2009-08-11.log

--- Day changed Tue Aug 11 2009
ybitlet's see..00:00
ybitadventureland, sunshine cleaning, the midnight meat train, slumdog millionaire, rpm, deathbed, 00:01
ybitand yes, they are mostly talking about what time to meetup to go see these movies at a theater00:02
ybitthat's from the log, only 2% into it00:02
ybitbah, time for bed00:02
* ybit doesn't care for complaining anymore00:02
genehackeroh dear00:04
genehackerthat's not a maker's club00:04
genehackerdang that's not even sci-fi00:05
genehackerthose conversations can not be redirected toward something productive00:06
stragesybit: seriously?00:06
ybitstrages: cereal as cereal can be00:07
stragesyou haven't been to our shop00:07
ybithttp://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cereal00:07
stragesjudging us over irc banter is pretty lame00:07
ybit"no guy, i'm totally cereal right now" -al gore, family guy ep.?00:08
stragesdid it ever occur to you that the people in there conversing aren't the ones out in the real world doing?00:08
ybits/guy/guys00:08
ybitmeh00:09
genehackerrecommended course of action: remove local movie theater00:09
genehackerrecommended course of action is possibly illegal00:09
stragesor remove those in the channel giving us a bad name, sheesh00:09
ybitit's difficult to find locals that are interested in linux interested in anything interesting00:09
genehackerdo they have to be interested in linux?00:10
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stragesybit: I'm interested in robotics, augmented reality, open manufacturing, origami, geocaching00:11
ybitlet's see, found a guy who runs ubuntu and admins a few linux machines whatever distro they run, i mention creating a hackspace and he mentions wanting to have music there... one guy i introduced linux to turned to a mac eventually, another guy who has arch linux, uses awesome wm is majoring in political science..00:11
genehackermake an origami augmented reality setup that is automatically assembled by robots that assists in geocaching00:11
ybitso yeah, i'm sure most of the guys in #makerslocal are idiots too00:11
genehackerpeople in IRC are00:12
stragesybit: sheesh, you're judging us based on completely different people from us?00:12
ybitstrages: follow the diyh+ mailing list, you'll like it00:12
stragesgot a link to it?00:12
ybithttp://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgroups.google.com%2Fgroup%2Fdiytranshumanist&ei=l_2ASqmvHeGTtgf_2fjRCg&usg=AFQjCNEE3GAPlv1hT0Tj-wj_4k0uzgd0pQ&sig2=1PedtkhZugwb7uWwhAW7wQ00:13
ybitgroups.google.com/group/diytranshumanist00:13
stragesybit: have you been to our shop or seen our wiki?00:13
ybitstrages: eh?00:13
ybitoh, you're from #makerslocal :P00:14
stragesyes00:14
ybitwow00:14
ybitnow there are 3 people in here from alabama00:14
stragesand read all the bad things you said about us00:14
ybiti don't care, it's true and ya know it00:14
strageswho's the third?00:14
ybitkatsmeow-afk: 00:14
stragesybit: it is not, how do you know?00:14
ybiti have logs to prove this00:15
stragesirc doesn't prove shit00:15
ybitumm.. these are logs.. to prove that the channel mostly talks about bs00:15
ybitlet's see.. when did you join this channel...00:15
stragescheck the frequency of chatter per user00:16
ybitwhat about it?00:16
stragesyour logs will show that there are a few loud and lazy people in there00:16
ybithmm.. sometime after june00:17
stragesthe rest are out working on things and see each other in person daily at our hackerspace00:17
ybitgrr, /me doesn't want to cat logs00:17
stragesthen don't, trust me instead00:17
ybitwell then, strages nice to meet you on irc00:17
stragesI suggest coming to our hackerspace sometime and checking out our wiki https://256.makerslocal.org/wiki/index.php00:18
strageslots of bright folks there working on projects00:19
ybitjuly 11 is the date i have you as joining..00:19
strageshit up nykodemus, crashcart, or ratmandu in a private conversation sometime00:19
ybithow'd you find out about this channel?00:19
strageskanzure was in #makerslocal I got to talking to him about things and how he found our channel and he led me hear and to the open manufacturing mailing list00:20
strages*here00:20
ybitheh, nice. kanzure, what were you doing there? :P00:21
stragesapparently you mentioned our channel in here before and he followed00:21
ybitafk for a sec00:22
stragesI also started #hackerspaces as a central point for talking to various hackerspaces listed on hackerspaces.org00:22
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ybitand i'm back00:28
ybitstrages: i'm highly relieved to be proven wrong that not the entire channel is full of idiots and that there are some sane people nearby00:30
ybitstrages, katsmeow is also any83313030 00:31
stragesthere are lots, we're just too busy to irc all that much lol00:31
stragesah ok, good to know00:31
ybitbusy doing what exactly...00:32
stragesI'm organizing a hackerspaces meetup next month, sept 18-20.  hackerspaces from all over are coming to visit for the weekend and try and organize a hackerspaces con for the following year00:32
strageshopefully here in huntsville00:32
stragestwo makerbots are being brought by other spaces to the event00:33
stragesand a mcwire cartesian table00:33
ybitlet's see, you'll need to be in touch with the atl group if you haven't already, they'll be interested00:33
stragesI have been in touch with them and the nashville space00:33
stragesthere's a space from quebec driving down00:34
ybitnashville?00:34
stragestwo from florida, one from kansas, one from washington dc, and other from texas00:34
ybitlink to nashville group please00:34
strageshackerconsortium is in nashville00:34
strageshttp://hackerconsortium.com/00:35
stragesI've been working on augmented reality badges for the meetup and trying to finish my multitouch table and automated blimp00:36
strageswho knows what all I'll get done in time00:36
ybithrm00:36
stragesat the space we have arduino folks, a guy who knows just the chipset the arduino uses, and we have a boat load of stepper motors00:37
stragesI want to make a large area 3 axis table that I can change out the head one00:38
ybitso how exactly do you plan on creating ar badges, the attendees will need the equipment to view this stuff00:38
stragesall the attendees will need is the webcam built into their laptop or to use one of the stations we'll have setup00:38
strageswe're using FLARtoolkit on a website to handle the AR stuff00:39
ybitan ar badge is just a blank space with some color encompassing the edges 00:39
ybitso, paper with something like a colored strip of paper on top00:40
* ybit really isn't this crule in person, it's the irc that does it to me00:40
ybitthe black void which is the cli00:41
strageswell it'll have a glyph one it00:41
stragesblack bordered box with a symbol int he center recognized by the software and then replaced with something of our choosing on the computer screen00:42
stragessome call them markers00:42
genehackerar badges?00:43
ybitaugmented reality00:43
genehackergot cardstock and a printer handy?00:43
ybityou know... covention badges..00:43
genehackerthat's all you need00:43
stragesybit: I am curious as to this colored stripe AR stuff you're referring to00:43
genehackeryeah00:43
genehackerI know00:43
genehackerARtoolkit00:43
genehackeruse it00:43
genehackerhope it works well00:43
ybitusually geeks have them hanging around their neck or something at conventions :)00:43
stragesah00:44
stragesI see what you did there00:44
ybit?00:44
stragesgenehacker: yeah we'll be using the flash implementation of artoolkit, which is based off nyartoolkit, a java based one00:45
ybitso what kind of projects at makerslocal00:46
ybitstrages^00:47
strageswe made a portable full sized photobooth that folds up00:47
ybitinteresting00:48
ybitanything else?00:48
ybita list of them on the wiki perhaps?00:48
strageslinux based, and we plan to opensource the design and software00:48
stragesybit they are on our wiki00:48
ybitlinux based, kind of a no brainer :P00:48
ybitstrages: link?00:48
strageshttps://256.makerslocal.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page00:49
stragesalso http://256.makerslocal.org is our blog00:49
ybitso essentially what you just mentioned, ar, multitouch screen, photobooth00:50
ybitand other little hacks00:50
stragesyes mostly00:50
stragesBEAMbots00:50
stragesour usb authenticated door system, which is currently down00:51
strageslaptop running the authentication went south on us00:51
genehackerUSB AUTHENTICATED DOOR SYSTEM?00:51
genehackerdocumentation?00:52
ybitnone00:52
ybitatm i'm assuming00:52
genehackerwe could use one of those here00:52
genehackeroh shoot00:52
ybitdetails though would be nice00:52
stragesgenehacker: https://256.makerslocal.org/wiki/index.php/USB_Auth00:52
stragesybit: seriously stop jumping the gun on being so pessemistic about us00:53
stragesgenehacker: we're working on a standalone version of it without the need for the pc to authenticate00:53
ybitit's the cli strages, it happens to the best of us00:54
genehackerok cool00:54
genehackerlet us know when you are finished00:54
genehackerperhaps we could set up the same system over all other hackerspaces00:55
stragesin a nutshell, every usb key has a unique id stored on a chip in it.  we use that to identify a person, a pc tells a microcontroller to turn a servo attached to the deadbolt on the door00:55
stragesI'm not going to say it's a fool proof means of access, but it works pretty well00:56
genehackerit need not be fool proof00:56
stragessomeone looses their "key" we erase the id from the db  and reauthenticate a new one00:56
genehackerany people capable of hacking in might be of interest to you00:57
genehackerjust let us know how it works out00:57
strageswe have figured out how to completely clone someone's thumbdrive, but it's not easy and requires some specific hardware00:57
strageswe've been using it for about a year now, it works pretty well00:57
genehackertherefore people with that hardware might be useful to you00:57
genehackerok then00:58
stragescorrect00:58
genehackerdocumentation please?00:58
stragesit's on the wiki link I posted00:58
genehackerok00:58
genehackerkanzure00:58
strageseven the code both for the arduino and for the pc00:58
strageswe made hackaday with it last october00:59
genehackeryour link to that diy taq thing is broken00:59
genehackerthen I presume it is fairly well documented00:59
stragesaccept the certificate00:59
genehackercool00:59
ybitstrages: a friend of mine who is now in chicago was working on the same thing ~3 years ago... i should email him to see how far that came along00:59
stragesfirefox hates cacerts for some reason00:59
ybithttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKTXRlaXLDQ01:00
stragesybit: please do, I'd be interested in hearing about his work01:00
ybitis my alsa config fucked or is there really just no audio01:00
stragesyour alsa config is fucked up01:00
* ybit guesses the alsa-config due to mocp mucking around01:00
ybitnope, just mplayer thinking it would be cute to mute pcm01:01
stragesshit it's 1am, I need to go to bed01:01
strageswork and all in the morning01:01
strageswe'll talk more, and I'll happily answer any questions01:02
ybitthat reminds me, ncp needs to be configured properly on this machine :)01:04
ybitany question?01:05
ybitso when's the rfid version of this coming out?01:05
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stragesthere won't be one, but the idea has been brought up in the past and I have a full rfid kit at the space for people to experiment with01:06
stragesincluding an implantable one01:06
ybitnice 01:07
ybitalright, time for bed01:07
bkeroDid you guys see that stross conversation that got /.ed?03:10
genehacker???03:18
katsmeow-afk1 machine, 4 weeks now enough to sequence human genome03:25
katsmeow-afkResearchers have used a new machine that sequences millions of small DNA fragments in parallel to cover 90 percent of one individual's genome in only four weeks.03:25
katsmeow-afkBy John Timmer | Last updated August 10, 2009 2:15 PM CT03:25
katsmeow-afkhttp://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/08/human-genome-completed-using-one-machine-for-four-weeks.ars03:25
katsmeow-afkscientists from the Universities of Nottingham and Southampton demonstrate a technique that allows the electrodeposition of 3nm copper lines : Last updated August 10, 2009 4:05 PM CT : http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/08/researches-create-3-nm-wiring-with-supercritical-fluids.ars03:27
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drazakok06:13
drazakso what is the link between diybio and synthetic biology06:13
drazakit seems counterintuitive06:13
drazaksynbio requires a very high level of knowledge about biology, it requires expensive reagents, complicated protocals, potentially BSL206:14
kanzureexactly06:53
kanzuregenehacker, the diy taq thing is copied in the email06:59
kanzurehere's that robot inventory system using small little turtles: http://www.kivasystems.com/demo/index.html07:01
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strageskanzure: looks kind of like what zappos.com uses in their warehouse09:02
drazakkanzure: like my last two diybio posts?09:03
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drazakkanzure: :D09:50
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kanzurechimpanzees spend on average six hours a day chewing10:05
kanzurefenn: my mom will be bringing by some boxes of legos soon10:07
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draz|labkanzure: so, you totally understood me properly10:08
kanzureapparently she didn't throw them away10:08
draz|labkanzure: I think the diybio community doesn't know shit for shinola about how to actually do biology10:08
draz|labyou don't just one day say: LETS MAKE SYNTHETIC CELLS10:08
* kanzure was looking for an ontology of biology protocols to append to fenn's taxonomy of manufacturing techniques10:11
kanzurebut unfortunately nobody seems to have one10:11
kanzurethere was one from protocol-online.org, but it's hiddeously (un)organized10:11
draz|labI have a western blotting protocal that I can give you10:12
draz|labWITH PICTURES10:12
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ybitdraz|lab: link?10:32
CIA-38brain: kanzure master * r3b0a312 / genes.yaml : sequence identification of 2,375 human brain genes - yay venter - http://bit.ly/164vTm10:35
draz|labybit: I'll email it to ya'll10:42
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* ybit can't figure out why escitalopram | antomoxetine would prevent one from sleeping normally11:12
ybithttp://ybit.ath.cx/docs/papers/Antidepressants%20and%20their%20effect%20on%20sleep.pdf11:14
ybithttp://ybit.ath.cx/docs/papers/The%20effect%20of%20escitalopram%20on%20sleep%20problems%20in%20depressed%20patients.pdf11:14
ybitalso..11:14
ybithttp://adl.serveftp.org/papers/unsorted/The%20effect%20of%20escitalopram%20on%20sleep%20problems%20in%20depressed%20patients.pdf11:15
ybithttp://adl.serveftp.org/papers/unsorted/Antidepressants%20and%20their%20effect%20on%20sleep.pdf11:15
* ybit was thinking last night it would be nice to have a network of rsync mirrors for papers of interest11:16
ybitpapers, books, and possibly other11:17
fennsounds like it's making you even more depressed than usual (based on reading last night's logs)11:19
ybitmore of an asshole than usual would be the description11:24
stragesI'll say :p11:25
ybit:P11:25
kanzureum, what should I be doing right now?11:34
fenndraz|lab: the link is iGEM11:34
fennthe idea here being "biobricks are so easy anyone can do it"11:35
fennand besides, what else are you going to do with a bio lab? make petri dish paintings?11:35
kanzureiGEM isn't about biolabs11:35
kanzureso that's the wrong question, fenn11:36
* ybit thought it was assumed that you have a decent knowledge of bio before participating or developing for diybio11:36
kanzurewe need a competition that glorifies lab setups11:36
ybit^re:diybio isn't synbio11:37
kanzurewhere big bulky proprietary equipment is --11:37
kanzurenow I demand you tell me what I should be doing11:37
fennhttp://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/images/thumbnail1.php/bcb9b685.jpg11:37
fennphotosynthetic bacteria11:38
kanzurethat's what I should be doing?11:38
fennkanzure: why don't you just save some time and energy and hot rod your truck11:38
kanzuremy what?11:38
fennlots of chrome and flames11:38
kanzurehuh?11:38
fennsigh.. nevermind11:39
kanzurewhy do you think it matters what a lab looks like?11:39
fenn'we need a competitino that glorifies big bulky proprietary equipment'11:39
kanzuredid I say that?11:39
ybitthird time's a charm?11:40
fennwell, didn't you?11:40
ybitno11:40
ybit"where big bulky proprietary equipment is --"11:40
kanzurethis is not hard to understand11:40
ybiti'm guessing -- == mising11:40
ybitmissing*11:40
ybitdevoid11:40
fenndefine "--"11:40
kanzurefenn: learn your operators.11:40
kanzureout of context I guess it wouldn't make sense11:41
ybitlike ++ but opposite me guesses11:41
fennsome people use -- as a separator11:41
kanzurethat's true11:41
kanzureokay11:41
ybitand it's a comment in haskell 11:41
kanzurenow tell me what I'm supposed to be doing11:41
kanzurehonestly I'm completely clueless11:41
ybitcreate a todo.org so you won't be clueless like this again11:42
kanzureI looked at my todo lists, but they suck11:42
* fenn looks at the todo list11:42
fennupdate skdb/TODO to reflect what has been done11:42
fennhah11:43
kanzureyou mean skdb/doc/todo/TODO ?11:43
fennyeah11:43
fennalso, install pythonOCC on leibniz11:45
kanzurepythonOCC isn't installed on leibniz? wtf11:46
kanzurehow .. er.. um.11:46
fennit runs in place but you can't import it11:46
kanzurehuh, okay11:46
CIA-38skdb: kanzure * r 3e86655a8d9f /doc/todo/TODO: metatodo is confusing. cleaned up todo.11:55
fennaww. no completed items? how will i ever get a sense of true accomplishment without little ascii art checkboxes?11:58
kanzuredo you want little ascii art checkboxes?11:59
fenni don't know11:59
fennmaybe they should be moved to a 'features' page or something11:59
kanzureorgs mode is probably the closest thing to a shareable todo file format11:59
kanzurehnb has this todo file format, but it's XML, hnb hasn't been maintained in half a decade, and it sucks12:00
kanzuremy old format sucked, and this new yamlification of it also sucks12:00
fenni dont care much about the format as long as it's not XML12:01
fennbasically i was just complaining about the 'accomplishments' just disappearing12:01
* fenn makes a new file 'doc/features'12:02
fennhm12:02
fennor should it go in readme?12:02
kanzurechangelog?12:03
fennchangelogs suck12:03
fennthey always end up being git log > changelog12:03
draz|labfenn: all I was saying in my email is that if synbip is the way the diybio is going to go, then it's not going to be easy12:07
draz|labthat's kinda what I was trying to get out, I think12:07
fennwell, i hope you're wrong12:07
fennomg i'm reading campbell/kurtoglu's "taxonomy" and apparently electrical/mechanical energy is an "object" and wire/gear is a "medium"?12:10
kanzurewhat? "If it weren't for Ben Goertzel, Second Life would be a red herring. The Cosmic Engineers need to take a page from Bryan Bishop's playbook."12:13
kanzurewrldpc2: huh?12:13
wrldpc2You're actually doing shit.12:14
fennwhat are the licensing stipulations for mechmate? (is it even legal to repackage the design files?)12:18
kanzurenot sure12:21
kanzurejohn cumbers got married? apparently his "best man" was mackenzie12:34
CIA-38skdb: fenn * r 8d05e9468235 /doc/todo/TODO: inevitable TODO list bloat.. i tried to add verbs :(12:36
fenndammit i didnt mean to add stuff to that12:37
draz|labkanzure: who the fuck is taking shit from your playbook?12:40
draz|laband what playbook is this12:41
draz|laband where can I find it12:41
fenns/playbook/hnb/12:42
fennseriously though, this channel is basically formed around the idea of a giant todo list12:42
CIA-38skdb: kanzure * r 493a3e563292 /doc/todo/TODO: some more fixes, various links that were requested12:45
wrldpc2lolwtf12:46
kanzurewell that was a completely useless exercise12:46
kanzurefenn: did you fix your mating code yet?12:47
fennno, i need leibniz to do that12:49
kanzureok done12:50
kanzurehm nevermind12:50
fenn"screenshot gallery generator" is what the djangit/views/3d stuff was about12:50
kanzuresort of12:50
fennno?12:50
kanzurethere was also the other app I made that generated screenshots from a file directory12:51
kanzurebut it wouldn't be able to run on djangit unless the server had an X session going12:51
fennoh. damn12:51
fennwe gotta find a way around that12:51
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kanzurehm the build is failing on leibniz12:56
kanzuremight as well start from scratch12:56
CIA-38skdb: fenn * r c456a5256ce1 /readme: kind of a short feature list12:56
kanzuremaybe we should be spending this time trying to come up with a fucking clue for how to do unit tests for interface mating12:58
fennreminds me of that's what i'm doing12:58
fennheh12:58
kanzuredid you complete the whole "let a part have multiple transforms at once" deal so that we don't continue to overwrite Part.shapes[0] ?12:58
fennsorta12:59
kanzurehow does it (not) work?12:59
fenni just stick the gp_Trsf in part.transform12:59
kanzuremeh12:59
kanzureI guess there needs to be a way to ask for the interface point but also the interface point given the transform, etc.12:59
fennthen display BRepblahblah(part.shapes, part.transform).Shape()13:00
fennthe absolute location of the interface will change depending where the part is13:00
kanzurethat's not entirely evident at the moment13:00
kanzureevident from the attribute names and so on, I mean13:00
fennthe attribute names kinda suck anyway13:01
* fenn typed "interface1" enough times yesterday13:02
kanzureso how exactly do unit tests for this sort of thing work anyway?13:05
kanzuredo we check whether or not the cross products are correct?13:05
kanzurehow do we check whether or not the result of the two rotations and one translation is "correct" ?13:07
kanzureand then we can throw in all sorts of edge cases to play around with that check13:07
kanzuremostly I've been doing visual confirmation but that's only because I have run out of ideas13:07
kanzureping pong13:13
kanzureI guess we could check whether or not two interface points end up being in the correct locations after applying a transform, or something13:14
kanzureand then test it for all six sides of a cube, or something13:14
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genehackerposted that on diybio13:33
CIA-38skdb: fenn * r 8e810d7d933e /packages/lego/grammar.yaml: now they are !lego_interface objects again13:35
CIA-38skdb: fenn * r 997a34b8d8a4 /__init__.py: allow skdb to run without OCC13:35
CIA-38skdb: fenn * r 1f4a28a9a48e /packages/lego/ (interfaces.py lego.py test_legos.py): clean up some bit rot13:35
CIA-38skdb: fenn * r 6e7d4833769f / (doc/todo/TODO readme): Merge branch 'master' of ssh://adl.serveftp.org/var/www/skdb13:35
fennyes, but testing six sides of a cube isn't much of an edge case13:36
kanzurethere are many other possible edge cases13:36
kanzureinvolving weird geometries13:36
kanzurebut that comes later13:36
fennyou need to do stuff like rotating 360 degrees and all three rotations13:36
kanzurechecked against what?13:36
fenncommon sense13:36
kanzure..13:36
kanzureimport common sense13:37
fenni know, it's awful13:37
kanzureimport unittest13:37
kanzureunittest.TestCase13:37
kanzurewhat now?13:37
fennbut if we had common_sense.py we wouldnt have to do anything right?13:37
ybithttp://aperiodic.net/screen/multiuser14:22
ybit"screen can allow multiple users to access the same session. This can be useful for all sorts of information sharing, from helpdesk applications to extreme programming."14:22
* ybit has always used gobby for collaborative editing14:22
ybitbut i like this idea of multiuser :)14:22
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stragesI need an app that I can input information, tag it, and then it draws relationships between tagged items.  Anyone got any clue what could do this?15:04
draz|labsql databse15:04
fennwhat do you mean tagged?15:04
draz|labmicrosoft access (puke)15:04
fennugh, sql is terrible for interactive use15:04
draz|labthe open office version of access15:04
kanzuredraz|lab: stfu15:04
fennhey i was going to say that15:05
stragesvisually15:05
* kanzure takes off his mind-reading cap15:05
stragesand I need realtime input15:05
draz|labstrages: lololol15:05
draz|labstrages: pen and paper man15:05
kanzuredraz|lab: what part of stfu do you not understand15:05
fennlike flickr?15:05
draz|laball of it15:05
kanzurestrages: what do you mean "draws relationships"?15:05
kanzuredraz|lab: it means shut the fuck up15:05
stragesyes15:05
stragesI want to be able to file in information, tag it at that time, and then forget about it until I come back to research something and follow the relationships15:06
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fennybit: i think multiple users trying to run the same vim session would get really confusing15:06
kanzurein vim, you do not have multiple cursors15:07
kanzurestrages: ok so do you not need the graphing part of it or not?15:07
strageskanzure: I would like the graphing part, but following links to other notes would suffice15:07
kanzureok15:08
kanzuresounds like a wiki to me15:08
stragesbut wikis don't work that way :/15:08
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kanzurestrages: what do they not do?15:09
stragesthey're hard to edit for simple note taking15:10
kanzurehave you considered just using a flatfile wiki?15:10
kanzureyou can edit the files with your favorite text editor15:10
fennhuh whatever happened to html image maps15:12
fennthat was the shizizzle in 199915:12
kanzureyou mean the cgi clickable things?15:13
fennhttp://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:image_map15:13
stragesnote taking with a tag cloud or note taking with a mindmap type visualization15:15
stragesmindmapping software sucks because it's all outlining rather than drawing relationships for you based on tags15:15
stragesI don't think that linearly15:16
fennif you dont need to circle a specific object in a photograph, i'd say just use a wiki15:18
stragesa network diagram showing relationships between thoughts15:18
fenndokuwiki supports tags with a plugin, but most can do categories out of the box15:18
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fenni think you'll find that computer generated 'diagrams showing relationships' are generally awful15:19
fennin my experience with graphviz at least15:19
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fennhuh. single molecule DNA sequencing is so simple15:33
timschmidt__ybit: you there?15:33
fenn"a gene that has sometimes been associated with increased disagreeability"15:34
fenni cant begin to imagine the legal fallout of that15:35
fennasshole's-rights movement15:35
katsmeow-afkthat's already existing, afaik : ADHD is a disability that's illegal to discriminate against (i am not agreeing, i am simply stating)15:49
kanzurehey I'd like to see information about that15:54
kanzuremaybe I can sue someone15:54
katsmeow-afkschool districts have been sued for not allowing ADHD students to attend, i am sure there's other cases15:55
* strages points to #hackerspaces because of this15:57
strages[15:42:45] <@strages> http://www.opennasa.com/2009/08/11/hackerspaces-and-nasa/15:57
strages[15:44:26] <@tkrabec> Cool15:57
strages[15:46:36] <housetier> hackerspace on the moon...15:57
strages[15:49:49] <@strages> :o15:57
strages[15:52:49] <housetier> well we have hackerspaces on earth, we have communities trying to shoot a probe on the moon (openmoon.info) so why not shoot a reprap on the moon that will build the first hackerspace on moon15:57
strages[15:52:56] <housetier> a tiny one, but still15:57
strages[15:53:58] <@tkrabec> a reprap and some solar cells with a battery15:57
kanzurestrages: see the google lunar x prize team, Team FREDNET15:57
kanzureand interplanetary ventures15:57
kanzurethey've been thinking along those lines as well15:57
* fenn is highly skeptical16:04
kanzureas you should be16:06
genehackerRepraps are theoretically capable of operating in zero g16:07
strageshttp://www.opennasa.com/2009/08/11/hackerspaces-and-nasa/16:08
stragesoops, already posted the link16:08
genehackerbut what good would a reprap on the moon do?16:09
fennabout the same as a reprap on earth16:09
genehackera pave bot would be far more useful16:09
* fenn attempts to not make any cynical comments16:09
kanzurekeep trying, fenn16:10
stragesok, so maybe not a reprap, but something along the same concept16:13
stragessits up there making modules out of raw material16:13
genehackermake what?16:14
stragesnext mission a rover with an arm(s) begins assembly and sealing16:14
* fenn feels obligated to post link to http://www.islandone.org/MMSG/aasm/ for the lurkers16:14
genehackerin that case how about a microwave lunar powder sintering robot16:15
fennjust use a mirror16:15
genehackerthat'll work too16:16
genehackerbut it'd be hard to make big structures16:16
fenngenehacker: microwave wavelength is like 5-50mm16:16
genehackerinstead of building structures on the moon it'd be far better to cap and pressurize a lave tube16:16
fennor just put a balloon in the tube16:17
fennor both16:17
genehackerjust need to find em' first16:17
fennanyway i agree surface structures don't make sense unless they're solar power stations or railroads16:17
genehackerlunar railroads?16:18
genehackercool16:18
fennwell how else are you going to ship stuff around? catapult?16:18
genehackercatapult16:18
genehackeryou don't have any air16:18
genehackerand low gravity16:19
fennsound hard on the bones16:19
timschmidt__minor detail16:19
genehackertoo bad Nasa's funding for a lunar mass driver got cut a while back16:19
fenn20G morning commute is no minor detail16:19
genehackeroh16:19
timschmidt__:)16:19
genehackerfor people16:19
fennor other delicate robots16:20
genehackerhow about a really long one so the acceleration is 1 G and you have time to exercise16:20
timschmidt__we _are_ rather delicate robots, aren't we?16:20
fennwould a railroad be more efficient than a catapult? i have no gut feeling on this one16:20
genehackerwe could do that liquid breathing thing like in evangelion16:20
genehackeroh I know16:20
genehackermaglev railroad16:21
fennthat's the worse of both16:21
genehackerwith high temp superconductors16:21
kanzuresomeone from the Mars Society wanted to put a railroad on the moon16:21
kanzureor on mars16:21
kanzuredon't listen to me16:21
genehackerno air so you can go really fast16:21
genehackerif it wasn't for that damn dust16:21
fennkanzure: around deimos, going faster than escape velocity so you have gravity16:22
fenni think it's pretty silly16:22
timschmidt__genehacker: unfortunately, breathing highly oxygenated  fluorocarbons (like 3M's Fluoronert) collapses the avioli in the lungs, leading to traumatic death after removal of the liquid.16:22
kanzurelung transplants are routine these days16:23
timschmidt__Fluorinert rather16:23
genehackeryeah, which is why you just fill the lungs up with fluid and use a blood oxygenator instead16:23
genehackerlike alexander bolonkin suggests for using in spacesuits16:23
fennjust use a wireless blood electrolyzer! :P16:24
fenner, and nevermind about that co2 stuff16:24
genehackeroh I know, nanites!16:24
fennah good old nanites16:24
genehackerthe ones that caputre CO2 and release oxygen, but don't exist yet and could be near impossible16:24
fenni think the trick is getting electricity to them16:25
fennif they're nanites, you can't use microwave to transmit power16:25
fennalso you'd probably overheat from all the recycling going on in your blood stream16:26
fennso pull a bolonkin and pretend the nanites can store an infinite amount of energy as super-AB-matter16:26
timschmidt__Screw electricity.  Real nanites run on Brownian motion.16:27
fenntimschmidt__: i suggest reading about thermodynamic equilibrium and why enzymes go forwards and backwards unless there's energy input16:27
timschmidt__:)16:27
* fenn wonders if he can manage to eat some ice cream instead of writing geometry unit tests16:29
fennin retrospect, not going to work hasn't helped this situation16:29
kanzurewrong thing to wonder16:29
fennoh well16:29
kanzureI'd write them if I knew what to write16:30
fennme too16:31
fennthe general idea is something like: a cube with one interface at 1,1,1 pointing at 2,2,216:31
kanzurehave you been able to get two arrows to point at the same spot?16:31
fennnow rotate the cube 180 around -1,1,116:31
fennthe interface should be pointing at -2,-2,-216:32
kanzureaccording to what16:32
fennthe legos told me so16:32
fennhum. anyway it's more than that isn't it16:33
fennassume you have two cubes16:33
fennthe second cube's interface should be located at 1,1,1, but pointing at 0,0,016:33
fennand the body of the cube at 2,2,216:33
fennalso it'd be a good idea to show the interface arrows16:35
fenn-1,1,1 is the cross product of 1,1,1 (i think)16:35
kanzurea good start would be to get the interface arrows to show even on rotated cubes16:35
kanzureor rotated legos, I mean16:35
genehackernanothermodynamics is weird16:35
kanzureat the moment in pymates the arrows for some reason do not show on any transformed part16:35
kanzure(probably because I didn't write code that does that)16:35
fennboo hiss16:36
kanzurethey just show on the first one loaded into the system16:36
kanzurethe reason this happens is that the arrows are drawn based off of part.interfaces16:36
kanzureso if the interfaces aren't transformed, then there you go16:36
kanzurebut it shouldn't be looking at interface.point values anyway.. so it's wrong.16:36
fennthe interfaces shouldnt be transformed unless you transform them16:36
* fenn looks around for his tail16:37
fenni know it's around here somewhere, but every time i turn around it's gone!16:37
kanzuresummersault! summersault!16:37
* fenn does a backflip and breaks his neck16:37
kanzurejust so everyone knows, he really did just do a backflip16:38
kanzureand I'm sitting here informing you of this16:38
kanzureinstead of helping him16:38
fenni swear. i didn't even spill any ice cream16:38
kanzurebut you broke your neck?16:38
fenni'm talented16:38
kanzureyou're retarded is more like it16:38
fenndoes that mean i get disability income16:39
kanzureno, you're white16:39
genehackerhey if your spinal cord is broken you might be able to get a neural implant16:39
fennwhat if i biohack my skin so it's green16:39
genehackerotherwise chug blue food coloring 16:39
fennwith enough chlorophyll i wouldnt need to move anyway16:40
kanzureyou forgot surface area16:40
kanzureit's an important ingredient16:40
fennmight get kinda boring without a neural implant tho16:40
fennsurface area is for wimps with no mirror arrays!16:40
genehackerthen you're cooking16:41
fennnot underwater i'm not16:41
kanzureno it's because of the chlorophyll density maximums16:41
genehackeryup16:41
kanzurewhy are you underwater anyway?16:41
kanzureweren't you writing some unit tests?16:41
fennbecause i'm emulating that guy in some book i read16:41
fennmichael valentine16:41
genehackerwhat book?16:42
fennthe Man from Mars16:42
genehackerok16:42
genehackerwell have fun unittesting16:42
genehackertime to design a cover for my printable stepper16:42
* fenn suggests a flat plate16:43
genehackerit can't be16:43
genehackerthis part mus interface with WOBBLE GENERATOR and allow AIR to pass through to WOBBLE GENERATOR. part must interface with THRUST BEARING and ROD16:44
fennNO WAY!16:45
fenns/WAY/WAI/16:45
fennmustn't forget our manners16:45
kanzurethere are many possible paths, but only one wai16:46
fennthe kawaii wai?16:46
genehackeris wai most optimal16:47
fennhttp://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t83/llammy/kawaii.jpg16:47
genehackerwell at least the conversation hasn't devolved to anime16:49
fenntoo late, mister evangelion16:49
genehackeris there a standard m8 washer size?16:51
fenndo i really have to use numpy to do 3d cross product?16:51
fenn(not including pythonOCC)16:51
kanzuredon't write your own16:51
fennit just seems like something that ought to be in "math"16:52
genehackerit's not fun writing one's own cross product function16:52
fennmath.cross((1,2,3), (4,5,6))16:52
fenni mean they have hypot() fer cheese sauce16:52
fennyou know the interface vectors should probably have some value of units associated16:54
fennat least interface.point16:54
kanzurethat's fine16:55
kanzurepart of the problem with CAD kernels that I have *never* figured out is that all of their numbers are unitless16:55
kanzureso I have absolutely no idea how big an object is supposedly being modeled as16:55
kanzureand it's only at the last minute do you get to do dimensioning or something16:56
fennnot sure about that16:56
kanzurewell consider OCC.gp.gp_Pnt16:56
fennthe lego step models are in mm16:56
kanzureyou have absolutely no idea how distance two points are from one another16:56
kanzurehow do you know?16:56
genehackerpython math pack = numpy?16:56
fenni think i saw it in the file somewhere16:56
kanzuregenehacker: no, numpy is an extra mathematics package16:56
kanzuregenehacker: python comes with its own math module 16:56
genehackerthat's what I meant16:56
fennnumpy is for matrix math (and statistics?)16:58
fennFast mathematical operations over arrays, Linear Algebra, Fourier Transforms, Random Number Generation16:59
genehackerunderstood16:59
fenni think you can apply a python function to an array and it'll do some magic to make it super fast16:59
fennhmmm17:01
fenn__init__(self, float_conv=<type 'float'>, int_conv=<type 'int'>17:01
fenni wonder if that's generalizable17:01
fennnope17:02
ybittimschmidt__: i am now17:09
* ybit was away treading through the storm for food17:10
ybitfenn, i've yet to run the code on this computer, but i read somewhere that emacs has a multiuser session mode. i imagine you all have your own buffer?17:11
ybitthough, org-mode and git should suit collaborative efforts in text just fine most of the time17:11
ybittimschmidt__: you run?17:11
ybitrung*17:11
kanzureit's what aresnick uses17:11
ybitlink to his repo?17:12
kanzurehttp://github.com/aresnick17:13
fennybit: not everybody uses emacs17:14
fennybit: i tried it once and suffered greatly17:15
fenni spent about 2 weeks using it and never got comfortable17:15
ybitmentally or physically through emacs pinky?17:15
fennmentally17:15
fennit could have been the lisp i was imbibing at the same time17:16
kanzurenah, no way17:16
* kanzure twitches17:16
fennit's powerfull stuff :{17:16
kanzureis that a smileyface stuffing ice cream into his face?17:17
fennybit: what i really want is a way to lean over someone's shoulder and type on their screen without getting in the way17:17
fennthat's a guy with a mustache, he's not smiling.17:17
fennbah apparently 'contig' can mean any of possible definitions17:23
ybitwhat are some ultimate goals of h+?17:25
kanzurethe organization?17:25
fennOBJECTION that might be classified as philosophy17:25
kanzureOBJECTION OVER-RULED17:25
kanzureI will not have your flibbery-babbery in my court room, Mr. Fenn.17:25
fennh+ seeks to dominate and enslave legalist jurisprudence in any and all domains17:26
ybitwell, i'm thinking, (er.. well trying to think with this throbbing headache) about how to best organize hackerspaces..17:26
genehackerhttp://www.aeropause.com/wordpress/archives/images/2008/07/pw-objection.gif17:26
kanzurethe trick is to let them organize themselves17:26
ybitflibbery-babbery :P17:26
kanzurebut provide some really really kickass models for them to build off of17:26
ybitlet's see...17:26
genehackerH+ seeks to transform humanity and culture by upgrading humanity17:27
fennoh geez did you read that on the website or what?17:27
fennthe REAL purpose of H+ is...17:28
ybitso how to upgrade humanity, that's what i'm after...17:28
kanzurewhat the fuck17:28
kanzureybit: no, let's not upgrade humanity17:28
kanzureif some random joe wants to "upgrade" himself, let him17:28
genehackerwell I sorta grabed words out of my head17:28
kanzurethey are bad words17:28
fenngenehacker: bad meme, bad!17:28
kanzurethe actual purpose of transhumanism is to provide support to transhumans or transhuman-wannabes17:29
fennyou know, if you turn H+ on its side it looks like a mishmash of "old" and "engineering" in japanese17:29
fennoops, "ground" not "old"17:33
fennhttp://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/工 http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/土17:34
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genehackeryour link isn't working17:37
fennyour irc client isn't working17:37
genehackerwtf?17:39
genehackerI can't copy that17:39
genehackerhttp://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/土17:41
genehackernow that's weird17:41
QuantumGworks for me17:42
ybithttp://airto.hosted.ats.ucla.edu/wiki/index.php/Main_Page17:42
ybit"This is the new home for the BrainMapping.org Wiki"17:43
kanzurefenn is there any trick to getting virtualhosts working on apache?17:43
kanzureit thinks my document root is /17:43
fennlook at adl17:43
fenni think i did a fairly clean setup17:43
genehackerit says dirt not engineering17:44
fennthere are two links17:44
kanzurelinks?17:44
fenn(@ genehacker)17:44
kanzureblah17:44
kanzurewell I've been running off of your fennetic.net example17:44
kanzureok it works17:45
kanzureyay17:45
fenndid you have to turn on NameVirtualHost in the main config?17:45
kanzureno, I forgot to throw it into sites-enabled, and even once I did that, I forgot to restart apache (because I had just restarted it a second ago)17:46
kanzureanywho17:46
kanzureI've been working on something called "protocola"17:46
kanzurehttp://protocola.org/17:46
kanzureit's a django app for collaborative unfucking of protocols17:46
fenn'secret ingredients: bog water and chocolate syrup'17:46
kanzurehaven't ported the django app yet17:47
fennbut you don't know the ratio!17:47
kanzurebasically the idea is to show the user a protocol,17:47
kanzureand then text fields below each numbered step17:47
kanzureupon entering in information, the site will yell at you if you get the syntax wrong or something17:47
kanzurethe idea is that over time the protocols will be completely converted and verified17:48
fenni'm so going to pronounce that wrong every chance i get17:48
kanzurehm?17:48
kanzurehow do you pronounce it?17:48
fenn"proto cola"17:48
kanzurethat's not the same as protocola?17:48
fennlike cocoa cola17:48
kanzurejust say it as if you're drunk17:49
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ybitgit clone git://gitorious.org/todo-org/todo-org.git   18:00
ybitso that's the todo.org that needs a lot of fixing18:00
ybitultimate goals blank18:01
kanzuremeta todo rot18:01
ybitmeh18:01
kanzurebah, shave chest18:02
kanzure:(18:02
ybitlol!18:02
ybitno way haha18:02
genehackerNaOH should do the job quite well18:02
ybit:P18:02
ybiter, that was the personal todo.org -_-18:04
fennneato: "pyjamas contains a stand-alone Python-to-Javascript compiler, an AJAX Framework and Widget set, and through use of these components, developers can write comprehensive applications, to run in all major web browsers, without writing a single line of javascript."18:07
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fennThe widget set library [5] that comes with Pyjamas is so similar to PyQt and PyGTK that a port of Pyjamas was made to run Pyjamas applications on the desktop, called Pyjamas-Desktop18:12
kanzurenice18:13
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ybitgit clone git://gitorious.org/diyhplus/diyhplus_org.git18:23
kanzureMEAs aren't the end of the story, ybit18:24
kanzurealso I'm having trouble figuring out what the organization is to that file18:24
ybitit needs some fixing definitely18:25
ybitand no it isn't the ultimate goal, that's still from the personal todo.org18:26
ybiti just wanted to put something out there, and edit as i get time18:26
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ybitrelated book, related papers, related links should go with the individual listing of hardware and software projects 18:27
ybitisn't a transhuman some form of an upgraded human?18:32
ybit""17:25 < kanzure> the actual purpose of transhumanism is to provide support to transhumans or transhuman-wannabes"" do you mean "the actual purpose of humanity plus and transhuman wannabes is to..."18:33
kanzureno18:38
kanzurea transhuman is an "upgraded" or "augmented" human, yes18:38
timschmidt__ybit: hi19:14
ybithi there19:15
timschmidt__howdy19:16
timschmidt__an update for you: http://builders.reprap.org/2009/08/wrench-built-machine-update.html19:16
* ybit tips his hat to timschmidt__19:17
timschmidt__We've made a lot of changes to the Z stage since then, I'll get photos asap (which might not be for another week or so)19:17
timschmidt__but basically, we made the Z stage look and work a lot more like the X and Y stages.19:18
timschmidt__keep in mind that every angle on the machine is three-way braced, and bolted tight, so it's all square relative to itself.19:20
any04225226hmm, http://www2.sandbox.google.com/ has about the same results as http://www.google.com/ , but it's 3x faster19:24
ybittimschmidt__: thanks for the updates, keep them coming please19:24
timschmidt__Will do.  When 'done' we plan on taking pictures, dis-assembling, and documenting the build step-by-step.19:25
ybitnice :)19:25
timschmidt__then it's up to you to build one19:25
ybit:)19:26
timschmidt__We've still only used a wrench and a hacksaw.  There was some debate about the use of JB Weld, but I classify that as 'material', not 'tool'.19:27
timschmidt__Use of a file to clean the edges of the cut beams is optional, but recommended for safety.19:28
kanzureany04225226: how'd you find that?19:44
ybitwow, that is fast19:44
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fennybit: is that all proper org mode syntax?19:53
fenni dont understand why there's TODO in some places and not in other, or why ***'s in some but foo: bar in other19:54
fennand why not put your root goals at the root of the tree?19:54
fennsome day i'll write a program that takes nodes with dependencies and builds a tree from them19:56
* fenn tosses that dream on the burn pile19:56
fennand you spelled toothebrush wrong19:59
kanzurealabamians have no teeth anyway20:00
fennfwiw todo lists should have verbs in every entry20:00
kanzureyes20:00
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fennhmm. should lego interface units be in N or N/m^2?20:03
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fenni guess N20:04
kanzurewe wrote that down somewhere20:05
fennthe problem is i'm trying to pretend "face" is a lego feture20:05
fennbut it's really not20:05
genehackerpascals20:05
genehackerI guess newtons20:06
kanzurehuh I get 26,300 search results for 'kanzure' these days?20:11
kanzurehow did that happen20:11
fenngosh if only i had a measuring lab, i'd be able to figure out how much shear a lego stud can take20:13
* fenn reflects on the fact that his internal representation of mass is in blocks of cheese20:17
kanzureand the units of gravity is in terms of gravy spoonfuls?20:19
fenngravitons20:20
kanzurecrutons?20:21
fenni suppose gravy is a mixture of anti-croutons and something else.. dark matter perhaps?20:23
kanzuredark cheese20:23
* fenn punishes himself for making such terrible jokes20:23
kanzuremaybe more physicists should just wake up and smell the gravytons20:23
kanzurethinking about it in terms of food makes it much more easy to solve20:24
fenni guess that would be the "edible stance"20:25
kanzureThe Sauce of the Cosmos20:25
fenncheese sauce crust20:25
ybiti'm running into problem organizing these projects, and that is how to show how individual topics relate to other topics of interest20:31
fennyep20:31
fennit's actually a directed graph, not a tree20:32
fennyou can sort-of get away with pointers in yaml20:32
fennsee trans-tech.yaml in skdb20:32
kanzureor human_brain.yaml in brain20:33
fennit's all backwards/inside out (trans-tech)20:33
fennshould just redo that file20:34
fennmust.. procrastinate..20:34
fenni wish there were a better word for "unit"20:48
fenn"unit test" is taken, "unit vector" is taken, and i dont even know what to call the combined expression of number and unit (or is it the other way around?)20:49
kanzureunit magnitude?20:50
fennwhat's the not-magnitude part20:50
kanzuremaybe "parametric unit expression"20:50
kanzurethe non magnitude part is the unit20:50
fennwhat's the number and unit together?20:50
kanzureunit magnitude20:50
fennno20:50
kanzureno?20:50
fennthe magnitude is the number20:50
kanzureokay?20:51
fennthink of it like a vector20:51
kanzuresure20:51
fenneach base unit is a dimension20:51
fennok crappy analogy20:51
fennor is it...20:52
fenn0.5V * 2A yields 1V*A20:52
fennbut it's not the same thing as 2V * 0.5A20:52
kanzurewhy not?20:52
fennthe voltage is different20:53
kanzureso are the amps20:53
fennright20:53
fennhere's a little secret20:53
kanzureso what? you just say what you have20:53
fennevery time you convert units, you're losing information20:53
kanzurethat's only because your conversion method sucks in units.py20:53
fennno, this is theoretical20:54
kanzureyou could keep the original unit expression20:54
fenneventually all units equal 120:54
kanzureand pass it along and a chain or list accumulates20:54
fenni do, but there's no way to make use of it atm20:54
fennanyway you still can access the original variable that said how many volts your jigger was charged up at20:55
kanzureskdb-get install jigger20:56
kanzureerror: no package 'jigger' found20:56
kanzure:p20:56
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fennkanzure: do you have a working heekscad somewhere?21:09
fennanyway i just want a 2x2x2 cube centered at 0,0,021:10
kanzureit's in /home/bryan/manufacturing/heekscad/ or something21:14
fenndoesn't want to compile.. nevermind i'll get along21:15
fennwithout it*21:15
ybitsci-pirate tech:21:16
ybit?21:16
ybitmyostatin inhibitors: &myostatin-inhibitors21:16
kanzureybit: &myostatin-inhibitors lets "*myostatin-inhibitors" work as a pointer elsewhere in the file21:17
fennybit: for stealing papers21:17
ybitthat's what i was about to say until my aunt came in here and told me to get some rest21:17
ybitit's a tag21:18
ybit /fenn snarls21:18
ybit /kanzure kicks21:18
fenn /ybit barks like an insane loon21:19
* kanzure kicks21:19
ybit:P21:19
* fenn snarls21:20
ybit.org probably isn't the best file for sharing with a mass audience21:20
ybitfile +format21:20
ybitbut man it's so convenient 21:21
kanzurewas there a gundam where the pilots were standing up?21:21
fennno21:21
kanzurethen what am I thinking of?21:22
fennobviously an airplane throttle is sufficient to control a multi-limbed flying robot21:22
* ybit isn't finding specs on yaml pointers21:22
fennshirow's exoskeletons were <insert fancy word here that means when you move your arm/leg the robot moves its arm/leg>21:22
ybithttp://yaml.org/spec/10dec2001.html#trans-ptr is missing21:23
fennyou said you never saw appleseed so that can't be it21:23
kanzureone day I will figure out which gundam I grew up with21:24
kanzurethere's apparently no way to search for old tv guides21:24
fennpower rangers?21:24
ybitthey sat down21:24
kanzurehahah21:24
fenni wonder if their mecha had toilets built in21:25
fennffs if they're going to do CG anime at least draw the eyes by hand21:25
kanzuremaybe it was gundam seed21:26
genehackermeteor shower tonight21:26
kanzurepossibly g gundam21:26
genehackerheh21:26
kanzureah yeah that was it21:27
genehackerI think there was21:27
genehackeroops21:27
kanzurethat was the one that toonami played before they went lame 21:27
kanzureand started playing SD gundam21:27
kanzurewhat the *fuck* _was_ that?21:27
genehackerI don't know21:27
kanzureseriously though21:27
kanzurehttp://www.freewebs.com/chaostheroyalknight/5d_021_sd_gundam.jpg21:27
genehackerhttp://www.space.com/spacewatch/090811-perseid-meteor-shower.html21:28
fenncompare and contrast: http://mayafreaksblog.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/appleseed-1.jpg http://www.razorfine.com/images/uploads/Appleseed_Caps.jpg21:28
fennlooks like a god damn doll21:29
kanzurethat was the entire show21:29
kanzureluckily that was not my intro to gundam21:29
fenn(was talking about deunan but whatever, SD sucks too)21:29
genehackerfenn is it on wheels?21:29
kanzurehere we go .. this is engrained in my memory: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlhtVgB7QuY21:30
genehackeradded airfoils would allowed a wheeled-bipedal mecha to go faster21:30
genehackerlasers around the earth?21:31
ybitguess ya want be able to make artificial heart/blood/power supply for body and parts if ya haven't mastered the sci of taking digitizing that brain of yours21:31
ybitwon't*21:32
ybit-taking21:32
genehackeruh21:32
genehackernot really21:32
genehackerdon't artificial hearts already exist?21:33
* ybit wonders what type of power supply a digital brain might use21:33
ybitgenehacker: yeah.. i wasn't really referring to that though21:34
genehackeruninterruptable nuclear fusion power supply21:34
ybitbrain parts... 21:35
genehackeror mains power and 20 back up generators21:35
timschmidt__or just backed-up non-volatile storage21:36
timschmidt__version control for brains would be interesting, possibly scary21:36
* ybit clones git://github.com/kanzure/brain.git21:36
timschmidt__ha!21:37
ybitit is a real repo just in case you didn't know :)21:38
timschmidt__leave it to us sysadmins to figure out how to safely store everyone else's brains...  sheesh21:38
timschmidt__interesting thought...  when brains are digital, psychologist / doctor == programmer?21:39
fennas usual the conversation has progressed beyond gundam cockpits by the time i find the link21:40
timschmidt__:)21:40
genehackersentience is a process timschmidt21:41
genehackerthat's why a chat bot isn't sentient21:41
fennkanzure: http://fennetic.net/irc/guges/21:41
timschmidt__genehacker: and?21:41
fennhmm i have higher res labeled version of those somewhere21:42
genehackerchatbots don't continously carry out a thinking process other than what words to choose next21:44
timschmidt__genehacker: I never said they did21:44
kanzurehah.21:46
kanzurehttp://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/NickGreat/CustomFigs/frieza.jpg21:46
genehackerpausing simulation of a brain interrupt sentience21:46
genehackeroh wait21:46
kanzuretimschmidt__: aren't you the sysadmin of your brain?21:47
fennnot at all21:47
timschmidt__genehacker: yep, it would.  And the experience might be quite jarring.21:47
kanzurefenn: ?21:47
fennbrain runs autonomously21:47
kanzureso?21:47
kanzureso does your box21:47
fennif the box breaks, i fix it21:48
fennif my brain breaks, what?21:48
kanzureif your brain breaks, you should fix it21:48
fennhow do i do that :(21:48
kanzurewell it's not magic21:48
timschmidt__especially with a broken brain21:48
fennsrsly21:48
kanzuretimschmidt__: well that's where tools come in handy21:48
timschmidt__a working brain comes in handy for, you know, fixing things.21:48
genehackerhow about a second brain for fixing the other one if something goes wrong21:49
kanzurea sysadmin doesn't wait for the last minute to realize everything is fucked up21:49
kanzure(maybe that's because he already knows the system is fucked)21:49
timschmidt__nah, just reboot and choose 'last known good configuration'.  And if that doesn't work, Safe Mode.  What could go wrong?21:50
kanzureI wonder if you're being serious21:50
timschmidt__not at all21:50
kanzureokay21:50
fennmy brain doesn't run on Windows, thank you very much21:50
kanzureis it POSIX compatable with the T101?21:50
fennactually the T101 runs plan 921:50
genehackerguys I once dreamed a windows 98 screensaver, what does that mean?21:52
fennyou had a virus21:52
kanzurethat's not in freud's books :(21:52
kanzureit's listed as "SEE OTHER"21:52
fennwas it the pipes?21:53
kanzureoh no, not the pipes21:53
kanzurethat's the worst sign of them all21:53
genehackerno21:53
fennhow could it not be the pipes?!21:53
genehackerit was that mouse one21:53
fennlink21:53
genehackeryou don't remember mouse maze?21:53
kanzurehow is it that 10 lines of code has been able to supercede the entire ADL by about three decades21:53
genehackerwhat?21:54
fenngenehacker: this?  http://www.plentyofsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/58724.gif 21:54
genehackersomething like that21:55
genehackerexcept with less quality and the maze inverted periodically21:55
genehackerit was made to look like an AWESOME GRAPHICS videogame at the time21:56
genehackerthere were also weirder brick walls21:56
ybithrm. 88.80.7.248 - - [11/Aug/2009:19:58:50 -0500] "GET http://spam-chaos.com/pp/set-cookie.php HTTP/1.1" 404 346 "-" "-" "-"22:08
ybitanyone had such a service come at your server?22:08
* ybit remembers the maze22:12
ybit..screensaver22:12
ybit"give'm the pipes" seems like it should be a saying for a futurama parod of the clamps bot22:12
ybitparody22:13
* ybit is grepping logs... for the sleep.yaml...22:13
* ybit is curious how much away-time from the computer you two roomies recieve22:13
ybiter, that would be kanzure and fenn 22:15
ybitsince you are constantly committing22:15
fennaway time? what is that?22:17
genehackerI certainly could use a bender right now ybit22:18
genehackeror maybe a tubing coiler22:18
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