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.
<whitequark>
iximeow: scary thought: there isn't, in general, a physical limit to how large in terms of yield you can make a fission-fusion-fission bomb
<whitequark>
I've seen a DoD paper that threw around 1 Gt yields
<egg|overheated|egg>
eventually it gets gravitationally confined,
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<iximeow>
whitequark: fission-fusion-fission? what's fissling in the third part of that?
<UmbralRaptor>
Extremely back of the envelope numbers based on Wikipedia's numbers suggests 450-500 megatons.
<egg|overheated|egg>
(okay admittedly that's not even true, eventually you get away from gravitational confinement and then classify them in much the same way as mycenian pottery)
<whitequark>
iximeow: in a teller-ulam design most of the energy comes from fission
<whitequark>
you use first stage fission to ignite fusion, which in turn makes the next fission stage far more efficient
<UmbralRaptor>
iximeow: fusion as a neutron source for fast fissioning uranium. I want to say it works with depleted uranium?
<iximeow>
ah, huh...
<whitequark>
yeah something like that
<whitequark>
which is how "dial-a-yield" works
<whitequark>
you vary the amount of tritium in w87, again, iirc
<kmath>
<incorrect2hu> Tewi: hewwo! i will be youw suwgeon today! intewnal bweeding you say? let's make our fiwst wittle incision ⏎ ⏎ Kaguya:… https://t.co/Dp8JxhlgYu
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<whitequark>
bofh: my sleep-deprived brain converts that into "it's 401(k) and raining"
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<UmbralRaptor>
that sounds much nicer
* UmbralRaptor
stares at a badly underfunded Roth IRA.
<kmath>
<whitequark> cursed game idea: academic sponsorship and publishing simulator
<UmbralRaptor>
egg: apparently Unicode 11 added a bunch of astrological symbols? (3 plutos?)
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<bofh>
05:07:16 <+bofh_> okay so.
<bofh>
05:07:27 <+bofh_> you know the saying ACAB?
<bofh>
05:07:48 <+bofh_> well I have another, closely related one: ACAU - All Cops Are Fucking Useless (the f is silent)
<bofh>
05:08:37 <+bofh_> I had my bag AND phone stolen while I looked around the street at the Tour Eiffel bus stop on Rue de Boncharwhatever
<bofh>
05:09:20 <+bofh_> there are cameras fucking everywhere, I have a 5 minute window for the theft, and a phone that's on a local SIM and I know the IMEI and IMSI as well as the exact location of the theft.
<bofh>
05:10:07 <+bofh_> I get strung around for 3 hours at the commissariat and they eventually have me fill out some forms and they'll contact my insurance provider etc etc
<bofh>
05:10:52 <+bofh_> ("how much is the estimated value?" "uhh, maybe 400EUR for the laptop+hackrf+headphones and 6 months of my life for the ARPES data on that SSD?")
<bofh>
05:11:54 <+bofh_> anyway, things they did not steal: my passport, my Navigo, my mp3 player oh and 15.5g of ethylphenidate and a bunch of e2.
<bofh>
05:12:17 <+bofh_> so I'm able to get around, still functional and *very* annoyed.
<bofh>
05:12:24 <+bofh_> time to do the fucking police's job for them.
<bofh>
also I told them I was staying with a friewnd at 61 Rue de Observatoire, a M. Le Verrier AND NONE OF THEM BLINEKD, they just asked if I needed a taxi and otherwise told me how to get there via metro
<bofh>
friend*
* UmbralRaptor
misses the reference
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<UmbralRaptor>
I mean, for all I know, there could actually be a place named after him on an observatory road. >_>;;
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<UmbralRaptor>
!acr -add:MORGOTH Modelling Of Resolved Galaxies with Optimized Turn-off and HB synthesis
<Qboid>
UmbralRaptor: I added the explanation for this acronym.
<egg|phone|egg>
Bofh: argh yeah I should have told you to be careful with your belongings
<egg|phone|egg>
And yeah about expected for the police response
<egg|overheated|egg>
bofh: do you have means of payment left?
<egg|overheated|egg>
stabbity
<egg|overheated|egg>
bofh: ping me when you are near a computer again
<e_14159>
egg|overheated|egg: Thanks. Looks like mostly-typical autumn climate.
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<egg|phone|egg>
!seen bofh
<Qboid>
egg|phone|egg: I last saw bofh on [04.08.2018 05:33:39] in #kspacademia saying: "friend*"
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<egg|overheated|egg>
!u ϕφ
<Qboid>
U+03D5 GREEK PHI SYMBOL (ϕ)
<Qboid>
U+03C6 GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI (φ)
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<egg|phone|egg>
!seen bofh
<Qboid>
egg|phone|egg: I last saw bofh on [04.08.2018 05:33:39] in #kspacademia saying: "friend*"
<APlayer>
Hehe, "friend"
<bofh>
egg|phone|egg: yo
<egg|phone|egg>
Meow
<bofh>
sorry, was asleep for a good chunk of the day (sleep dep decided to catch up with me at a bad time >_>)
<egg|phone|egg>
Ah yes that thing you are supposed to do between 1 and 5
<bofh>
anyhow no response in email from the police yet, so I need to figure out how to contact the owners of a security camera pointed at that bus stop and get them to freeze the data since iirc those are supposed to be 24hr loops only unless requested.
<egg|phone|egg>
1 min walking back from groceries
<bofh>
egg|phone|egg: like I used to be more careful with my stuff and then I kind of got a bit careless since I usually kept *out* of touristy-as-fuck areas, and this seriously took place over *minutes*.
<bofh>
I'm good for money, like they didn't steal wallet, cash, passport or ID.
<bofh>
like, the situation is hilarious b/c it somehow *mostly* minimizes actual impact (again, I can fly, have means of payment, have medications, etc) yet maximizes annoyance (*you* try functioning w/o a computer for a few hours :P).
<egg|overheated|egg>
bofh: ok i'm back home, check your chat
<bofh>
egg|overheated|egg: got it
<egg|overheated|egg>
!wpn bofh
* Qboid
gives bofh an engine
<egg|overheated|egg>
bofh: tbh you weren't all that careful with your stuff when we were there, I really should have pointed that out to you
<bofh>
egg|overheated|egg: yeah b/c none of it was hugely valuable, honestly my main annoyance is that I lost my phone, everything else, uh my laptop is mostly an ssh terminal and can be restored from an image, ATH-M50s are $150 and I can re-print academic papers.
<egg|overheated|egg>
bofh: yeah, but still a massive annoyance
<kmath>
<whitequark> i opened steam and it suggested me a house renovation simulator (and house selling simulator, after you renovated t… https://t.co/jQgBK2vrEX
<bofh>
egg|overheated|egg: so out of curiosity my older backup has everything except for like half a day of simulator data.
<bofh>
(yeah I was mildly curious how fucked I'd be if this happened while I was at ANBO, answer is still "basically not").
<kmath>
<ea4gpz> New blog post: Update on DSLWP-B eclipse manoeuvre. How to use GMAT to estimate the delta-v used in the manoeuvre o… https://t.co/7gUAbVwesZ
<bofh>
okay time to play ID-the-CCTV-camera since the one pointed at that stop is a private one.
<e_14159>
bofh: I read your first message as you having lost half a year of scientific data.
<bofh>
e_14159: yes and then it turns out I had made no less than two backups.
<kmath>
<vy_let> Mathematicians have run out of Latin and Greek letters so many times that Unicode includes several different versio… https://t.co/7ohaUxbDCe
<bofh>
UmbralRaptor: I still say we should switch to CJK at this point for new letters.
<iximeow>
i've talked myself out of getting a 16" SCT because an appropriate mount is just more than i can deal with
* iximeow
sigh
<bofh>
uh, wouldn't a standard mount be fine there?
<iximeow>
it's a decently heavy OTA (~68lbs, says the internet), so it seems like my mount options are in the ~1.5k-2k range. the weight of all of it comes out to ~175lbs, or, annoying to constantly move somewhere that isn't a wobbly second floor balcony :(