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<egg>
!pet whitequark
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pets whitequark
<egg>
whitequark: bofh: um, so, we have compile-time UT1 date literals (converted to TT at compile time), and now I need to orient the Earth correctly (so to compute ERA(TT), where ERA is a linear function of UT1), so I wrote an Earth Rotation Angle function, and, um, it's compile-time >_>
<egg>
the compiler orients the Earth,
<egg>
(that's actually less work than interpreting a UT1 literal, because you don't have the date parsing and otherwise it's equivalent, but still)
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<bofh>
egg: I am quite horrified that you made that compile-time, how long does evaluating that take?
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stabs CS programs that use OCaml to teach pointers
<egg|work|egg>
!meow bofh
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meows at bofh
<SnoopJeDi>
hooray for optical tweezers and chirped pulse amplification \o/
<SnoopJeDi>
(and for FINALLY giving a woman a Nobel in Physics wtf)
<bofh>
HOLY SHIT FINALLY
<bofh>
WAIT A SECOND IT'S *DONNA STRICKLAND*?!?
<bofh>
I took a class from her rofl
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<iximeow>
\o/
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<whitequark>
SnoopJeDi: wait has that really not happened before since like
<whitequark>
marie curie?
<SnoopJeDi>
correct
<SnoopJeDi>
err sorry, Curie was the first
<SnoopJeDi>
Maria Goeppert-Mayer was the second, Strickland is the third
<SnoopJeDi>
so, since 1963
<SnoopJeDi>
and it's not like they didn't have good choices. Vera Rubin was a shoe-in!
<SnoopJeDi>
bofh, that's awesome! Did you guys talk about CPA? :)
<bofh>
Nope, sadly, like I honestly had only the vaguest idea about her being involved, like, this was in 2011 for me which basically meant I missed a lot of classes and tried to not fail. I feel really bad about that now.
<SnoopJeDi>
I'm sure you were a delight in class
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<SnoopJeDi>
We have a vibrant optics community here, so hopefully we'll have a review of CPA sometime. Maybe the OSA would be interested in hosting that.
<bofh>
also 'CPA' maps to a very different thing for me mentally normally, which has made a lot of recent news unintentionally hilarious >_> <_<