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<raptop>
I'm becoming convinced that I'm the only person who gives their computers actual names
<raptop>
(like, looking at teamviewer, and seeing lots of DESKTOP-this and LAPTOP-that. Sometimes you'll even see a person's name)
<raptop>
Meanwhile, Algorab
<raptop>
Woo, telescope is failing deadly (sort of. We can't turn off the flat lamp)
<raptop>
We turned the relevant software off and then on again (read, killed via task manager), and it worked
<raptop>
yay
<whitequark>
flat lamp?
<raptop>
lamp to "evenly" light up the inside of the dome so we can take flats
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<WeylandsWings>
raptop: look at your fancy lamp for taking flats
<raptop>
"fancy"
<WeylandsWings>
some of use have to make do with sheets of posterboard or try to take sky flats
<raptop>
It's an incandecent lamp that can be controlled remotely via a python script that an undergrad wrote. We handwave it being even by pointing at the side of the dome and assuming that our limited FoV and lack of focus are sufficient
<whitequark>
o
<raptop>
The 3000 K or whatever that a 40 W bulb is at is a good model of a star, right?
<raptop>
Well, an M6V
<SnoopJeDi>
raptop, I try to give mine names with some degree of personality. This VPS is "denton" which possibly makes me a stereotype
<raptop>
JC or Alex?
<SnoopJeDi>
JC 😳
<SnoopJeDi>
I think I might like Alex's world a little better, though. Anyway, it seemed apropos of having something in "the cloud"
<SnoopJeDi>
actually the old VPS had the same name, but I figured nothing's amiss if I keep using it, it's not a name used anywhere but stuff that faces me
<raptop>
hah
<raptop>
Algorab being the name of this laptop because I wanted something astronomical + bird related. (And my previous work laptop was 55 Cancri, which is a slight namespace collision, so I wanted one that would not be a likely eggsoplanet host)
<WeylandsWings>
denton?
<WeylandsWings>
also i am one of those terrible people, my computer's name is New-Desktop
<SnoopJeDi>
WeylandsWings, family name of a series of augmented humans in the Deus Ex games
<SnoopJeDi>
raptop, Algorab is lovely indeed!
<SnoopJeDi>
my mind straight to Aquila, which is perhaps obvious
<SnoopJeDi>
went* straight
<raptop>
fair
<SnoopJeDi>
Algorab has a lot going for it though: individual star, smaller grain of reality, neat all in itself. But ALSO part of birb constellation
<SnoopJeDi>
a two-fer!
<raptop>
...it's 23:26 and I swear, I hear lawn equipment going
<kmath>
<whitequark> of all the strange things the cat has eaten so far, a croissant is one i have expected the least. a remarkable amou… https://t.co/Z32jZogKBz
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[Principia] szundi opened issue #2749: KSP complete crash when ship explodes reentering the atmosphere - https://git.io/JUN96
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[Principia] eggrobin commented on issue #2749: KSP complete crash when ship explodes reentering the atmosphere - https://git.io/JUN5B
<egg|laptop|egg>
whitequark: my cat ate some crème au beurre (butter- and yolk-based cream, literally "butter cream" but not the same thing as american buttercream) from a log cake a while ago so I would imagine cats can detect butter
<egg|laptop|egg>
and croissants are butter
<SnoopJeDi>
!wpn add:wpn sabre
* galois
gives add:wpn sabre an exploding tcsh republic
<SnoopJeDi>
okay
<SnoopJeDi>
!wpn -add:wpn sabre
<galois>
Added wpn 'sabre'
* UmbralRaptop
chooses to read that as fate/whatever sabre
<UmbralRaptop>
egg: meowvingian kings
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[Principia] pleroy opened pull request #2750: Change the projection algorithm to use Modified Gram-Schmidt - https://git.io/JUAzs