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> https://twitter.com/fart/status/1070115688222605312 <✔fart> there's a company called "Infinity Sav" selling magic infinite energy devices, and the truly incredible and real ma… https://t.co/kq84hMHZMM
<UmbralRaptor> ooh, nice. Do they run other Zachtronics games?
<bofh> unknown
<bofh> ...now I'm curious if I can get TIS-100 to run on a Rigol
<UmbralRaptor> heh
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* oeuf meows at UmbralRaptor
* UmbralRaptor scritches œuf
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<UmbralRaptor> It's mildly confusing to see a citation of (Lagrange 2011)
<UmbralRaptor> Also, I'm sad that ADS doesn't have a citation count or text for http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1873oevr.book..507L
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<oeuf> UmbralRaptor: wait, Lagrange 2011?
<UmbralRaptor> oeuf: Lagrange et al 2011, actually http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011A%26A...528L...9L
<egg|cell|egg> Um
<UmbralRaptor> Poking at ADS, there are a few people named Lagrange >_>
<egg|cell|egg> Ah A.-M. not J.-L.
<UmbralRaptor> yeah
<egg|cell|egg> conveniently a.-m. are the initials of Legendre
<kmath> <NovaSilisko> If you thought OSIRIS-REx was a mangled acronym, let me introduce you to: Demonstration and Experiment of Space Tec… https://t.co/DQkZLg6MuR
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<oeuf> sadly no qboid
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<kmath> <chordbug> Related words to "sunset": moonmap, skyqueue, starstruct
<kmath> <theantarcticsun> vlt space rose https://t.co/0SqqH7SFoQ
<SnoopJeDi> starstruct would be a good name for a Transformer
<SnoopJeDi> or a survey/simulation aimed at hierarchical assembly
<UmbralRaptop> bofh: Hα!
<UmbralRaptop> starstruct: mapping globular or open clusters in $galaxy
<bofh> me [excitedly, noting the d/l dir]: "DID THEY MAKE A HINTED VERSION OF NOTO SANS CUNEIFORM FINALLY?!?"
<bofh> *ttx -l, noting total absence of fpgm and prep*
<bofh> Nope.
<bofh> I mean this is something I could do, but no. Not even if I had time, I used to do font hinting back in the day (y-axis only, ofc) and gods writing TT bytecode by hand takes TOO FUCKING LONG.
<SnoopJeDi> I know some of these words
<bofh> SnoopJeDi: so truetype contains a stack-based bytecode to do font hinting (basically making them appear nicer on low-DPI screens)
<bofh> it's literally just warping Béziers and pushing their control points around and whatnot
<bofh> and you can handwrite it, which is what I did when I needed to hint glyphs in a font
<bofh> eggscept it's... *really* tedious.
<SnoopJeDi> fonts and "tedious" line up well in my mind yes
<SnoopJeDi> bofh, is it a bit like SVG's DSL for curves then?
<SnoopJeDi> except being able to move control points around post-facto?
<bofh> doesn't help that my mental intuition is for cubic béziers and TT uses quadratic ones... you can always lift a quadratic to a cubic easily (and this is what I do in any font scan converter, I always output cubics), but it doesn't help if MIAP[0] etc use those of the quadratic
<bofh> yes
<bofh> eggsactly
<bofh> you can even move points around directly at a step just before round-to-grid using SHPIX
<bofh> but good lord that's, like, an unholy clusterfuck
<bofh> and kinda useless since you typically want to omit x-axis hints unless those are vital
<bofh> (b/c an x-axis hint changes the advance width, which means computing that no longer means you just pull the value out of hmtx and scale it, now you need to run scan conversion just to figure out how much to advance the cursor)
<SnoopJeDi> You lost me again, but I think I catch the meaning of "it makes character width hard"
<bofh> yes
<bofh> eggsactly
<oeuf> meow
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* UmbralRaptop 🔪 Macs in their lack of ethernet ports
<bofh> NICE
<kmath> <jckarter> "How do I coerce something to bool" ⏎ Use the bofa operator ⏎ "What's that" ⏎ Bofa deez nots: !!x
<UmbralRaptop> Apparently our eggsoplanet survey study will be needed to be checked for eggsport compliance >_<
<bofh> wtf
<bofh> UmbralRaptop: *GROAN*
<UmbralRaptop> I don't know. Maybe bnumbs can guess what/why.
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<egg> UmbralRaptor: is bnumbs the boeing?
<UmbralRaptor> yeah
<UmbralRaptor> He has a job with the government doing [redacted], so is painfully familiar with those sorts of things.
<UmbralRaptor> coworker's mug https://photos.app.goo.gl/9D6k2m9UE8pJMrSL9
* UmbralRaptor was confused to see this RT'd by @chordbug but not bofh https://twitter.com/ree_kkr/status/1070288691401154561
<kmath> <ree_kkr> ありがとう… https://t.co/GhAXkR76yq
<bofh> UmbralRaptor: done
<bofh> oops I did it on main, that's clearly where the pictures of Paris go,
<bofh> :P
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<egg> Sarbian: why does % not work on top-level nodes, and what should one do instead?
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