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08:33 -!- AshleyWaffle [~waffle@gateway/tor-sasl/anastasiawyatt] has joined ##hplusroadmap 08:37 -!- ParahSailin [~parahsail@unaffiliated/parahsailin] has joined ##hplusroadmap 08:39 -!- AshleyWaffle [~waffle@gateway/tor-sasl/anastasiawyatt] has quit [Ping timeout: 264 seconds] 08:42 -!- ParahSailin [~parahsail@unaffiliated/parahsailin] has quit [Ping timeout: 255 seconds] 08:45 -!- chris_99 [~chris_99@unaffiliated/chris-99/x-3062929] has joined ##hplusroadmap 08:48 -!- FourFire [~fourfire@178-31-15.connect.netcom.no] has quit [Ping timeout: 244 seconds] 08:51 -!- kuldeepdhaka [~kuldeepdh@unaffiliated/kuldeepdhaka] has quit [Ping timeout: 272 seconds] 08:58 -!- kuldeepdhaka [~kuldeepdh@unaffiliated/kuldeepdhaka] has joined ##hplusroadmap 09:23 -!- AshleyWaffle [~waffle@gateway/tor-sasl/anastasiawyatt] has joined ##hplusroadmap 09:26 -!- ParahSailin [~parahsail@unaffiliated/parahsailin] has joined ##hplusroadmap 09:48 -!- kumavis [~kumavis@107-219-148-42.lightspeed.sntcca.sbcglobal.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 09:49 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@CPE-60-231-182-1.lns4.dav.bigpond.net.au] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 09:59 < gnusha> https://secure.diyhpl.us/cgit/diyhpluswiki/commit/?id=73d94953 DavidCary: Other discussions of various CAD packages >> http://diyhpl.us/diyhpluswiki/cadfaq/ 10:15 < kanzure> justanotheruser: would be nice 10:23 -!- delinquentme [~dingo@74.61.157.78] has joined ##hplusroadmap 10:24 < kanzure> his contact for someone selling him the tubing is azco biotech... 10:29 -!- delinquentme [~dingo@74.61.157.78] has left ##hplusroadmap ["Leaving"] 10:32 < kanzure> 100 pack of 1000 angstrom CPG columns for $350 http://azcobiotech.com/reagents/CPGCol.php 10:34 -!- nmz787_i [~nmccorkx@134.134.139.76] has joined ##hplusroadmap 10:35 -!- gene_hacker [~chatzilla@c-24-20-19-199.hsd1.or.comcast.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 10:36 -!- ElixirVitae [~Shehrazad@unaffiliated/shehrazad] has quit [Ping timeout: 272 seconds] 10:40 -!- HEx1 [~HEx@hexwab.plus.com] has quit [Ping timeout: 272 seconds] 10:40 -!- ElixirVitae [~Shehrazad@78.174.15.81] has joined ##hplusroadmap 10:40 -!- ElixirVitae [~Shehrazad@78.174.15.81] has quit [Changing host] 10:40 -!- ElixirVitae [~Shehrazad@unaffiliated/shehrazad] has joined ##hplusroadmap 10:44 < chris_99> don't spose anyone knows whether anyone can buy medical grade oxygen in the UK per chance 10:55 -!- HEx1 [~HEx@hexwab.plus.com] has joined ##hplusroadmap 10:56 < seba-> chris_99 why do you need it 10:57 < chris_99> oxygenation during fermentation, apparently you could get away with industrial, possibly 10:58 < seba-> chris_99, you can make it via electrolysis? 10:59 < seba-> also industrial would work ok imo 10:59 < chris_99> yeah it probably work actually 11:07 -!- eudoxia [~eudoxia@179.26.171.121] has quit [Quit: Lost terminal] 11:24 < kanzure> haha brlcad has no way to render an image in their library 11:28 -!- HEx1 [~HEx@hexwab.plus.com] has quit [Quit: Leaving.] 11:32 < ParahSailin> typical air contains about 200 mbar partial pressure of oxygen 11:34 < seba-> ParahSailin not where i am! 11:34 < ParahSailin> nepal? 11:36 < seba-> ParahSailin, no, here it's ~198 mbar on average, it's because of the altitude! 11:36 < seba-> :p 11:37 < seba-> oh well it's not such a difference :-( 11:37 < seba-> i thought it's more 11:37 < seba-> i can thou measure the difference 11:37 < seba-> in boiling of water 11:37 < seba-> it doesn't boil at 100 C 11:38 < kanzure> where did all this come from https://github.com/raj12lnm/python-brlcad/commits/master 11:38 -!- FourFire [~fourfire@237-254-15.connect.netcom.no] has joined ##hplusroadmap 11:39 < gradstudentbot> My experiment was working a second ago, but now it doesn't even work. 11:40 -!- FourFire [~fourfire@237-254-15.connect.netcom.no] has left ##hplusroadmap [] 11:43 -!- kumavis [~kumavis@107-219-148-42.lightspeed.sntcca.sbcglobal.net] has quit [Ping timeout: 255 seconds] 11:49 < nmz787_i> hmm, I really want one of these http://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/product-DPTS1/?PID=I:digitalpaper:digitalpaperproductpage 11:49 < nmz787_i> wish their price was 1/2 or 1/4 11:49 < nmz787_i> I have the opportunity to get one or two though 11:50 < nmz787_i> so I wonder if they fail to become a mass-available product, if I don't get one now, I may never 11:50 < chris_99> is it colour 11:51 < chris_99> oh apparently not 11:52 < ParahSailin> im sure if you wait, youll get something even better 11:53 < chris_99> mm fancy colour electrowetting displays should come out soooon 11:53 -!- joepie91__ [5064fe45@gateway/web/freenode/ip.80.100.254.69] has joined ##hplusroadmap 11:53 -!- joepie91_ [5064fe45@gateway/web/freenode/ip.80.100.254.69] has quit [Ping timeout: 246 seconds] 11:58 < nmz787_i> i care only about the size, and the ability to zoom PDFs in a smooth manner 12:23 -!- FourFire [~fourfire@229-145-15.connect.netcom.no] has joined ##hplusroadmap 12:24 -!- HEx1 [~HEx@hexwab.plus.com] has joined ##hplusroadmap 12:26 < kanzure> synthesizer is shipped 12:29 -!- delinquentme [~dingo@74.61.157.78] has joined ##hplusroadmap 12:31 -!- Viper168 [~Viper@unaffiliated/viper168] has quit [Ping timeout: 240 seconds] 12:32 -!- petrat [~asakharov@24.60.79.55] has joined ##hplusroadmap 12:36 < nmz787_i> schweet 12:37 < kanzure> i think we can buy all the chemicals from azco biotech 12:37 < kanzure> but the 6 weeks lifetime seems really really annoying 12:39 -!- Viper168 [~Viper@unaffiliated/viper168] has joined ##hplusroadmap 12:39 < gradstudentbot> Yeah, there's a clear trend. 12:40 -!- FourFire [~fourfire@229-145-15.connect.netcom.no] has left ##hplusroadmap ["Leaving"] 12:40 -!- sheena1 [~home@S0106c8fb2685eb55.ok.shawcable.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 12:42 < ParahSailin> phosphoramidite has that bad of shelf life? 12:45 < kanzure> nope, the phosphoramidite is distributed as a powder 12:45 < kanzure> and has longer shelf life 12:46 < kanzure> ammonium hydroxide has the "don't use after 2 weeks after opening" warning 12:46 < kanzure> in the manual 12:47 < kanzure> "Phosphoramidites are stable in powder form for one year and should be stored at room temperature in a desiccator. Once they are dissolved, they should be used within approximately two weeks. After this time, coupling efficiencies may decrease. If they cannot be used within this time, you can freeze, store, thaw and then reuse the phosphoramidites. However, they may show a loss of activity." 12:47 < ParahSailin> weird, ammonia must spontaneously turn into hydrazine or something, i better flush all my cleaning products down the toilet before they explode 12:48 < kanzure> ammonium hydroxide must also be stored at 4 celsius 12:49 < kanzure> "Since all phosphoramidite reservoirs are pressurized simultaneously with a single valve, all five bottles must be attached to the instrument, even if some are empty, to perform a synthesis. Phosphoramidites are extremely sensitive to acid, oxygen and water. Once they are in solution and the protective cap is removed, quickly put them on the instrument to prevent contamination." 12:50 < kanzure> acid, oxygen and water, might as well be sensitive to being looked at funny 12:50 < kanzure> "quickly put them on the instrument" lolz 12:50 < ParahSailin> sounds like an iron foundry 12:51 < ParahSailin> if you arent utilizing it at full capacity, best not to run it at all 12:51 < kanzure> that does not sound like a good way to prevent contamination 12:51 < ParahSailin> idt is the iron foundry 12:52 < kanzure> just think, this was all a nobel prize 12:53 < kanzure> for the 2 liters of "hazardous organic liquid waste" every 4 hours 12:53 < kanzure> i wonder if there was a nobel prize for the oil refinery 12:53 < kanzure> i demand it 12:55 < ParahSailin> oh, now i understand why inosine costs so much at idt 12:55 < kanzure> ""Upon opening the bottle, quickly place it on the instrument. Use in a well ventilated area and avoid inhalation. Store at room temperature."" 12:56 < kanzure> "Acetic anhydride-lutidine-tetrahydrofuran (THF), (1:1:8) is one half of the capping reagent. Atmospheric water will reduce its efficiency." 12:57 < kanzure> bad news... i'm pretty sure atmospheric water is impossible to completely get rid of. 12:57 < ParahSailin> do they tell you to store it with molecule sieves? 12:57 < kanzure> "This device is best operated in the vacuum of space." 12:58 < kanzure> better get some meth gas masks to operate this thing 12:59 < ParahSailin> lutidine smells like death 12:59 < kanzure> docs http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/DNA/abi391/ 13:00 < ParahSailin> better that you sent this death machine to nmz787_i 13:01 < ParahSailin> i do not have the necessary supply of forsaken children to use as the power source 13:01 < kanzure> that's okay, he'll get a cool biography titled "phosphoramidites i have known and loved" 13:02 < kanzure> (aren't i clever?) 13:03 < ParahSailin> too soon 13:03 < jrayhawk_> haha 13:19 -!- delinquentme [~dingo@74.61.157.78] has quit [Ping timeout: 245 seconds] 13:20 < kanzure> what's the difference between ctypes.c_voidp and ctypes.c_void_p? 13:23 < kanzure> nevermind, neither work for my situation 13:26 < ParahSailin> c_voidp = c_void_p # backwards compatibility (to a bug) 13:26 < kanzure> Segmentation fault, yo 13:27 < ParahSailin> http://svn.python.org/projects/external/ctypes/ctypes/__init__.py 13:34 < ParahSailin> paperbot: http://jls.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/04/03/0261927X14528804 13:34 < paperbot> http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/paperbot/A%20Few%20Prolific%20Liars%20Variation%20in%20the%20Prevalence%20of%20Lying.pdf 13:35 < kanzure> what is the criteria of prolific lying? 13:40 -!- Guest5260 [~someguy@46-239-208-113.tal.is] has joined ##hplusroadmap 13:41 -!- delinquentme [~dingo@74.61.157.78] has joined ##hplusroadmap 13:41 < kanzure> huh, 10 lies/day puts you in top 1% of liars 13:42 < kanzure> i wonder if you can count the same lie twice 13:44 < ParahSailin> no, thats double jeopardy 13:44 < nmz787_i> yeah I'm pretty sure we can't afford to actually run that 391 as-is 13:45 < kanzure> do the math before concluding that 13:45 < nmz787_i> subprocess is crashing my program, even though I have it in a try except 13:45 < nmz787_i> :/ 13:45 < kanzure> use sh 13:46 < kanzure> terrible name, but ok library 13:46 < kanzure> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sh 13:46 < ParahSailin> subprocess isnt crashing it; you are 13:48 < kanzure> hrm he hasn't done much since merging in my stuff https://github.com/amoffat/sh/commits/master 13:50 < kanzure> argh this guy needs to split up his pull requests :( https://github.com/kanzure/pokecrystal/pull/256/files 13:54 -!- delinquentme [~dingo@74.61.157.78] has quit [Ping timeout: 244 seconds] 13:54 -!- kumavis [~kumavis@107-219-148-42.lightspeed.sntcca.sbcglobal.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 13:57 -!- sapiosexual [~sapiosexu@d50-92-49-11.bchsia.telus.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 14:02 < catern> http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167577X13006538 14:03 < catern> paperbot: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167577X13006538 14:03 < paperbot> http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/paperbot/56253bfde47aa367ca29b872bc50577b.txt 14:05 < ParahSailin> oh sweet i have lots of goat hair 14:05 < kanzure> yeah there was another weird paper the other day about using yarn for microfluidics 14:06 < catern> so does paperbot's scrapers all live on university networks where they can scrape papers? 14:06 < kanzure> but i'm not sure how you're supposed to weave that tiny 14:06 < kanzure> paperbot travels through a transdimensional portal to a universe where papers are easily accessed 14:06 < catern> ah that is much simpler 14:06 < kanzure> https://github.com/kanzure/paperbot 14:06 < catern> clever to do that 14:07 < ParahSailin> catern is actually willing to provide a vm behind a paywall for us 14:07 < catern> I saw, but I still don't get it 14:07 < catern> oh, yeah, I am 14:07 < kanzure> hm, at the moment paperbot does not have the ability to abuse that arrangement 14:07 < kanzure> but it is worth adding 14:11 < catern> well if it develops that capability, this is a standing offer 14:12 < ParahSailin> i would do a kickstarter to make paperbot work 14:12 < ParahSailin> money is probably the only thing that would make me care enough to finish the job 14:12 < catern> it would be nice to have an automated process to scrape things direct to libgen or wherever 14:13 < ParahSailin> thats what was intended 14:13 < catern> ah 14:13 < kanzure> kickstarter is a bad idea 14:13 < kanzure> you don't want that much attention 14:13 < kanzure> if you need money just fucking ask argh 14:14 < kanzure> but also, i'm paying dpk to do paperbot things 14:14 < kanzure> and joepie91__ 14:14 < kanzure> i forgot about those two for a moment 14:14 < ParahSailin> oh 14:14 < ParahSailin> still id rather have money from suckers instead 14:15 < ParahSailin> because i wouldnt feel so bad that it could have been used better 14:15 < catern> attention is useful, though, so you can "crowdsource" the scraping and make it go faster/safer 14:15 < catern> you want some attention at some point 14:15 < catern> (Maybe?????) 14:16 < kanzure> if you get attention then the universities cut you off 14:16 < kanzure> i had a small android proxy app at some point, but you still have to do centralized communication with some server (possibly over tor) 14:16 < catern> ah... that is a lot easier way to block it, hm 14:17 < kanzure> if you say you're downloading from university of utah, they will just block you 14:17 < kanzure> and putting it on kickstarter is a good way to get noticed 14:17 < catern> that sure would be dystopian, though. universities blocking access to a website with papers 14:17 < kanzure> the android proxy idea was so that students could arbitrarily run the app themselves 14:17 < kanzure> and then get paid in bitcoin from an anonymous service 14:17 < catern> people will do it voluntarily 14:17 < kanzure> universities constantly block people downloading papers 14:18 < gradstudentbot> I really like him, but some of his work is really problematic. 14:18 < catern> yeah, but you're suggesting they might block access to the server they're uploading to. 14:18 < catern> scary to think of my uni blocking libgen 14:18 < kanzure> libgen will get blocked above the university level 14:18 < kanzure> dns level etc 14:19 < catern> well, anyway, there's an easy middle ground. i'm sure many people would be willing to run a drop-in VM image on a university network 14:20 < kanzure> if you are going to disturb the hornet nest, you should have a better plan than (1) publicly stating your name, (2) publicly stating who you're going to attack, and (3) putting it in front of 100's of thousands of people who will turn around and inform the publishers ("because it's stealing") 14:20 < catern> and that way you can avoid downloading at such a high rate to be suspicious 14:20 < catern> or just an application 14:21 < catern> so don't publicly state your name or who you'll attack 14:21 < kanzure> iirc there has never been an anonymous kickstarter campaign 14:21 < pasky> i could host something too i guess 14:21 < catern> oh, i wasn't thinking you'd actually use kickstarter 14:21 < kanzure> you fucking said kickstarter :( 14:21 < catern> there are plenty of self-hostable clones 14:21 < catern> ParahSailin said kickstarter! 14:22 < kanzure> oh, well fuck him too then 14:22 < ParahSailin> i recuse myself 14:22 < catern> i don't know why technical projects use kickstarter 14:22 < kanzure> because it's an advertising channel 14:22 -!- helleshin [~talinck@66-161-138-110.ubr1.dyn.lebanon-oh.fuse.net] has quit [Quit: Connection reset by bear] 14:22 < nmz787_i> kanzure: shame on you for recommending things I can't use "if "windows" in platform.system().lower(): 14:22 < nmz787_i> raise ImportError("sh %s is currently only supported on linux and osx. \ 14:22 < nmz787_i> please install pbs 0.110 (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pbs) for windows \ 14:22 < nmz787_i> support." % __version__) 14:22 < nmz787_i> " 14:22 < catern> does it really have network effects? but there are so many clones 14:22 < kanzure> nmz787_i: shame on you for using windows, that's your own fault 14:23 < kanzure> catern: kickstarter.com definitely has huge network effects 14:23 < ParahSailin> nmz787_i: whats wrong with subprocess 14:23 < kanzure> catern: indiegogo is pathetic in comparison 14:23 < catern> jesus kickstarter is 5%? i thought it was like 1% 14:23 < catern> kanzure: i guess i just can't visualize the kind of person who regularly browses kickstarter 14:23 < kanzure> redditor 14:24 < kanzure> easily distracted by helvetica 14:24 < kanzure> and youtube videos 14:24 < catern> but they actually go to kickstarter, the site itself? not just individual projects? 14:24 < catern> anyway 14:24 < kanzure> there's been studies on that 14:24 < catern> ah? 14:25 < kanzure> people go back to check on the previous projects they funded, it shows other projects to them based on their interests 14:25 < catern> ahhhh 14:25 < kanzure> if you're trending then you show up on their category views 14:25 < catern> i've never funded anything so I wouldn't know 14:25 < kanzure> i think at least 20% is from previous users 14:25 < kanzure> still need to have a campaign to get users and traffic flowing to your page though 14:26 < kanzure> (this usually means terrible press releases and paying off journalists) 14:26 < catern> anyway I can totally see even a self-hosted kickstarter-style campaign getting massive traction, lots of people want to get access to papers 14:26 < kanzure> you also have to make sure you fund 10% of it on your own within the first 5-30 minutes 14:26 < kanzure> i don't remember any self-hosted crowdfunding campaign that raised any significant amount of money, ever 14:26 < kanzure> (crowdfunding blows man) 14:26 < catern> there's been some games 14:27 < catern> mediagoblin recently 14:27 < kanzure> were those pre-orders 14:27 < catern> not very significant 14:27 < catern> well, yeah 14:27 < kanzure> :smug: 14:27 < catern> i think i will start a startup 14:27 < catern> and apply to YC 14:27 < kanzure> anyway, i'll try not to discourage you too much from putting together your own campaign 14:27 < kanzure> for stealing papers from universities? 14:27 < catern> and our product will be a 14:27 < catern> paper-stealer 14:27 < catern> yes 14:28 < catern> i wonder if you could legitimize it somehow 14:28 < ParahSailin> mega's plausible deniability strategy seems like it might stand up in some courts 14:28 < catern> because there's a huge demand 14:28 < kanzure> findrs fees 14:28 < kanzure> *finders fees 14:28 < kanzure> mendeley legitimized it 14:29 < kanzure> and somehow researchgate is doing the same thing 14:29 -!- augur [~augur@216-164-48-148.c3-0.slvr-ubr1.lnh-slvr.md.cable.rcn.com] has quit [Ping timeout: 240 seconds] 14:29 < gradstudentbot> I am kind of curious what he has a Ph.D. in, I can't really find this anywhere, it could be underwater basket weaving for all I know. 14:29 < kanzure> they are probably doing the "author of the paper shares it" strategy 14:29 < catern> you can get random papers off mendeley? 14:30 < kanzure> not anymore haha 14:30 < kanzure> used to 14:30 < kanzure> mendeley was uploading all your papers to their servers 14:30 < kanzure> "for ocr metadata reasons" 14:30 < catern> someone needs to re-legitimize it then 14:30 < catern> get a few mil in VC funding 14:30 < catern> run for a few years 14:30 < catern> then go out in a blaze of lawsuits 14:31 < kanzure> and why would they give you money 14:31 < ParahSailin> serial bankruptcy is how lots of people get money 14:31 < joepie91__> because intellectual synergy cloud reprioritization strategy acquisition 14:31 < joepie91__> pls2gief money 14:32 < joepie91__> (that seems to work for most VC-funded stuff) 14:32 < kanzure> there is often strategy that they don't reveal to the public 14:32 < joepie91__> kanzure: you mean like HSBC funding drug cartels? :P 14:33 < kanzure> hsbc drug cartels wasn't venture capital fundraising 14:33 < kanzure> argh wtf 14:34 < kanzure> another plausible answer to "why would they give you money" is "because we'll make them a crapload of money by doing x" 14:34 < catern> maybe just persuade one of the PDF upload sites to have proper indexing and paper-finding whatever stuff 14:35 < catern> advertisements on papers 14:35 < catern> advertisements inserted between every 5 pages of the PDFs 14:35 < kanzure> some of the publishers are doing advertisements on papers 14:35 < kanzure> pdfparanoia strips them out :) (at least one publisher's ads, at least) 14:36 < gradstudentbot> These findings indicate that extensive genetic engineering of human hematopoiesis can be achieved with lentiviral vectors. 14:36 < kanzure> https://github.com/kanzure/pdfparanoia 14:36 < nmz787_i> ParahSailin: using pythonw to open a .py file which calls subprocess.Popen with PIPEs, this process then calls subprocess.Popen 14:37 < nmz787_i> ParahSailin: the first time the first subprocess child calls subprocess.Popen ti works, the second time it crashes 14:37 < ParahSailin> crashes how 14:37 < nmz787_i> ParahSailin: http://pastebin.com/kzBzHttP 14:37 < nmz787_i> ParahSailin: crashes and doesn't hit the except, seemingly 14:38 < nmz787_i> as I over-rode sys.stderr and sys.stdout to also print to to a file 14:38 < joepie91__> kanzure: I was joking :) 14:38 < nmz787_i> so even though the GUI crashes... I thought I'd still retain the errors 14:38 < joepie91__> catern: PDF upload site operator here, what do you need 14:38 < kanzure> joepie91__: lots of people honestly hold that opinion 14:38 < nmz787_i> but they aren't making it to the file 14:38 < joepie91__> kanzure: Poe's law 14:38 < joepie91__> :P 14:38 < nmz787_i> and strangely the pythonw.exe lingers 14:39 < gradstudentbot> I need to send that abstract. 14:39 < ParahSailin> use the strace 14:41 < catern> joepie91__: some way to make sure the ripped PDFs on your site don't go away when you do 14:41 < gradstudentbot> Can I get some more media? 14:41 < catern> joepie91__: also a generic interface would be nice too 14:41 < joepie91__> catern: my site auto-mirrors all public docs to IA on an hourly cronjob 14:41 < joepie91__> http://pdf.yt/ 14:42 < ParahSailin> (do all serious windows work on cygwin) 14:42 < joepie91__> as for generic interface, what do you mean? 14:42 < kanzure> ParahSailin: yeah, at this point windows is too annoying for me without cygwin 14:42 < kanzure> ParahSailin: even if i end up calling windows binaries, still.. 14:42 -!- kuldeepdhaka [~kuldeepdh@unaffiliated/kuldeepdhaka] has quit [Ping timeout: 264 seconds] 14:42 < catern> joepie91__: like the libgens, they're all identical and interchangeable so when one goes down no-one cares. hmm, does libgen have an API? 14:43 < ParahSailin> libgen is russian php 14:43 < joepie91__> I think they offer dumps 14:43 < joepie91__> or did so in the past, anyway 14:43 < ParahSailin> does the kalashnikov have an api? 14:43 < catern> i have wanted to upload things to libgen 14:43 < catern> but could not find out how 14:43 < joepie91__> but yeah, libgen is more of a paper/book hosting service, PDFy is more of a generic PDF hostt 14:44 < joepie91__> host * 14:44 < joepie91__> though I'm looking into ODT/EPUB support in the long term 14:44 < kanzure> not dumps, torrents 14:44 < kanzure> which nobody seeds 14:44 < ParahSailin> catern: see paperbot in github for how to upload 14:44 < kanzure> because who has time to seed 12 TB of torrents 14:44 * bkero raises hand 14:44 < kanzure> well go do it 14:45 < bkero> Assuming good saturation I can do it in a little bit over a day. 14:45 < catern> ParahSailin: well I think I did find out but my PDF was too big for their public api or something 14:45 < joepie91__> bkero: I think the saturation was a problem 14:45 < joepie91__> :p 14:45 < kanzure> there's only one seeder 14:45 < kanzure> has been for years 14:45 < bkero> oh, huh 14:45 < kanzure> everyone else has been too lazy 14:45 < bkero> Wait, 12TB torrent. What is it? 14:45 * joepie91__ doesn't have 12TB space 14:45 < kanzure> no, about 1000 torrents, a total of 12 TB 14:46 < bkero> oh 14:46 < catern> clerical data 14:46 < kanzure> each one is about 10,000 pdfs 14:47 < catern> bittorrent is a nice protocol for distributed shared immutable files 14:47 < catern> i.e. exactly this 14:47 < catern> er 14:47 < catern> distributed shared is repeating myself repetitively 14:47 < kanzure> i would say it's only good if people actually seed it 14:47 < kanzure> so, go seed it yourself 14:49 < catern> bittorrent just needs better tooling so people can seed the PDFs they download without having to keep them in the same place or with the same name 14:49 < kanzure> huh? 14:50 < kanzure> so you mean "people should invent symlinks" ? 14:50 < catern> yes 14:50 < bkero> or hardlinks 14:51 < catern> hm, does inotify tell you when a file is moved, and where it moves? 14:51 < catern> or 14:51 < catern> yeah 14:51 < bkero> If you just keep the torrent daemon running, you can move the file and it will still seed 14:51 < kanzure> moving files around sounds like an extremely unrelated issue 14:51 < catern> or just hardlinks 14:51 < bkero> since it keeps the fd open 14:52 < catern> so, then. someone needs to write a tiny bit of glue code that hardlinks your libgen pdfs together, grouped by torrent 14:52 < catern> in directories, i mean 14:53 < gradstudentbot> Who got mustard on my cell culture? 14:53 < catern> bkero: but what happens when you restart 14:53 < catern> kanzure: i'm just saying why i personally don't send all the libgen pdfs i have on my system 14:53 < kanzure> you think that the lack of the glue code is the reason why nobody is seeding? 14:53 < catern> seed* 14:53 < joepie91__> I should probably mention here that popcorn time does a similar thing for streaming video, and it got the MPAA pretty scared 14:53 < catern> it's why i'm not seeding 14:53 < kanzure> *that's* the reason why you're not seeding?? 14:53 < catern> yes, it's too much effort 14:53 < joepie91__> catern: FWIW, some clients like Tixati let you move the file from the client interface itself 14:53 < catern> i'd have to figure out which PDF is from which torrent 14:54 < joepie91__> and it'll happily continue seeding from the new location 14:54 < kanzure> that's the silliest reason i have heard :) 14:54 < joepie91__> (or even change the location after the fact, and it'll pick up on the original file that's already there) 14:54 < catern> which would be a pain 14:54 < bkero> catern: why would you restart? 14:55 < catern> bkero: because Big Publishing found a linux 0day and they're coming after your box 14:56 < bkero> catern: Okay. I'll take those chances. 14:56 < joepie91__> if you're bored, write a graphical frontend that lets you search libgen for documents, and then automatically seeds them as you download them 14:56 < joepie91__> problem solved 14:56 < kanzure> .title http://torrent.rus.ec/viewforum.php?f=186 14:56 < yoleaux> Библиотека 'Либрусек' (Официальные релизы) :: torrent.rus.ec 14:56 < joepie91__> (partially seeded torrents are a thing) 14:56 < catern> that's what I'm suggesting, except without the graphical frontend 14:56 -!- kuldeepdhaka [~kuldeepdh@unaffiliated/kuldeepdhaka] has joined ##hplusroadmap 14:56 < bkero> joepie91__: didn't someone get prosecuted and hounded until he committed suicide for similar behavior? 14:57 < catern> since you can just hash your downloaded pdfs to find out which pdf they correspond to in the torrent 14:57 < joepie91__> bkero: can't recall that 14:57 < catern> it doesn't sound too hard, actually 14:57 < kanzure> bkero: no, aaronsw didn't reach the stage of prosecution iirc 14:57 < catern> i wish libgen wasn't so russian 14:57 < kanzure> what's wrong with russian 14:57 < bkero> kanzure: the hounding stage? 14:57 < catern> i would like to read their forums and stuff 14:58 < kanzure> learn some fucking russian, don't be a baby 14:58 * joepie91__ doesn't see what aaron has to do with above proposal? 14:58 < kanzure> joepie91__: bkero mentioned him 14:58 < ParahSailin> the letters are just greek with some hairy bits 14:58 < catern> english-language chauvinism has served me well so far 14:58 -!- nmz787_i1 [nmccorkx@nat/intel/x-yxfbaiyxsqqrxajn] has joined ##hplusroadmap 14:58 < joepie91__> yes, I'm refering to [23:57] joepie91__: didn't someone get prosecuted and hounded until he committed suicide for similar behavior? 14:58 < joepie91__> there's a pretty big difference between writing a graphical frontend, and mass-downloading documents 14:58 < kanzure> русский язык, как сладкий запах навоза 14:59 < joepie91__> even if both are morally absolutely okay, they're not the same kind of thing 14:59 < kanzure> agreed 14:59 < joepie91__> and likely won't trigger the same kind of response 14:59 < kanzure> "with some hairy bits" haha 15:00 -!- delinquentme [~dingo@74.61.157.78] has joined ##hplusroadmap 15:01 -!- nmz787_i [~nmccorkx@134.134.139.76] has quit [Ping timeout: 240 seconds] 15:03 < catern> is there a place that has all the torrent files rather than magnet links for libgen? 15:03 < kanzure> it's on one of the servers by ftp 15:07 -!- catern [~catern@catern.com] has quit [Ping timeout: 245 seconds] 15:07 -!- catern [~catern@catern.com] has joined ##hplusroadmap 15:09 -!- kuldeepdhaka [~kuldeepdh@unaffiliated/kuldeepdhaka] has quit [Ping timeout: 264 seconds] 15:12 -!- EnLilaSko [EnLilaSko@unaffiliated/enlilasko] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 15:13 -!- sapiosexual [~sapiosexu@d50-92-49-11.bchsia.telus.net] has quit [Quit: No calling card for the unsung bard] 15:20 < kanzure> if you find it, drop the link 15:21 -!- nmz787_i [~nmccorkx@134.134.139.76] has joined ##hplusroadmap 15:23 -!- nmz787_i1 [nmccorkx@nat/intel/x-yxfbaiyxsqqrxajn] has quit [Ping timeout: 245 seconds] 15:24 -!- kuldeepdhaka [~kuldeepdh@unaffiliated/kuldeepdhaka] has joined ##hplusroadmap 15:25 -!- TeMPOraL [~user@89-68-70-120.dynamic.chello.pl] has quit [Quit: ERC Version 5.3 (IRC client for Emacs)] 15:32 < joepie91__> http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/28h3z6/us_government_accidentally_reveals_private/ 15:32 < joepie91__> "oops" 15:32 < kanzure> .tell nmz787 alltronics stuff has shipped 15:32 < yoleaux> kanzure: I'll pass your message to nmz787. 15:33 < kanzure> joepie91__: neat trick, although i htink it's a public list (e.g., not the people that have paid $200k? not sure) 15:33 < kanzure> it may be the "sign up for announcements" list 15:33 < joepie91__> I think that's exactly what it was. 15:33 < joepie91__> lol 15:44 < kanzure> .tell nmz787 alltronics shipping charges cost more than the synthesizer shipping charges 15:44 < yoleaux> kanzure: I'll pass your message to nmz787. 15:46 < nmz787_i> huh 15:46 -!- kuldeepdhaka [~kuldeepdh@unaffiliated/kuldeepdhaka] has quit [Ping timeout: 272 seconds] 15:48 -!- augur [~augur@216-164-48-148.c3-0.slvr-ubr1.lnh-slvr.md.cable.rcn.com] has joined ##hplusroadmap 15:49 -!- augur [~augur@216-164-48-148.c3-0.slvr-ubr1.lnh-slvr.md.cable.rcn.com] has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer] 15:50 -!- augur [~augur@216-164-48-148.c3-0.slvr-ubr1.lnh-slvr.md.cable.rcn.com] has joined ##hplusroadmap 15:59 -!- catern [~catern@catern.com] has quit [Ping timeout: 245 seconds] 16:01 < kanzure> hm there's a python-librtlsdr and pyrtlsdr http://sdr.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/rtl-sdr 16:04 -!- catern [~catern@catern.com] has joined ##hplusroadmap 16:11 -!- Guest5260 [~someguy@46-239-208-113.tal.is] has quit [Ping timeout: 264 seconds] 16:14 -!- catern [~catern@catern.com] has quit [Ping timeout: 245 seconds] 16:15 < kanzure> someone is claiming lildlper is doing 37 micron layers 16:15 < kanzure> https://www.dropbox.com/s/wkvjlql3vhhavse/trexScaleB.tif 16:15 < kanzure> with this 1080p projector http://www.amazon.com/Acer-H6510BD-Theater-Projector-White/dp/B00B97ZKIA 16:15 -!- nmz787_i [~nmccorkx@134.134.139.76] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 16:16 -!- nmz787_i [~nmccorkx@134.134.139.76] has joined ##hplusroadmap 16:16 -!- nmz787_i [~nmccorkx@134.134.139.76] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 16:16 -!- nmz787_i [~nmccorkx@134.134.139.76] has joined ##hplusroadmap 16:16 < kanzure> larger prints: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ktwaaavu5pv5ans/2014-06-13%2017.32.02.jpg 16:17 < kanzure> rabbit next to penny https://www.dropbox.com/s/crfls4d3gba64j5/2014-06-12%2018.29.32.jpg 16:20 -!- catern [~catern@catern.com] has joined ##hplusroadmap 16:28 -!- eudoxia [~eudoxia@r190-135-56-176.dialup.adsl.anteldata.net.uy] has joined ##hplusroadmap 16:30 -!- eudoxia [~eudoxia@r190-135-56-176.dialup.adsl.anteldata.net.uy] has quit [Client Quit] 16:40 -!- chris_99 [~chris_99@unaffiliated/chris-99/x-3062929] has quit [Quit: Leaving] 16:48 < kanzure> why didn't any of those "3d printer plastic" bacterial culture companies ever do anything 16:49 < kanzure> did it turn out to be more expensive than making normal plastic spools? 17:01 -!- yorick [~yorick@oftn/member/yorick] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 17:11 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@CPE-60-231-182-1.lns4.dav.bigpond.net.au] has joined ##hplusroadmap 17:23 -!- ParahSailin [~parahsail@unaffiliated/parahsailin] has quit [Ping timeout: 240 seconds] 17:30 -!- AshleyWaffle [~waffle@gateway/tor-sasl/anastasiawyatt] has quit [Ping timeout: 264 seconds] 17:38 -!- ElixirVitae [~Shehrazad@unaffiliated/shehrazad] has quit [Ping timeout: 245 seconds] 17:39 -!- AshleyWaffle [~waffle@gateway/tor-sasl/anastasiawyatt] has joined ##hplusroadmap 17:40 -!- ParahSailin [~parahsail@unaffiliated/parahsailin] has joined ##hplusroadmap 17:41 -!- kyknos [~kyknos@89.233.130.143] has quit [Ping timeout: 264 seconds] 17:44 -!- snuffeluffegus [~John@homie-vserver314.dreamhost.com] has joined ##hplusroadmap 17:45 -!- ElixirVitae [~Shehrazad@unaffiliated/shehrazad] has joined ##hplusroadmap 17:45 -!- yashgaroth [~ffffff@cpe-76-167-105-53.san.res.rr.com] has joined ##hplusroadmap 17:47 < ParahSailin> i had one of those strains 17:47 < ParahSailin> guess who didnt want it 17:50 < kanzure> was it me? fuck me 17:53 * kanzure looks at http://cs.umd.edu/~amiller/nonoutsourceable_full.pdf 17:53 -!- delinquentme [~dingo@74.61.157.78] has quit [Ping timeout: 240 seconds] 17:54 -!- kyknos [~kyknos@89.233.130.143] has joined ##hplusroadmap 17:54 < nmz787_i> http://www.unece.org/trans/danger/publi/ghs/ghs_welcome_e.html 17:54 < nmz787_i> 'Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS)' 17:55 < kanzure> wasn't there an IUPAC classification thing 17:55 < nmz787_i> http://www.unece.org/trans/danger/publi/ghs/pictograms.html 17:56 < nmz787_i> umm, IUPAC is naming/acronym rules I guess 17:56 < kanzure> which symbol should i use for "curses your gametes with black magic"? 17:57 < kanzure> ah, perfect http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/trans/danger/publi/ghs/TDGpictograms/5-2red_noir.gif 17:57 < nmz787_i> heheh 17:57 < nmz787_i> radiation? 17:57 < kanzure> oh is black magic supposed to be radiation? 17:57 < kanzure> that would explain a lot 17:58 < nmz787_i> http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/cen-v036n027.p044 17:58 < paperbot> http://libgen.org/scimag/get.php?doi=10.1021%2Fcen-v036n027.p044 17:58 < nmz787_i> 'now with more cyanide!; 17:59 < nmz787_i> huh, 1958 date on that article/advert 17:59 < kanzure> how does azco biotech store its chemicals if these can only be stored for 6 weeks at a time 17:59 < nmz787_i> damn pay-walled advertisments 17:59 < nmz787_i> kanzure: the ammonia thing is probably just cause its a dissolved gas 18:00 -!- seba- [~hel1@cpe-90-157-233-7.static.amis.net] has quit [Read error: No route to host] 18:00 < nmz787_i> "Your current credentials do not allow retrieval of the full text." 18:00 -!- seba-- [~hel1@cpe-90-157-233-7.static.amis.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 18:00 < nmz787_i> "You haven't paid us to see this paid-advertisement." 18:01 < kanzure> so ammonium hydroxide is the only problematic one? 18:01 < nmz787_i> idk 18:01 < nmz787_i> haven't read the docs yet 18:01 < nmz787_i> but liters of waster per 100 bases will not be cheap to dispose of 18:02 < kanzure> docs claim it can be dissolved safely in "earth" 18:02 < nmz787_i> not to mention buying all those reagents that are just getting flushed through 18:02 < nmz787_i> heh 18:02 < nmz787_i> I wonder if they're pre-EPA 18:02 < nmz787_i> this library has a james-bond like girl for their logo http://wyld.sdp.sirsi.net/client/en_US/wmc/search/detailnonmodal;jsessionid=E3330DFA99DA5295B912EFBCC166880C.enterprise-35500?qu=Sampling.&d=ent%3A%2F%2FSD_ILS%2F833%2FSD_ILS%3A833057~ILS~0~16879&ic=true&ps=300 18:03 < kanzure> "Discard the waste. Place the liquid in a sealed container labeled “FLAMMABLE,” “POISON B N.O.S.” or absorb in vermiculite, dry sand or earth. Dispose of the waste following applicable government regulations. When handling the waste for disposal, wear gloves and eye protection, and avoid inhalation and skin contact." 18:04 < nmz787_i> http://will.state.wy.us/wyld/ent/wmc_ent_logo.bmp 18:05 < nmz787_i> kanzure: pretty sure waste companies would charge more if it was absorbed into some solid 18:05 < nmz787_i> more weight to haul in their trucks, more processing to do I'd assume 18:05 < nmz787_i> unless they just load the soil into their oven thing 18:05 < nmz787_i> incinerator 18:08 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@CPE-60-231-182-1.lns4.dav.bigpond.net.au] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 18:11 < nmz787_i> kanzure: apparently this is used for "reproductive Toxins' http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/GHS-pictogram-silhouete.svg 18:15 < ParahSailin> put it down drain to sewer 18:16 < ParahSailin> wastewater treatment plants are very effective bioreactors for neutralizing chemicals 18:18 < yashgaroth> pretty much, yeah 18:18 < nmz787_i> I don't think that's a good idea 18:18 < yashgaroth> it's fiiiiiine 18:20 < ParahSailin> oh, are you telling me you know more about activated sludge reactors? 18:20 < yashgaroth> if you're that worried, just run the tap while you're dumping it 18:21 < nmz787_i> no, but I won't do something like that until I read through things on my own 18:34 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@CPE-60-231-182-1.lns4.dav.bigpond.net.au] has joined ##hplusroadmap 18:35 < nmz787_i> I should probably do something about the unpolymerized acrylamide that I've been keeping in the back of my fridge for the last year 18:37 < ebowden> Isn't that stuff extremely toxic? 18:37 < yashgaroth> only if you have neurons 18:38 < nmz787_i> it's capped and in a cold fridge, and I think in a sealed bag maybe 18:38 < nmz787_i> I keep it next to my grass-fed raw milk 18:39 < nmz787_i> not really, it's just in the back corner of the fridge 18:39 < nmz787_i> supposedly the first thing to happen toxin-wise is your finger tips start to tingle 18:41 -!- nmz787_i1 [nmccorkx@nat/intel/x-pajuhgzskxyfhauk] has joined ##hplusroadmap 18:41 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@CPE-60-231-182-1.lns4.dav.bigpond.net.au] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 18:41 -!- nmz787_i1 [nmccorkx@nat/intel/x-pajuhgzskxyfhauk] has quit [Client Quit] 18:44 -!- nmz787_i [~nmccorkx@134.134.139.76] has quit [Ping timeout: 244 seconds] 18:56 < kanzure> ParahSailin: why is antibiotic resistance used for selection rather than toxin/toxin resistance? 18:57 < ParahSailin> isnt that basically the same thing to a bug? 18:57 < kanzure> i mean lab reasons 18:58 < kanzure> plate, antibiotic resistance screen, look for gfp, etc 18:58 < ParahSailin> what do you mean by toxin as opposed to antibiotic 19:01 < kanzure> sorry, i'm mixing up my signals 19:02 < kanzure> iirc, most people use penicillin for their lab work 19:03 < kanzure> which seems like a bad idea, since we use penicillin for medical reasons 19:03 < kanzure> so ideally you would use different options for random lab work so you don't accidentally confer penicillin resistance to everything under the sun 19:03 < yashgaroth> nobody uses it for bacterial selection, pen/strep is used to keep stuff from growing in other cell cultures 19:04 < kanzure> i wish i could remember what the hell i've used 19:04 < yashgaroth> ampicillin, tetracycline, kanamycin, chloramphenicol are the big ones 19:06 < yashgaroth> also we use antibiotics since we know what the resistance genes are, finding a suitable 'toxin' and then trying to find a resistance gene for it sounds like a huge hassle and biologists are lazy 19:12 < nmz787> chloramphenicol isn't allowed for human use in this country 19:12 < yoleaux> 18 Jun 2014 22:33Z nmz787: alltronics stuff has shipped 19:12 < yoleaux> 18 Jun 2014 22:44Z nmz787: alltronics shipping charges cost more than the synthesizer shipping charges 19:12 < nmz787> other countries are less strict 19:12 < nmz787> so I'm thinking the synthesizer might be retrofittable 19:13 < pasky> to expand on that a bit, i'd expect that as bacterias typically easily gain resistance to antibiotics naturally over time, which means it is easy to compare the bacteria strain "before" and "after"... I'd imagine gaining resistance to some random toxin can be quite more challenging for the bacteria? 19:13 < nmz787> probably swap a microfluidic in for the column 19:13 < nmz787> pasky: why would it be easier/harder to evolve one thing or another? 19:14 < nmz787> the main difference would be if a detox solution would need multiple enzymes, lots of aminos to hold the enzyme together or if the reaction sequence it needed was all over the target molecule 19:14 < nmz787> needing to interact all over the target molecule i mean 19:14 < nmz787> or if multiple enzymes were needed 19:15 < nmz787> and how much of that would be mutated from old stuff 19:15 < nmz787> or be de novo generated 19:15 < nmz787> kanzure: it might be easier to ask about certain toxins you'd think might be useful 19:16 < kanzure> no, i was probably spacing on penicillin vs ampicillin 19:16 < yashgaroth> re: chloramphenicol, apparently "Gray baby syndrome" is a thing heh 19:18 < kanzure> .wik gray baby syndrome 19:18 < yoleaux> "Gray baby syndrome (also termed Gray or Grey syndrome) is a rare but serious side effect that occurs in newborn infants (especially premature babies) following the intravenous administration of the antimicrobial chloramphenicol." — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_baby_syndrome 19:18 < nmz787> ~~~~ 19:19 < yashgaroth> "why is my baby gray?" "I'm afraid he has gray baby syndrome" "fuck you're a useless doctor" 19:20 < kanzure> "thanks to smelly squid biotech, your baby can come out glowing with the best of them" 19:21 -!- snuffeluffegus [~John@homie-vserver314.dreamhost.com] has quit [Quit: Leaving] 19:29 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@CPE-60-231-178-117.lns4.dav.bigpond.net.au] has joined ##hplusroadmap 19:35 < kanzure> *** Error in `/home/kanzure/.virtualenvs/brlcad/bin/python': invalid fastbin entry (free): 0x0000000003b46b90 *** 19:46 -!- ThomasEgi [~thomas@panda3d/ThomasEgi] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 19:48 -!- kumavis [~kumavis@107-219-148-42.lightspeed.sntcca.sbcglobal.net] has quit [Ping timeout: 255 seconds] 20:02 < pasky> heh, nobody wrote a tool for on-gpu tile-wise seamless affine transform of huge image surfaces yet? 20:05 -!- jmil [~jmil@hive76/member/jmil] has quit [Quit: jmil] 20:10 -!- joepie91__ [5064fe45@gateway/web/freenode/ip.80.100.254.69] has quit [Ping timeout: 246 seconds] 20:23 < kanzure> nmz787: i'm still not convinced that disposal service is necessary ("dry sand") 20:23 < nmz787> i believe so 20:23 < nmz787> what is the link 20:23 < kanzure> in manual, http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/DNA/abi391/ 20:23 < kanzure> http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/DNA/abi391/ABI%20391-manual.pdf 20:26 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@CPE-60-231-178-117.lns4.dav.bigpond.net.au] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 20:30 < justanotheruser> Please reccomend me an economical CNC mill 20:30 < nmz787> kanzure: it's out of context to not provide the next line in that quote "Dispose of the waste following applicable government regulations." 20:30 < nmz787> kanzure: I got the number for the waste water treatment folks re lab use 20:33 < kanzure> justanotheruser: cncified bridgeport is as cheap as you're going to get for anything uesful 20:33 < kanzure> *useful 20:33 < kanzure> *cnc-converted 20:33 < kanzure> what are the waste people doing that we can't 20:33 < kanzure> buying bags of sand? 20:34 < nmz787> .wik Cordycepin 20:34 < yoleaux> "Cordycepin, or 3'-deoxyadenosine, is a derivative of the nucleoside adenosine, differing from the latter by the absence of oxygen in the 3' position of its ribose part. It was initially extracted from fungi of genus Cordyceps, but is now produced synthetically." — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordycepin 20:35 < justanotheruser> kanzure: it isn't a CNC mill out of the box? 20:35 < kanzure> manual :) 20:36 < kanzure> you could probably find someone selling a converted bridgeport though 20:36 < justanotheruser> Oh, do I need to hack it to get it to take coordinates? 20:36 < kanzure> so, most of the cheap cnc machines you find on kickstarter are not going to cut aluminum 20:37 < kanzure> it's too bad that they are all called "cnc" because it's hard to figure out which ones wont blow up the moment you try to cut metals 20:37 < justanotheruser> kanzure: is that an exaggeration? 20:37 < nmz787> kanzure: usually they use an incinerator with scubbers or additional burning I think... unless you're some company in the middle of nowhere with a lot of desert to dump in. I think they take watershed stuff around here pretty seriously. 20:37 < kanzure> justanotheruser: i don't think so, although i haven't looked at /all/ of them. there have been lots. 20:38 < nmz787> justanotheruser: i heard similar recently 20:38 < justanotheruser> nmz787: from kanzure? 20:38 < kanzure> haha 20:38 < nmz787> "You can see all of the larger pieces of equipment in my shop here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5i9f9GJS9M I'd say that a CNC mill is probably the single most versatile piece of mechanical manufacturing equipment that you can buy. If you can afford and have space for a full-size mill, you will be in really good shape in terms of being able to make almost any reasonable part. Some of the smaller tabletop CNCs are not able to cut metal (even ... 20:38 < nmz787> ... aluminum) very much at all, so they are much more limited. You can certainly cur threads on the CNC, but just having a tap set is often more than sufficient for most projects." 20:38 < nmz787> "-Ben [Krasnow]" 20:39 -!- ebowden [~ebowden@CPE-60-231-178-117.lns4.dav.bigpond.net.au] has joined ##hplusroadmap 20:39 < justanotheruser> nmz787: sorry to change the subject, but how do you get an ellipse at the end of your line carrying onto a new one in irssi? 20:40 < nmz787> uhh 20:40 < catern> nmz787: splitlong.pl 20:40 < nmz787> there were some ellipses in the stuff i pasted 20:40 < justanotheruser> lol :/ 20:40 < catern> er 20:40 < catern> justanotheruser: splitlong.pl 20:40 < justanotheruser> catern: thanks 20:40 < nmz787> catern: I am paid to not use .pl 20:40 < justanotheruser> nmz787: oh? 20:41 < catern> justanotheruser: drop it in .irssi/scripts/autorun 20:41 < justanotheruser> So you manually count the characters and ... at the end? 20:41 < kanzure> the world health organization barred nmz787 from writing perl in 1997 20:41 < nmz787> I have no idea honestly, i think it's just the default debian repo install 20:41 < catern> they're very progressive so they pay him a stipend 20:41 < kanzure> similar arrangements for jrayhawk have been met with little to no success 20:42 -!- Viper168 [~Viper@unaffiliated/viper168] has quit [Ping timeout: 245 seconds] 20:42 < kanzure> justanotheruser: fenn has spent a lot of time thinking about cheap cnc machines that do more than wood cutting 20:42 < nmz787> generally the way I sanitize IRC pastes is by first pasting it into my Chrome URL bar, then re-copying it 20:42 < kanzure> justanotheruser: most people think that you need lots of mass to cut metal, but that's mostly because they don't understand how to do engineering 20:42 -!- Viper168_ [~Viper@unaffiliated/viper168] has joined ##hplusroadmap 20:43 < justanotheruser> catern: umm, what if I don't have a scripts folder in my .irssi/? 20:43 < kanzure> for example, it has been demonstrated that you can use lasers or water to cut metal without 10000 kg of metal 20:43 < justanotheruser> just put it in .irssi/? 20:43 < justanotheruser> kanzure: has he built any prototypes? 20:44 < justanotheruser> kanzure: lasers seem more energy effecient 20:44 < kanzure> well, there's hextatic, but that's not a water cutter or laser cutter 20:44 < justanotheruser> kanzure: would the lasers needed to cut that be cheap at all? 20:45 -!- Viper168_ is now known as Viper168 20:45 < kanzure> off the shelf, no, most good cnc equipment costs at least $50k, and then the fancypants stuff costs 10x or so 20:45 < kanzure> .title https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NsM0-9_n3Q 20:45 < yoleaux> 5 Axis Laser Cutting 20:46 < kanzure> .title https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7NofmHWWPQ 20:46 < yoleaux> Mitsubishi VZ20 Series 3D Laser Cutting Systems 20:46 < justanotheruser> kanzure: do wany 20:46 < justanotheruser> *want 20:46 < nmz787> justanotheruser: http://eugene.craigslist.org/tls/4439725753.html 20:47 < nmz787> 3 axis 20:47 < nmz787> $10k 20:48 < kanzure> i haven't priced a water cutter before but i'm sure it's >$5k for anything good 20:49 < kanzure> i think you can usually pick up a good manual bridgeport for <$1k 20:49 < kanzure> if a cnc conversion can be sold for $10k that sounds like good business to me... 20:49 < kanzure> *used manual bridgeport 20:51 < kanzure> gene_hacker: why hasn't everyone switched over to laser cutter cnc 20:52 < kanzure> i guess threading 20:54 < nmz787> "chickens could not compete with hazardous waste as a cash crop, since farmers typically were paid anywhere from $20 to $50 per drum of waste dumped on their land." 20:54 < nmz787> http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-04/how-toxic-dumping-led-tragedy-small-seaside-town 20:54 < justanotheruser> >popsci 20:56 < kanzure> "Waste organic solvents are separated into chlorinated and non-chlorinated solvent waste. Chlorinated solvent waste is usually incinerated at high temperature to minimize the formation of dioxins.[2][3] Non-chlorinated solvent waste can be burned for energy recovery. Innocuous aqueous waste (such as solutions of sodium chloride) may be poured down the sink; aqueous waste containing toxic compounds are collected separately." 20:58 < nmz787> "As easy as it was to dump legally in the hinterlands of central Jersey, many haulers wanted even sweeter deals. They preferred to do their dumping for free, deep in the pinelands, without anyone's permission or knowledge. No one stood in their way. In those days, the closest thing New Jersey had to an anti-dumping law was a misdemeanor public nuisance statute; it was invoked very rarely and only in the most blatant cases" 20:58 -!- strages__ [sid11297@gateway/web/irccloud.com/x-zhhppjtjyneiasmy] has quit [Ping timeout: 252 seconds] 20:59 < kanzure> as far as i can tell, most universities just hire some outside service and then stop thinking about it 20:59 < kanzure> but there's many forms of waste that you can react chemically with other stuff to make it drain safe 20:59 < nmz787> .wik tom's river 20:59 < yoleaux> "The Toms River, formerly Tom's River, is a 41.7-mile-long (67.1 km) freshwater river and estuary in Ocean County, New Jersey in the United States." — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%27s_River 20:59 < nmz787> .wik tom's river pollution 20:59 < yoleaux> "The Toms River, formerly Tom's River, is a 41.7-mile-long (67.1 km) freshwater river and estuary in Ocean County, New Jersey in the United States." — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toms_River 20:59 < kanzure> i'm not convinced that "liquid organic waste" is as dangerous as radioactive barrels you have to hide forever 21:00 -!- strages__ [sid11297@gateway/web/irccloud.com/x-teikieokvslvenxz] has joined ##hplusroadmap 21:00 < nmz787> .wik Ciba Geigy 21:00 < yoleaux> "Novartis International AG is a Swiss multinational pharmaceutical company based in Basel, Switzerland, ranking number one in sales (57.9 billion US$) among the world-wide industry in 2013." — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciba_Geigy 21:01 < nmz787> that popsci article was excerpting a book, I guess the polluter was discharging dye into the river 21:10 < kanzure> disposal is just "now it's someone else's problem", they might be dumping it down the drain for all you know 21:17 -!- helleshin [~talinck@66-161-138-110.ubr1.dyn.lebanon-oh.fuse.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 21:28 -!- kyknos [~kyknos@89.233.130.143] has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer] 21:29 < nmz787> that popsci article was excerpting a book, I guess the polluter was discharging dye into the river 21:30 -!- kyknos [~kyknos@89.233.130.143] has joined ##hplusroadmap 21:30 < nmz787> that popsci article was excerpting a book, I guess the polluter was discharging dye into the river 21:32 < nmz787> hi, sorry for the last two errant messages 21:33 -!- delinquentme [~dingo@74.61.157.78] has joined ##hplusroadmap 22:05 -!- yashgaroth [~ffffff@cpe-76-167-105-53.san.res.rr.com] has quit [Quit: Leaving] 22:09 -!- jmil [~jmil@hive76/member/jmil] has joined ##hplusroadmap 22:36 < nmz787> so the TCA is/forms 'halogenated waste' http://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/summary/summary.cgi?sid=24851461#x50 22:36 < nmz787> "Disposal Methods SRP: At the time of review, criteria for land treatment or burial (sanitary landfill) disposal practices are subject to significant revision. Prior to implementing land disposal of waste residue (including waste sludge), consult with environmental regulatory agencies for guidance on acceptable disposal practices." 22:37 < nmz787> pure TCA is used as weed killer though 22:38 < nmz787> or maybe they used to 22:42 < kanzure> "Because halogenated organic solvents are often environmental and health hazards and even human carcinogens, the use in open applications has been banned worldwide." 22:45 < nmz787> .wik Psoralen 22:45 < yoleaux> "Psoralen (also called psoralene) is the parent compound in a family of natural products known as furocoumarins." — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psoralen 22:47 < kanzure> all those assholes that care about "green waste" should make me a database or website of obvious methods of remediation of basic organic compounds 22:47 < kanzure> so far i don't see one. what a bunch of wankers. 22:48 < kanzure> people are terrible and evil. after all of these years of me enduring 5 seconds a week listening to their crap, none of them have done even that much?? 22:52 < nmz787> maybe we can ask a safety expert on diybio.org 22:52 < nmz787> paste the whole list of reagents 22:52 < kanzure> haha yes 22:53 < kanzure> i think the trigger word is "remediation", not "disposal" ("make someone else take it away") 22:55 < nmz787> "Sodium monochloroacetate is currently used widely throughout the UK cane fruit industry and most particularly for both summer and autumn fruiting raspberries, to remove unwanted primocanes in both alleys and within the crop rows." 22:55 < nmz787> http://www.pesticides.gov.uk/Resources/CRD/Migrated-Resources/Documents/E/Essential_Uses_Report_for_SMA.pdf 22:56 < nmz787> "Without a suitable alternative to sodium monochloroacetate as an early season defoliant, the hop industry will find it very difficult to compete against imports of hops." 22:56 < kanzure> the reason why it's harmful is because it's reactive, so you should be able to just react it into something more inert or less interesting 22:56 < nmz787> which burning does 22:58 < kanzure> obv. the device needs a combustion chamber 23:00 -!- smeaaagle [~smeaaagle@2002:6ca6:4fb1::6ca6:4fb1] has quit [Ping timeout: 240 seconds] 23:00 < nmz787> this tells us nothing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Methylimidazole 23:01 -!- ruphos [~ruphos@biofag.com] has quit [Ping timeout: 240 seconds] 23:01 -!- ruphos [~ruphos@biofag.com] has joined ##hplusroadmap 23:02 < nmz787> http://www.glenresearch.com/MSDS/reagents/mMethylimidazole.pdf 23:02 < nmz787> "Waste Disposal: This combustible material may be burned in a chemical incinerator equipped with an afterburner and scrubber. Observe all federal, state and local laws for disposal." 23:03 -!- smeaaagle [~smeaaagle@2002:6ca6:4fb1::6ca6:4fb1] has joined ##hplusroadmap 23:04 < nmz787> http://www.deq.state.or.us/lq/pubs/factsheets/hw/HowToDetermineHW.pdf 23:05 < nmz787> http://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/40/part-261/subpart-D 23:05 < nmz787> .title 23:06 < yoleaux> 40 CFR Part 261, Subpart D 23:17 < nmz787> http://diyhpl.us/~nmz787/pdf/MSDS_Sodium_trichloroacetate.pdf 23:19 < nmz787> http://orf.od.nih.gov/EnvironmentalProtection/Documents/Waste20Calendar2004270920508.pdf 23:20 < nmz787> "Multihazardous Waste" 23:20 < gradstudentbot> Yeah, but that was only a sample size of one. 23:20 < nmz787> it has a flow chart 23:20 < nmz787> "Call 301-496-4451 for waste pick-up" 23:21 < gradstudentbot> Cancer: still not cured. 23:23 < nmz787> "Available from Chemical Waste Disposal Service (301) 496-4710" "Liquid waste container 3/5 gallon Collect chemical waste" 23:30 < nmz787> "Hazardous waste should always be disposed of through a designated hazardous waste management or recycling facility. Hazardous waste should not be disposed with ordinary garbage, poured into the sewer system, down storm drains, or onto the ground. Oregon law prohibits these acts." 23:31 < kanzure> that's bullshit, because you can't go to a hazardous waste facility and tell them "hey guys, stop whatever you're doing, you should really be transferring that waste to a hazardous waste facility" 23:31 < kanzure> it's too recursive, their regulations are crap 23:32 < nmz787> no, that just means they probably have different rules 23:32 < kanzure> :( 23:35 < nmz787> http://www.epa.gov/epawaste/hazard/tsd/index.htm 23:35 < nmz787> .title 23:35 < yoleaux> Hazardous Waste Treatment, Storage & Disposal 23:35 < gene_hacker> lasercutter cnc? 23:36 < kanzure> only reason i can think of is threading 23:36 < nmz787> we still don't know if it requires burning or can be sprayed onto some landfill 23:36 < kanzure> otherwise i think everyone should be using it for most cnc things 23:37 < gene_hacker> lasercutter over CNC? 23:37 < gene_hacker> oh I see 23:37 < kanzure> like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7NofmHWWPQ 23:37 < gene_hacker> you need to read this: http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/gcnc/ 23:37 < kanzure> laser cutter cnc should cost much less in parts and maintenance than conventional bulky cnc stuff 23:38 < gene_hacker> milling is a great process BTW 23:38 < kanzure> yep i've read that at least once 23:38 < kanzure> although not part 4 23:38 < gene_hacker> oh that sort of laser cutter 23:38 < gene_hacker> problem is lasers suck 23:39 < kanzure> well, water then.. 23:39 < gene_hacker> lasers are really inefficient 23:39 < gene_hacker> water jet cutters require lots of power 23:39 < kanzure> damn. 23:40 < gene_hacker> and they need jewels for the water jet that wear out 23:40 < gene_hacker> I don't know which uses less power though 23:40 -!- Adifex is now known as night 23:41 < gene_hacker> but if you're using it to make a limited production run of parts, I'm sure it would make sense to use them 23:41 < gene_hacker> techshop has a waterjet cutter don't they? 23:41 < nmz787> http://www.epa.gov/epawaste/hazard/tsd/ldr/resource.htm 23:41 < nmz787> kanzure: there's a bunch of stuff there 23:41 < gene_hacker> incinerate the waste 23:42 < gene_hacker> use a really big mirror and get it really hot, pass through a scrubber 23:43 < gene_hacker> also what are the plans for the synthesizer? 23:43 < nmz787> careful teardown 23:43 < kanzure> thorough teardown with pics, dumping software from the chips 23:44 < nmz787> firmware even 23:44 < gene_hacker> why? 23:44 < gene_hacker> just to reverse engineer it? 23:44 < kanzure> curiosity 23:44 < gene_hacker> sounds good 23:44 < kanzure> their manual has a fluidic schematic of the device 23:44 < kanzure> would be nice to run it for a while 23:44 < nmz787> might be able to see if there's a way to cannibalize it 23:44 < nmz787> retrofit it 23:45 < kanzure> if we do choose to run it, 23:45 < kanzure> there's a limited time during which the reagents are good 23:45 < kanzure> so there should be a list of stuff to synthesize ahead of time 23:45 < kanzure> so that it doesn't sit idle 23:45 < gene_hacker> isn't it all just a bunch of precision stuff that will lose it it's precision magic if taken apart? 23:45 < nmz787> the complete chemical set (which I have no idea how much powder to solvent it uses yet) was like $1200 23:46 < gene_hacker> no surprise there 23:46 < kanzure> i don't think it's $1200 recurring, though 23:46 < kanzure> maybe $1200 one time, probably $300/mo recurring? 23:46 < nmz787> so if the powder is for like 10kb (which I doubt)... then we need about 100X more solvent than I pencilled for 23:47 < nmz787> http://www.epa.gov/opptintr/chemfact/f_acenit.txt 23:47 < nmz787> " Acetonitrile by itself is not likely to cause environmental harm 23:47 < nmz787> at levels normally found in the environment. Acetonitrile can 23:47 < nmz787> contribute to the formation of photochemical smog when it reacts with 23:47 < nmz787> other volatile organic carbon substances in air." 23:47 < nmz787> hmm, let it evap 23:47 < nmz787> 'i came back and it was gone' 23:48 < kanzure> "gnomes stole it" 23:49 < kanzure> gene_hacker: start thinking up a list of primers of interesting things you'd like :P (max is 175 bp, but my guess is that we'll get 20-40 bp) 23:49 < gene_hacker> DNA nanotechnology 23:49 < gene_hacker> do you have a hood for the darn thing? 23:50 < kanzure> well the manual says "just use a 25 foot tube", so i imagine it could go outside for all we care 23:50 < kanzure> it mentions that the waste bottle should probably be under a fume hood 23:51 < gene_hacker> please don't set this thing up like the one in district 9! 23:52 < nmz787> oh ya, that's a good source of inspiration 23:53 < kanzure> taq primers for sure 23:53 < kanzure> various fluorescent proteins 23:53 < kanzure> *protein primers 23:53 < gene_hacker> aren't those >150 bp? 23:53 < nmz787> it would be easier to start with primers for whatever is specified by the kit 23:53 < kanzure> nah the primers can be 20 bp 23:54 < kanzure> for the genes themselves yes >150 23:54 < nmz787> for a PCR mastermix 23:54 < nmz787> they ususally come with some plasmid and primers for a control 23:54 < kanzure> ah good 23:55 -!- sapiosexual [~sapiosexu@d50-92-49-11.bchsia.telus.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 23:56 < gene_hacker> actually the reverse engineering might be very educational 23:56 < nmz787> their valve design is pretty cool, seems pretty similar to a lot of the microfluidic stuff 23:56 < gene_hacker> pictures? 23:57 < kanzure> near end of the manual 23:57 < gene_hacker> perhaps it might be simpler to make a smaller synthesizer based around syringe pumps 23:57 < ParahSailin> acetonitrile biodegrades 23:57 < ParahSailin> so ok to flush down toilet 23:57 < nmz787> "The normal flow into the column is from the bottom. By sending the liquid stream upward, the CPG particles are lifted and maintained in a fluidized state. The flow rates of the solvents and reagents have been set to achieve proper mixing of the particles." 23:58 < nmz787> ParahSailin: the problem is that it'll be mixed with a bunch of other stuff too 23:58 < kanzure> page 118, 120, 219, 220 (last one is more interesting) 23:58 < nmz787> which I haven't google for yet 23:58 < kanzure> of http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/DNA/abi391/ABI%20391-manual.pdf 23:58 < ParahSailin> the other stuff will be handled too 23:59 < nmz787> ". The software is contained within a removable memory cartridge which plugs into the rear of the instrument. Updated software supplied by Applied Biosystems can be easily installed by removing the old cartridge and replacing it with the new one." 23:59 < kanzure> gene_hacker: it probably would be cheaper overall, sure 23:59 < kanzure> gene_hacker: there's about 10-15 chemical inputs here 23:59 < nmz787> 7 23:59 < nmz787> 7 types 23:59 * kanzure looks again 23:59 < nmz787> 5 of the inputs are phosphoramidites --- Log closed Thu Jun 19 00:00:03 2014