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>
<✔TwitterSupport> 5/ Meanwhile, today we updated the “Show the best Tweets first” setting. When off, you’ll only see Tweets from peop… https://t.co/zkOTsTcUb2
<bofh>
UmbralRaptop: 5.7M followers, bluecheck, no unicode confusables in the name
<bofh>
seems legit?
<UmbralRaptop>
Content of that tweet is deeply unlikely, though.
<kmath>
<whitequark> someone give cats opposable thumbs tbqh
<bofh>
whitequark: wouldn't a human marketed etongestrel implant work just as well if there's no specific veterinary product available?
<whitequark>
bofh: basically yes
<whitequark>
the dosage is a bit high for cats, but not extremely high
<egg|anbo|egg>
shouldn't it be scaled down a bit?
<egg|anbo|egg>
unless it's for very smol humans,
<whitequark>
a bit yes
<whitequark>
but it's not clear how to do that aseptically
<whitequark>
plus cats have slightly faster metabolism
<egg|anbo|egg>
whitequark: still no news from коти?
<whitequark>
egg|anbo|egg: nope
<whitequark>
hiding somewhere
<whitequark>
basement maybe
<egg|anbo|egg>
:-/
<bofh>
whitequark: regardless, the therapeutic range for progestins is pretty high, iirc ingestion of several mg of desogestrel produced no effects other than slight nausea
<whitequark>
huh
<whitequark>
right, that's how emergency contraception works
<whitequark>
printer did tell me about the nausea
<egg|anbo|egg>
bofh: yeah, but what about prolonged use of high doses
<bofh>
yeah, also some progestins (norethisterone, dienogest iirc) are used for endometriosis treatment at doses ~10x their contraceptive doses with no observed ill effects
<bofh>
also I suspect pharmacokinetics of the release rate thru the ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer isn't the same for a cat compared to a person; it should be somewhat lower I think.
<kmath>
<LSST> ICYMI: Employment opportunity! @ccin2p3 is hiring a Scientific Data Processing Engineer, based in Lyon, France, to… https://t.co/d6cq4QzNmf
<UmbralRaptop>
(cc: bofh?)
<whitequark>
egg|anbo|egg_: мелкая just stole an enormous banana peel and is running with it in teeth
<UmbralRaptop>
o_O
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<egg|anbo|egg_>
whitequark: nice
<egg|anbo|egg_>
whitequark: do you have pictures of the bananacat
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<egg|anbo|egg_>
whitequark: so, the folks who joined 2 phases at a domino did that while working on the connection to the sewers
<egg|anbo|egg_>
apparently they are as good at installing pipes in the ground as they are at understanding electricity
<SnoopJeDi>
I've fallen down a SDO rabbit hole of sorts. I made an hour-long seamless looping of that solar sonification, and toying with the idea of stringing together and hour's worth of video to combine with it for YouTube porpoises
<kmath>
<whitequark> @gsuberland so that's the effect of dried sweat on your skin, and cats don't sweat under fur. they also lick themse… https://t.co/eEX2EpNzkE
<kmath>
<crystalbennes> Oh my GOD! A friend in Helsinki took some proper photos of my CERN stained-glass window in its new permanent home a… https://t.co/ESjHW9t7n5
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<egg|anbo|egg>
!pet bofh
* Qboid
pets bofh
<egg|anbo|egg>
!pet bofh
* Qboid
pets bofh
<egg|anbo|egg>
!pet whitequark
* Qboid
pets whitequark
<egg|anbo|egg>
!pet whitequark
* Qboid
pets whitequark
* egg|anbo|egg
pets a cat
<egg|anbo|egg>
also, the cat pets itself
<UmbralRaptop>
!pet ANBOcat
* Qboid
pets ANBOcat
<egg|anbo|egg>
self-petting cat
<SnoopJeDi>
UmbralRaptop, wow
<egg|anbo|egg>
!meow whitequark and bofh
* Qboid
meows at whitequark and bofh
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<egg|anbo|egg>
stabbity!
<egg|anbo|egg>
"It is expected that these truncation levels provide a 3-dimensional orbit accuracy of better than 0.5 mm for the indicated satellites (Ries, 2010)."
<egg|anbo|egg>
"Ries, J.C., 2010, personal communication."
<UmbralRaptop>
Please do not stab the satellites that hard; you'll push them more than 0.5 mm.
<whitequark>
lol
<bofh>
egg|anbo|egg: "personal communication" is prolly my most hated thing to see in a reference, *particularly* when it's the goddamn one I specifically need.
<egg|anbo|egg>
bofh: same
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<SnoopJeDi>
I bump into internal technical notes more commonly, but...close enough to the same thing :/
<kmath>
<SuperASASSN> If a collaborator writes in an e-mail "my awesome Dean", and she/he is not being sarcastic, should we be worried, and how worried?
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<awang_>
UmbralRaptop: My coworkers are teaching me the SAT vocabulary that I never bothered to learn
<UmbralRaptop>
awang_: also important if you have to take the GRE!
<bofh>
^
<awang_>
Wait, the GRE has vocab requirements too?
<UmbralRaptop>
Yep!
<UmbralRaptop>
The regular GRE is basically a faster and harder SAT.