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* UmbralRaptop
grumbles. Why does the local coffee shop close at 20:00?
<SnoopJeDi>
UmbralRaptop, raycat!
<SnoopJeDi>
seeking a cuppa, or a place to work?
<UmbralRaptop>
Buying somewhat nice grounds. >_>
<SnoopJeDi>
ahh
<SnoopJeDi>
UmbralRaptop, neat trick with bad grounds is to put a pinch of salt in. I don't know the chemistry, but it mellows out the bitterness of my emergency freeze-dried stuff.
<UmbralRaptop>
hrm
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<UmbralRaptop>
Also, random observation: a keurig costs almost exactly an order of magnitude more than a basic 12 cup coffee maker.
<SnoopJeDi>
probably even before considering the cost of the cups
<SnoopJeDi>
...and the horrid coffee
<bofh>
it's also an order of magnitude shittier,
<UmbralRaptop>
These were just the machines in a dept store. I think a similar relationship holds for grounds + filters vs cups?
<B787_300>
Plus the ecological upside to not using the cups
* awang_
stabs bad keyboard debouncing circuitry
<UmbralRaptop>
awang_: due to a hocho-induced glitch, you stab 38 times.
<SnoopJeDi>
UmbralRaptop, probably. There's also fill-your-own cups though so it's not *exactly* a fair criticism
<SnoopJeDi>
but...french presses are also so easy/cheap/delicious?!
<SnoopJeDi>
and drip really isn't bad either if you keep the machine clean and use decent grounds
<UmbralRaptop>
SnoopJeDi: I thought the cups had DRM now?
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<SnoopJeDi>
they probably do, I haven't purchased the fill-your-own one as a gift in a while
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<egg|anbo|egg>
!wpn bofh and whitequark
* Qboid
gives bofh and whitequark a deterministic spin
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* bofh
should prolly resist the temptation to pick 'Mme' on oui.sncf...
<bofh>
!wpn egg|anbo|egg
* Qboid
gives egg|anbo|egg an extensional von Neumann construction
<egg|anbo|egg>
bofh: well, pretty sure that information isn't surfaced anywhere anyway
<bofh>
which makes me wonder why they bother asking, at that point,
<kmath>
<nilsding> can we just import the comic sans glyphs into unicode and disguise them as math characters?
<bofh>
U+1D918 MATHEMATICAL COMIC CAPITAL R
<bofh>
(fun fact: Comic Sans actually contains a glyph for LONGITUDE OF DESCENDING NODE. also the same for ASCENDING NODE, obv.)
<whitequark>
i taught printer's cat to scuttle away from whatever he's doing that is annoying me when i say "fucking cat"
<whitequark>
accidentally
<egg|anbo|egg>
whitequark: which cat is printer's
<egg|anbo|egg>
also, that's some pretty advanced cat cognition
<whitequark>
порошок
<egg|anbo|egg>
ah, it's still around?
<egg|anbo|egg>
bofh which makes me wonder why they bother asking, at that point, << I think they use it in the greeting in the mail they send you with your booking confirmation
<kmath>
<qrs> It's FOIA time again! The NNSA responded with eighteen wonderful kitschy training, security and motivational poster… https://t.co/FeEOfKOcPw
<UmbralRaptop>
sadly I can't think of anything
<UmbralRaptop>
bofh?
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<egg|anbo|egg>
!pet whitequark
* Qboid
pets whitequark
<iximeow>
!pet anbocat
* Qboid
pets anbocat
<iximeow>
UmbralRaptop: egg|anbo|egg i bought a wedge!! very excited to have an approximately eq mount to do better pictures
<kmath>
<✔DavidBHayter> So, ⏎ ⏎ I sent this poster image to the uncannily brilliant @MAURICELAMARCHE ... ⏎ ⏎ This is the video he sent back.… https://t.co/M3drwquyK5
<kmath>
<ethan_kruse> Here it is: the first @NASA_TESS planet! A 6.3 day mini-Neptune around a 6th magnitude star that already had a know… https://t.co/OJqj8Kzl3P
<B787_300>
and damn a neptune sized planet with a 6 day orbit... that it rocketing around the star
<UmbralRaptop>
B787_300: Rumor mill is that TESS is confirming lots of HARPS, WASP, etc planets that were marginal / unpublished.
<B787_300>
that is still good
<UmbralRaptop>
yeah
<UmbralRaptop>
Also, for silly orbits, check out WASP-18b.
<B787_300>
now when in NASA going to fund a Hubble or bigger sized space based scope with the free flying sunshade... i want direct images
<UmbralRaptop>
Unsure of the likelyhood of a starshade for WFIRST
<B787_300>
a 10x Jupiter with a less than 1 day orbit? yeah that is a crazy good find
<B787_300>
WFIRST is IR... and with the overruns it has had lol no
<B787_300>
oh telescope question UmbralRaptop, egg|zzz|egg ... why have there been no spacebased telescopes with the detector at Prime Focus? benefits: better FOV, more sensitivity drawbacks:??????