Qboid> awang: Weapon added!
BPlayer is now known as APlayer
<UmbralRaptor> !wpn -add:adj sh
<Qboid> UmbralRaptor: Adjective added!
<UmbralRaptor> !wpn -add:adj bash
<Qboid> UmbralRaptor: Adjective added!
<UmbralRaptor> !wpn -add:adj csh
<Qboid> UmbralRaptor: Adjective added!
<UmbralRaptor> !wpn -add:adj tcsh
<Qboid> UmbralRaptor: Adjective added!
<UmbralRaptor> !wpn -add:adj zsh
<Qboid> UmbralRaptor: Adjective added!
<UmbralRaptor> !wpn -add:wpn shell
<Qboid> UmbralRaptor: Weapon already added!
<UmbralRaptor> !wpn egg|zzz|egg
* Qboid gives egg|zzz|egg a type-punned involution-like class
<awang> !wpn -add:wpn alias
<Qboid> awang: Weapon added!
<awang> !wpn -add:adj strict
<Qboid> awang: Adjective already added!
<UmbralRaptor> !wpn awang
* Qboid gives awang a Perl resonance
<awang> !wpn -add:wpn plasma
<Qboid> awang: Weapon added!
<awang> !wpn -add:adj deep
<Qboid> awang: Adjective added!
<awang> !wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid gives UmbralRaptor a wafer
* UmbralRaptor slices up the wafer with a diamond saw, and etches poisons onto it in intricate designs.
* awang attaches a sub-ambient cooler to the wafer and overclocks it to 5GHz
<SnoopJeDi> whoa, plasma wasn't already in there?
<awang> !wpn -add:wpn gas
<Qboid> awang: Weapon added!
<awang> !wpn -add:wpn liquid
<Qboid> awang: Weapon added!
<awang> !wpn -add:wpn solid
<Qboid> awang: Weapon added!
<SnoopJeDi> !wpn -add:adj plasmonic
<Qboid> SnoopJeDi: Adjective already added!
<SnoopJeDi> o.O
<awang> !wpn -add:wpn Bose-Einstein condensate
<Qboid> awang: Weapon added!
<awang> !wpn -add:wpn superfluid
<Qboid> awang: Weapon added!
<awang> !wpn -add:wpn superconductor
<Qboid> awang: Weapon added!
<awang> !wpn -add:adj degenerate
<Qboid> awang: Adjective already added!
<UmbralRaptor> !wpn SnoopJeDi
* Qboid gives SnoopJeDi an electroweak mesolect
<SnoopJeDi> !wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid gives UmbralRaptor a Legendre reader-writer pump
<awang> !wpn SnoopJeDi
* Qboid gives SnoopJeDi a soft theatre
<SnoopJeDi> !wpn awang
* Qboid gives awang a cotangent Gudermannian
* SnoopJeDi takes a nap in the theatre
<awang> !wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid gives UmbralRaptor a curium non-joiner
<awang> !wpn -add:wpn television
<Qboid> awang: Weapon added!
<awang> !wpn -add:adj plasma
<Qboid> awang: Adjective already added!
<awang> !wpn -add:adj solid
<Qboid> awang: Adjective already added!
<awang> !wpn -add:adj liquid
<Qboid> awang: Adjective already added!
<awang> !wpn -add:adj gas
<Qboid> awang: Adjective added!
<awang> !wpn -remove:adj gas
<Qboid> awang: Adjective removed!
<awang> !wpn -add:adj gaseous
<Qboid> awang: Adjective already added!
* awang looks at a 2018 application requiring a 2005 VC++ redistributable
<awang> Would updating really break that many things?
<UmbralRaptor> That's the sort of question you regret asking.
<egg|zzz|egg> https://twitter.com/FioraAeterna/status/1008776099352883200 Nyankpa as spoken in Norway
<kmath> <FioraAeterna> for non-americans: ⏎ ⏎ "californian" is a weird dialect of english, which contains phrases like this: ⏎ ⏎ "yeah no" --> m… https://t.co/0Q2rEqkiLT
<egg|zzz|egg> !u ‾⎺⎻─⎼⎽_
<Qboid> U+203E OVERLINE (‾)
<Qboid> U+23BA HORIZONTAL SCAN LINE-1 (⎺)
<Qboid> U+23BB HORIZONTAL SCAN LINE-3 (⎻)
<Qboid> U+2500 BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT HORIZONTAL (─)
<Qboid> U+23BC HORIZONTAL SCAN LINE-7 (⎼)
<Qboid> U+23BD HORIZONTAL SCAN LINE-9 (⎽)
<Qboid> U+005F LOW LINE (_)
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: stabby graphs https://twitter.com/barrelshifter/status/1009100847123316736
<kmath> <barrelshifter> i took this photo on april 4 and cannot remember why https://t.co/3hMyvmXW0l
<UmbralRaptor> Yay, stab
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<egg|zzz|egg> !choose retweet котяpics|sleep
<Qboid> egg|zzz|egg: Your options are: retweet котяpics, sleep. My choice: sleep
<kmath> <sharecats> catfishing https://t.co/jOqsh7xM4j
<egg|zzz|egg> cc whitequark
<kmath> <ecksdee_xd> @marcan42 Just wait until you hear about ARMv8.3's FJCVTZS instruction. "Floating-point Javascript convert to signe… https://t.co/WhhKM0Xv6H
<iximeow> didn't want to know about this instruction
<bofh> iximeow: sadly, it makes sense (and honestly doesn't use that much die space, it's mostly just slightly different semantics.
<bofh> +)*
<bofh> 18:18:46 < awang> Would updating really break that many things?
<bofh> 18:36:43 <@UmbralRaptor> That's the sort of question you regret asking.
<bofh> seconding UmbralRaptor on this one
<bofh> TIL U+23BA
<iximeow> it makes sense but that doesn't mean i like it
<iximeow> :P
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn bofh
* Qboid gives bofh a transitive field extension
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid gives UmbralRaptor a caramelized paywall-like overture
<UmbralRaptor> !u u+23ba
<Qboid> U+23BA HORIZONTAL SCAN LINE-1 (⎺)
<UmbralRaptor> HORIZONTAL SCAN LIME-1
<egg|zzz|egg> !u 🝁
<Qboid> U+1F741 ALCHEMICAL SYMBOL FOR QUICK LIME (🝁)
<bofh> What's the alchemical symbol for SLOW LIME, or for LEISURELY LIME, or for ALLEGRO ANDANTE LIME?
<UmbralRaptor> That's just a lime with a much higher melting point. Compare quicksilver vs sliver
<egg|zzz|egg> !pet котю
* Qboid pets котю
* UmbralRaptor 🔪 tcsh.
<bofh> Appropriate.
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<iximeow> tcsh? like, some kind of t-c-shell?
<iximeow> ok yep, distinct from "tch"
* egg|z|egg gives UmbralRaptor a taco
<egg|z|egg> whitequark: do tacos exist https://twitter.com/whitequark/status/877971782061273088
<kmath> <whitequark> Burritos don't exist.
<UmbralRaptor> Burrito bowls exist. Well, existed.
<egg|zzz|egg> !choose retweet котяpics|TRAPPIST-1
<Qboid> egg|zzz|egg: Your options are: retweet котяpics, TRAPPIST-1. My choice: TRAPPIST-1
<bofh> link to TRAPPIST-1?
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: ?
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: just working on those patches on top of Gregrox's mod
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: as for gregrox's mod, here's a preprint https://imgur.com/gallery/FQHpnE6
<bofh> ahh thanks
<egg|zzz|egg> !tell Sarbian ModuleManager syntax really needs a documented grammar
<Qboid> egg|zzz|egg: I'll redirect this as soon as they are around.
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<UmbralRaptor> Graffiti only, or is Catullus also acceptable? https://twitter.com/alicegoldfuss/status/1009175943640801280
<kmath> <alicegoldfuss> next up: cli tool that only responds to ancient gay graffiti