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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* UninsuredRaptor
pokes image formats with a stick. Why would opening a TIFF in paint, and saving it as a PNG result in a larger file?
<iximeow>
more bits per pixel?
<iximeow>
transparency channel
<iximeow>
also update: wedge is here!
<UninsuredRaptor>
Yeah, also apparently TIFF supports compression o_O
<UninsuredRaptor>
Also, Yay!
<iximeow>
wedge is heavy wow
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<kmath>
<hikari_no_yume> why are “Western names” still common for Chinese people in or interacting with the West, or rather, why not for other countries
<egg|anbo|egg>
which I guess I could use in zh too
<egg|anbo|egg>
hmmm, this IRC client displays notices across channels so merges from Kopernicus appear here
<kmath>
<Zaikarion> @rqou_ @bofh453 @stephentyrone @eggleroy This confused me back when I was in Shanghai because they still used the e… https://t.co/GrzH7nyYGh
* egg|anbo|egg
gives whitequark a metric pound of butter
<egg|anbo|egg>
!wpn rqou
* Qboid
gives rqou a biologically active MissingNo. with a check attachment
<kmath>
<whitequark> same cat has repeatedly demonstrated lifting a small glass vial with both front paws and lifting it to try and grab… https://t.co/2inMWgfAcu
<kmath>
<whitequark> this cat likes to play fetch. and I don't mean she brings things back sometimes; every single time I throw a toy, i… https://t.co/oc1yIQT7vx
* egg|anbo|egg
really needs to get a котяland visa and go there to meet that cat next year
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<egg|anbo|egg>
<whitequark> and I can probably rub a modern PCI-e card on the cat and nothing will happen
<egg|anbo|egg>
okay but which cat,
<Qboid>
4d 0h 0m 0s left to event #28: Horizons 3e & Azerspace 2 (Intelsat 38) / Ariane 5 VA245 [at 2018-09-25 21:53:00]. Say '!kountdown 28' for details
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<kmath>
<V_Parmentier> And so it begins: two papers on the same 1st planet data by TESS disagree by 6 sigma on the planet radius.… https://t.co/ipzlEh6Fz7
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<egg|anbo|egg>
bofh: WTF, atiyah claims to have a proof of the riemann hypothesis?!
<egg|anbo|egg>
!meow bofh, whitequark, and Sir Michael Atiyah
* Qboid
meows at bofh, whitequark, and Sir Michael Atiyah
<B787_300>
UmbralRaptor: so they closed and evaced the solar observatory because the janitor had child porn...
<UmbralRaptor>
B787_300: yeah o_O
<UmbralRaptor>
Yep, because my school didn't inform me about the plan changeover / enrollment period, I'm going to have to look at short term plans and/or do without until spring.
<kmath>
<brettmor> I wrote a Twitterbot that posts postdoc jobs from the AAS jobs register. I'll try to make sure it posts all new opp… https://t.co/xP8ZfX1A6p
<whitequark>
egg|anbo|egg: порошок was eating cardboard as i was writing that basically
<whitequark>
hes not super smart
<egg|anbo|egg>
O_o
<egg|anbo|egg>
that seems surprising in that it's *actively* daft
<egg|anbo|egg>
whitequark: also does мелкая κnow how to open doors?
<whitequark>
egg|anbo|egg: she doesnt have enough mass i think
<egg|anbo|egg>
hmm
<whitequark>
seems to struggle with cat flap at times
<egg|anbo|egg>
you could try teaching her to see if it works
<egg|anbo|egg>
huh
<whitequark>
maybe not enough strength? she knows how it works but can't go through occasionally
<egg|anbo|egg>
how sturdy is it
<egg|anbo|egg>
the cat flap here is basically a small sheet of rubber stapled at one end...
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<awang>
UmbralRaptor: What software is using 6 out of 4 cores?
<awang>
Umless you're compiling something
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<UmbralRaptor>
radvel
<UmbralRaptor>
Actually, it looks like it's trying to use 100+ cores.