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<kmath>
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<kmath>
<bofh453> <@bofh453> so anyhow I think those electric fences were inactive anyhow given the lack of bovines within them & als… https://t.co/FVrHZFFkUj
<egg|zz|egg>
bofh: we did see bovines with bells though
<bofh>
yes, this is true.
<bofh>
in a different field from the one I got zapped in
<bofh>
I wanted to see if that one was live but decided against it, besides, given the presence of bovines the prior for it being live is pretty strong.
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<egg|zz|egg>
bofh: did you mean ~ or ⏦ in your tweet
<egg|zz|egg>
(how do you write approximate alternating voltage...)
<egg|zz|egg>
pretty sure the ASCII ~ is like ' and " in that there are better characters for all uses
<UmbralRaptop>
!u ~⏦
<Qboid>
U+007E TILDE (~)
<Qboid>
U+23E6 AC CURRENT (⏦)
<bofh>
I still much prefer " to its purportedly "more correct" versions, but otherwise, yes, good point. Also it was 'approximately' here but given how the shock felt it def. *was* AC, prolly 50Hz AC.
<egg|zz|egg>
bofh: the preference is a glyph preference
<egg|zz|egg>
get a font that has symmetrical or near-symmetrical double quotation marks
<egg|zz|egg>
they're still opening and closing quotation marks
<bofh>
oh, you actually care about the semantic value of the character itsself, and the opening and closing quotation marks do not *have* to be asymmetrical in the font?
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<oeuf>
bofh: the font can do what it wants
<oeuf>
bofh: also the advantage is that if you're interchanging plain text I can look at the result with quotation marks that look like i want :-p
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<oeuf>
bofh: but yeah, fonts do what they want, they can be comic sans
<oeuf>
I'd separately argue that in english typesetting the curly or angled straight ones are usually preferred (note that they are the same code point)
<oeuf>
bofh: we forgot to take the earth-moon system with a bofh for scale
<oeuf>
also venus
<bofh>
oeuf: oops
<bofh>
oeuf: can fix that later, or photoshoop it in
<oeuf>
could go there again tomorrow i suppose
<oeuf>
bofh: get a room for tomorrow,
<oeuf>
!pet whitequark and котенькы
* Qboid
pets whitequark and котенькы
<oeuf>
s/ы/у/
<Qboid>
oeuf meant to say: !pet whitequark and котеньку
<bofh>
oeuf: already did, same place.
<oeuf>
yay
<oeuf>
okay so now we should consider the possibility of food i guess
<bofh>
yes, food would be good
* oeuf
stares at LAGEOS
<UmbralRaptop>
Don't forget food the way you forget sleep?
<oeuf>
UmbralRaptop: hmm
<oeuf>
UmbralRaptop: good point
<bofh>
UmbralRaptop: I mean I kind of can't, forgetting sleep for me is fine, forgetting food results in random hypoglycemia episodes that cause my phone to get stolen at Gare Saint-Lazare, or worse.
<bofh>
me: "as strange as it may seem, I know what I'm doing" egg: "not sure that's accurate at all, I mean sometimes you know things and do them and they occasionally align with reality, but... yeah" me: "okay FINE I concede"
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<UmbralRaptop>
It's fine as long as the space of things is known and low dimensional.
<bofh>
UmbralRaptop: I mean it is very much not low-dimensional
<bofh>
I know low-dimensional subsets of it
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<oeuf>
!wpn bofh UmbralRaptop
* Qboid
gives bofh UmbralRaptop a tcsh-compatible sabre with a thyratron attachment
<oeuf>
wait i think there needs to be a word there
* UmbralRaptop
blinks
<UmbralRaptop>
!wpn oeuf
* Qboid
gives oeuf a radioactive hexagon
<bofh>
!wpn oeuf
* Qboid
gives oeuf a von Neumann poisonous infinity
* oeuf
yells at bofh's bank
<UmbralRaptop>
Qboid seems to be producing dangerous artifacts.