<kmath_>
<BLMedieval> She slays! Find Paris maidens facing dragons + more images of women in our catalogue for #InternationalWomensDay… https://t.co/lQQid4jkfh
<kmath_>
<diodelass> Patron Demoness of Electronic Misfortune Visits Local Hardworking Graduate Student https://t.co/Prh7dleIyA
<egg|principia|egg>
also we need to develop a pantheon around that
<Iskierka>
why do they have a weird elevated keyboard
<Iskierka>
is this a new mac thing
<Iskierka>
are they trying to cause RSI that prevents people using normal keyboards/mice
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<TentacularGalaxy>
egg|principia|egg: I reeeally wish I'd been wearing something besides jeans for that. I may re-stage it at some point in a long flowing skirt.
* Iskierka
needs to lose weight to fit in her nice dress again
<egg|principia|egg>
TentacularGalaxy: yeah, and maybe slightly less lighting, and thoughts about the objects in the frame...
<TentacularGalaxy>
Iskierka: the keyboard isn't elevated, it's just parked on top of the mac mini chassis. I think he takes it down to use it when he has room.
<egg|principia|egg>
TentacularGalaxy: should the demoness of electronic misfortune hold some sort of attributes to be identifiable as such?
<TentacularGalaxy>
and the lighting would've been better if my classmate hadn't used the flash. He's kind of an idiot, next time I will set the self-timer.
<egg|principia|egg>
TentacularGalaxy: the big shadow is nice though
<TentacularGalaxy>
maybe I can rig up some kind of triggering system to synchronize the shutter to the explosion of a capacitor on the end of a stick in my hand
<Iskierka>
google is very bad at finding out which version of english was spoken in 1301
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<egg|principia|egg>
TentacularGalaxy: ... please don't make the headlines
<TentacularGalaxy>
true. okay, I need to be holding an light source in my hands for a big shadow
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<Iskierka>
https://twitter.com/MARIADAHVANA/status/839116191713067009 compare UK, no paperwork that you have to fill in yourself, £8 a month if you've not yet negotiated the fact this is a chronic illness so you can get more than a month at once for same price. Where these £6 iphones at?
<kmath_>
<MARIADAHVANA> 1.5 bottles of insulin costs about the same amount as a new iPhone. I need a bottle every 3 weeks to stay alive. https://t.co/rMo5ALqbum
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<Iskierka>
I find the videos of helicopters with static rotors interesting. it means that, with not much more than a better controller, they could capture MUCH more light for post-enhancement or low-light performance, without dropping framerate
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<TentacularGalaxy>
oh yeah, my prof was talking about some machine at Argonne that has some Dr. Seussian name, and basically it just grabs organic molecules by their dipole moments using a laser, then blasts them to smithereens with the x-ray beam.
<Glaug-Eldare>
how about that artificial digestive system
<Glaug-Eldare>
that is amazing to me
<Glaug-Eldare>
it takes a room filled with space-age equipment to crudely replicate what happens inside a mouse's gut
<TentacularGalaxy>
once again, it turns out that hundreds of millions of years of slow optimization and version control are better at producing an efficient final product than a few decades of those things very fast.
<Iskierka>
well, in the million year version, the ones that don't work die, in the fast version some idiots will keep trying a stupid idea for years
<TentacularGalaxy>
exactly
<Iskierka>
plus the million year version literally has nanomachines
<Iskierka>
so that's a thing that helps
<TentacularGalaxy>
the million year version came up with nanomachines first. Everything else is just new ways of putting nanomachines together.
<Iskierka>
"I am just a large pile of nanomachines flying in vague proximity to one another"
<TentacularGalaxy>
artificial nanomachine-based macromachines are going to be *weird*
<Iskierka>
imagine debugging them though
<Iskierka>
"so I traced the error to machine model #12354436, but I can't see the error cause here, I think it's being triggered by another machine that isn't actually failing when it causes an unexpected condition ..."
<Iskierka>
plus the errors that turn them into eldrich horrors
* Iskierka
should probably go to bed instead of twitter
<TentacularGalaxy>
even without internal errors, I'm now imagining bots roughly the size of cells structuring themselves in roughly parallel ways to living organisms. Some take on roles of structure, others motion, signalling, resource transport...
<kmath_>
<allgebrah> tentacular galaxy sounds much better than spiral galaxy btw
<TentacularGalaxy>
they might even bleed
<TentacularGalaxy>
but then the errors will no doubt be horrifying. Tumorous growths appearing, appendages becoming malformed, sections losing cohesion and falling apart...
<Iskierka>
presumably bleed some hydraulic fluid filled with particles of required repair minerals at least
<TentacularGalaxy>
I'm imagining coolant as well. They'll undoubtedly need it.
<Iskierka>
I mean if you debugged it fully and used it as a cyborg body then in the reverse you could have a body that in a short time period can reconfigure into almost any equal-mass form
<TentacularGalaxy>
I understand the "short time period" thing is a fairly tall order.
<Iskierka>
or not even equal mass, could just dump spare nanomachines in a blob in a backpack
<Iskierka>
based on biology's achievements, sub-years would be a pretty good reference goal for reconfiguring a human-size organism
<TentacularGalaxy>
okay, sub-years, I'd believe that. Not hours, though, and certainly not seconds except for extremely small changes.
<TentacularGalaxy>
although I would expect it to be possibly much faster than biological cell growth since it wouldn't need to rely on slow processes like diffusion
<Iskierka>
iunno. If they're less sensitive to being disrupted than biological cells so they could deconstruct and reconstruct relatively freely, and have a sensibly useful instruction set, hours might be an achievable goal. Probably couldn't do much else at the same time, but the coolant flows could move things quickly
<Iskierka>
biology is definitely instruction set and response rate limited even on a small scale
<TentacularGalaxy>
also, if individual nanobots could be part of several different kinds of material (e.g. the same bots able to form rigid structural supports and contractile muscle-like robotissues) then changes could be pretty fast.
<TentacularGalaxy>
robo-tissues also parses as robot-issues
<Iskierka>
even just if you designed them with the intention of rearranging. Biology is a bit more rigid and just tries to fix it when it breaks
<Iskierka>
so long as they're designed to release, travel, and reassert, could happen quickly
<Iskierka>
might be limited by more than mass then, since would need type matching, but could do a lot of fun stuff
<egg|zzz|egg>
robot issues best issues
<Iskierka>
thought though: if want the nanomachines to be removable into temporary storage so variable mass is allowed, don't have communal nanomachine vats
<Iskierka>
that sounds like a great way to get roboaids
<Iskierka>
anyway, bed
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