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> <MJIBrown> Early TESS light curves. #iau2018 https://t.co/4KnP0ftx2i
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<kmath> <bofh453> A an actual chapter title: "How Any Really Determined Person Can Discover The Ricci Tensor All By Him Or Herself".
<UmbralRaptop> This was by one of egg|zzz|egg's teachers, right?
<egg|laptop|egg> yeah, Trubowitz
<egg|laptop|egg> !pet whitequark
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<bofh> oh cool, the publisher that publishes most of the SF/fantasy I read is being a gigantic twat.
<kmath> <tekla_h> Wow, @torbooks is putting an embargo on sales to *libraries* https://t.co/xzXPj9lvSQ
<UmbralRaptop> stabbity
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<B787_300> UmbralRaptop: I just LOVE fighting with the mount on a telescope
<UmbralRaptop> B787_300: show it that you have thermite as to scare it into behaving.
<B787_300> Got a freaking cable wrap around the polar alignment scope (which can supposedly be left in without any issues) causing us to lose about a half hour of pointing refinement and an extra half hour of troubleshooting causing us to miss our opportunity to look at LEO sats
<UmbralRaptop> gah
<iximeow> B787_300: what mount are you using for LEO sats?
<B787_300> A software bisque paramount
<UmbralRaptop> some sort of EQ
<iximeow> ooh nice
<B787_300> And yes it is an EQ
<UmbralRaptop> The life observable returns +ħ/2 https://twitter.com/xdroop/status/1034282457930129408
<kmath> <xdroop> Back in the box https://t.co/nmhMWYwV3r
<B787_300> UmbralRaptop: you have any conferences coming up?
<UmbralRaptop> Not until January, I think.
<UmbralRaptop> Pretty much research and pretending to take a stellar physics class.
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<egg|cell|egg> !Wpn whitequark
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<awang> I want to understand all this circuitry wizardry so badly so I can be outraged
<egg|work|egg> !wpn whitequark
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<awang> It seems like !choose and ;choose end up picking the same option a heck of a lot more than random chance dictates
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<awang> UmbralRaptop: I wish my blue jays were that friendly :(
* UmbralRaptop is unsure what would help
<kmath> <avogado6> 休日 https://t.co/7Xp4tTu9co
<kmath> <JCTArtStudio> #Dromaeosaur families. https://t.co/5YoTWUEr7S
<kmath> <annie_wylde> Henry is a most helpful writing companion. https://t.co/OafwqHm4Zn
<UmbralRaptop> egg|zzz|egg: …is that a dog?
<UmbralRaptop> (okay, yes. dogs are cats)
<awang> UmbralRaptop: Blue jay debugging is the new rubber duck debugging?
<awang> Also, Higgs boson decay get?
<UmbralRaptop> awang: yes. Pros: smarter algorithm. Cons: not water proof.
<egg|work|egg> UmbralRaptop: there is a dog, but look outside the dog
<UmbralRaptop> tabby!
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<awang> UmbralRaptop: Hey, I think blue jays can be waterproof enough
<awang> Give Henry a birbbath and see
<awang> Preferably not near your computer, though
<UmbralRaptop> Sadly I live ~2000 km from Henry
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<kmath> <✔Alex_Parker> Today: ⏎ - One interview request about our mission to 2014 MU69, the most distant target of human exploration ever.… https://t.co/qqql2j8MrO
<UmbralRaptop> Hrm… AAS 233 registration has opened.
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<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn UmbralRaptop
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<egg|zzz|egg> !pet UmbralRaptop
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<egg|zzz|egg> !pet whitequark
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<awang> UmbralRaptop: Followed! I need more birbs in my life
<awang> Especially once the hummingbirds leave :(
* awang hochos KDE
<awang> Stop resetting my scrolling settings every time I plug in an external monitor >:(
<UmbralRaptop> awang: are @jctartstudio's dromeosaurs also acceptable?
<awang> UmbralRaptop: HAncient birbs
<awang> Interesting...
<awang> s/H//
<Qboid> awang meant to say: UmbralRaptop: Ancient birbs
<UmbralRaptop> indeed
<egg|zzz|egg> meow
<egg|zzz|egg> meow
<egg|zz|egg> meow
<kmath> <worddroppings> Cat selfie! ⏎ #reytheimp #cats #tabbycat https://t.co/vhyY6NgZoM
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<egg|zz|egg> !meow bofh
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<bofh> JESUS FUCKING CHRIST FUCK CBP
<bofh> finally in the USA, tho it took being questioned for half an hour and them rifling thru my phone before they okayed it.
<bofh> And before you ask if I had something wrong, no, literally I had every document perfectly setup and an immediate response to every question. -_-
<bofh> (also conveniently this being a new phone it was barely used so there was nothing compromising on it, and my last one being stolen was an easy answer to why this one was new)
<bofh> My favourite was still "what were you doing in China" "...at an academic conference" "what was your purpose at this conference?" "uhh discussing research in my field?" moments after they scanned and confirmed my student visa, asked me about my studies, had me login and confirm I was an active student into UIUC's CMS *and* tried asking me about my research but gave up after I launched into an explanation
<bofh> on, like, Ginzburg-Landau Theory (which is ...
<bofh> ... like, the intro'est of intros))
<bofh> s/))$/)/
<bofh> they seemed *really* interested as to me being in China and not really about any other part of my trip, oddly.
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<Qboid> 10d 0h 0m 0s left to event #28: 3e&Azerspace 2/Intelsat 38, VA243 [at 2018-09-07 21:56:00]. Say '!kountdown 28' for details
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: yeah, coming back from CN sounds like a bad way to enter the US
<egg|zzz|egg> (there is no good way mind you)
<bofh> AGREED.
<bofh> The only winning move here is not to play.
<egg|zzz|egg> (similarly, if you happen to have dual FR-LB citizenship don't enter with the FR passport, they'll question you to ask you why you didn't show the LB one instead)
<bofh> LB?
<egg|zzz|egg> lebanon
<UmbralRaptop> aaaaaaaaaaaaaa
<bofh> Ah. Yeah, that's a thing commonly, like if I were flying to Canada I'd need to enter with my CA passport (there's a procedure for entering that doesn't require it but it's a bit annoying, requires pre-applying and then going thru immigration).
<bofh> Best part with this incident was, like, okay, so I've just spent the past week doing nothing but superconductivity so I was *more* than willing to talk for the next day if CBP wanted me to :p
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: yeah but here the flight involves canada so maybe that's saner
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: I mean that flying anywhere -> US and entering with an FR passport when they know that you have an LB one will somehow get you questions
<bofh> (Also the most annoying part of this is, like, I made the mistake of watching Amélie on the flight like 3hrs before landing... wonderful movie but eggstremely emotionally overwhelming for me).
<bofh> egg|zzz|egg: OH they'll get picky if you don't enter THE USA on the LB one?!
<bofh> I mean I'm not that surprised but what the fuck.
<egg|zzz|egg> yes
<egg|zzz|egg> (happened to a colleague a long time ago, after that he learned his lesson and went through the slow lane with the LB passport)
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: also wtf they abbreviated the title in en?
<UmbralRaptop> correct
<egg|zzz|egg> I had to check whether there was some other film called "Amélie" that wasn't Amélie Poulain, but no, that's what it's called in en somehow Ꙩ_ꙩ
* egg|zzz|egg pokes bofh with a photomaton
<bofh> HEY I HAD TO USE ONE OF THOSE rofl
<bofh> (you need a photo on your Navigo and *yes* the ticket checkers will fine you if you don't have one... learned this by having taken said photos but not yet attaching them, wound up having to do that in a hurry in the Cité station to avoid like a 39EUR ticket)
<egg|zzz|egg> wait what you found a controller in the metro?
<egg|zzz|egg> I have literally never encountered one
<bofh> (I don't understand why, it's arguably completely pointless, but I never said RATP is sensible).
<bofh> So I've encountered them once at Cité & once at Châtelet.
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<bofh> I think they frequent the tourist-trap-y stations.
<bofh> also 2x for taking the metro a *lot* is still not a very high number :p
<bofh> also WAIT A SECOND WTF so FR is eligible for ESTA/VWP entry into the States whereas LB requires a Visa for entry, what the fuck.
<bofh> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4EgNZE9bwU&fmt=18 also this song is *way* catchier than it has any right being >_>
<kmath> YouTube - Jaugs - French Train (Remix SNCF)
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: btw what is your fugue theme on the sncf jingle
<bofh> it's not mine, friend improv'd it on piano.
<egg|zzz|egg> do you have a score for it?
<egg|zzz|egg> or can you write/typeset one down
<bofh> I'll write one down in Musescore in a bit.
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<iximeow> UmbralRaptop: baaaaaaaaaaaaaaad
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: have you tried LilyPond
<bofh> egg|zzz|egg: yeah, forgot it existed but I actually prefer it to Musescore for simple transcription, thanks >_<
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: I mean you can do non-simple things too, http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/ancient-notation
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<bofh> egg|zz|egg: I mean, yes, but that's not relevant here
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: yeah but "prefer it to Musescore for simple transcription" << why not complex too :-p
<egg|zzz|egg> also those ligatures are pretty
<egg|zz|egg> bofh: (do you have a gregorian chant variation on the sncf jingle too)
<bofh> rofl, no, and that sounds quite nontrivial...
<egg|zz|egg> yeah pretty sure those three notes are already breaking all the rules on their own :-p
<bofh> yep...
<egg|zzz|egg> meow
<UmbralRaptop> !pet egg|zzz|egg && bofh
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<bofh> !meow UmbralRaptop
* Qboid meows at UmbralRaptop