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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<UmbralRaptor>
Extremely frustrating thing: often not catching what a person says the first time they say it.
<iximeow>
agree
<UmbralRaptor>
(This has been happening a lot for the past 24 hours. Well, a lot more than usual)
<bofh>
It's *extremely* frustrating, agreed.
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<egg|zzz|egg>
UmbralRaptor: ah, en-GB and en-US not being intelligible? :-p
<UmbralRaptor>
Mostly pronounciation and stress. It's a smol problem.
<kmath>
<whitequark> today I had a dream about a cryptоcurrency slash censorship-resistant hypertext system where the Byzantine fault to… https://t.co/kxudMaqw4B
<kmath>
<whitequark> me (stupid, from degenerate 2010s): "this apartment ought to have a GFCI, maybe i should install one" ⏎ builders (sma… https://t.co/qvGer4tl78
<egg|work|egg>
whitequark: do you have dead wasps tho
<bofh>
and holy fuck I'm amazed electrical fires aren't *more* common in US buildings tbqh.
<egg|work|egg>
oh great putting the entire bulb at the phase O_o
<bofh>
Ahh yes, hot/hot, the best "off" configuration.
<egg|work|egg>
bofh: today in things that confuse me in english terminology, the use of "hot" or "live" but virtually never "phase" to designate that potential
<kmath>
<annapjudson> One of my favourite people from the Linear B tablets is Karpathia the Procrastinating Priestess (actual text: "Karp… https://t.co/3ncxk84GGB
<egg|work|egg>
bofh: yeah in french even in a single-phase context you would refer to the live as "the phase"
<bofh>
Huh, now that's somewhat unusual to my ears, go figure.
<kmath>
<whitequark> on the left, three mystery wires in decaying cloth insulation go into the wall. on the right, it's phase, neutral a… https://t.co/5nxxeIW0g2
<kmath>
<whitequark> when I poked with a meter, it made an omnious crackling sound and the lights started to flicker so I'm gonna go out… https://t.co/6iUocf9fH2
<kmath>
<dperny> @whitequark "whitequark's wiring" - the greatest thread in the history of code enforcement complains, locked by a b… https://t.co/drIaBcroGn
<kmath>
<11rcombs> @whitequark okay the only thing I'm coming up with is "that light is across neutral and earth, and the neutral isn'… https://t.co/cIMQ2YqqUV
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<SnoopJeDi>
So apparently Broodwar allowed fairly arbitrary buffer overflows with triggers and modders made crazy things with it, and Blizzard decided to *emulate* that to support old maps >_>
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<UmbralRaptop>
egg|zzz|egg, whitequark, Iskierka: on a scale of 1 to 4, how much of a fire hazard is this?
<kmath>
<11rcombs> @whitequark from IRC, where we're discussing this and other electrical terrors: ⏎ ⏎ <taixzo> we also had a chandelier… https://t.co/qPGe0b2ZVe
<kmath>
<whitequark> the old insulation (unidentifiable crumbling polymer under unidentifiable crumbling cloth braiding) was in an extre… https://t.co/95k954MRhT
<kmath>
<whitequark> mystery of the hot G/Y conductor: solved ⏎ I will find the trash who has worked on wiring in this house, and I will s… https://t.co/qSKpMWFT99
<egg|zzz|egg>
!wpn bofh
* Qboid
gives bofh a bit-addressable Лифшиц patent/grapheme hybrid
<egg|zzz|egg>
UmbralRaptop: en-FR is not spoken to be understood,
<egg|zzz|egg>
UmbralRaptop: much like fr-FR,
<UmbralRaptop>
egg|zzz|egg: I thought that was fr-QC?
<kmath>
<0xABD> @whitequark 20 years ago my family moved to a place which had ~6m of wiring across the corridor walls made of ~50-7… https://t.co/dlIJIia7aX
<kmath>
<whitequark> also the decaying aluminium wire was load-bearing: the junction box was "fixed" to the wall with a single screw (na… https://t.co/NsCGJORZ4v