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Canageek

@Canageek@wandering.shop

Canadian Geek. Ph.D. in Chemistry. Plays tabletop RPGs, video games and board games. Aspie & ADHD.

Not a geek in a can.

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I do love how many lore errors can be fixed by saying "....and that person is bad at geography/history" WHICH IS TOTALLY VALID.

When I was in high school in 2002 I knew someone who had only just learned Afghanistan is in the middle east, and not South America.

Otherwise smart people will make stupid mistakes like saying south when they mean north, or will do some quick mental math with dates and make a mistake.

(Yes, I've been reading someone doing a deep dive into MtG lore)

Canageek, to random
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I am landed in Seattle and waiting for my baggage! First time visiting since 2020!

Canageek,
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@xgranade Just until Thursday which is why I didn't advertise it much; But I'll be back for a bit longer in July!

Canageek,
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@xgranade Hello hello! We should start doing the Seattle Mastodon meetups again: @WizardOfDocs has been trying to set something up

nyrath, to random
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Derek Lowe's "Things I Will Not Work With", a series about insanely dangerous chemical compounds.

In this episode, The Higher States of Bromine.

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/higher-states-bromine

Canageek,
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@nyrath oh, when I was an undergrad I had a class talk by a professor who's PhD thesis had a chapter on Br(VII)

Canageek,
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@nyrath I've written a full presentation on Br(VII) and the differences between it and Cl(VII) and I(VII)

aeva, (edited ) to random
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graphics research lifehack: you can cut out a ton of paywall scams and inscrutable academic wankery by excluding "we present" from your searches

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@aeva Chemistry has been fighting with that problem for decades, if not longer. It is hard to get negative results published, and even if you do, you aren't going to get cited, as what will people say?

"We didn't use the reaction described in citation 18, as we read the paper and found out it didn't work."

Canageek,
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@aeva Oh true; Derek Lowe did some really good blog posts on the topic about ten years ago, wish I could find them now

gsuberland, (edited ) to random
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[serious, no joke replies or guesses / autotranslation please]

do I know anyone native or otherwise very fluent in Chinese who can tell me the correct term for a plated edge connector, like you might find on a PCIe card? specifically the "gold fingers" style connector feature you would find on the PCB side, not the plastic connector it slots into.

I've had an absolute nightmare trying to communicate this feature to a Shenzhen-based PCB vendor and I would like it to be easier in future.

Canageek,
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@gsuberland is this a common feature? I know some native Chinese speakers I could send this to for you, but their chemists and as far as I know have never done PCB design so they might not know. but I can ask if you'd like.

mekkaokereke, to random
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On rap beef:
J Cole wrote an anti-diss track but y'all didn't like that one, huh? He opted out of this little "provoke each other until real violence happens" game that y'all are enjoying so much. He made a smart decision.

For those that don't listen to rap:
Drizzy is a nickname for Drake.
Jigga is Jay Z.
Kodak is Kodak Black.

J Cole refused to engage in the "Old rappers suck! / new generation of rappers suck!" debates. He refused to get drawn into rap battles. Instead he compliments everyone.

Screenshot of lyrics: I'm dead in the middle of two generations I'm little bro and big bro all at once Just left the lab with young 21 Savage I'm 'bout to go and meet Jigga for lunch Had a long talk with the young brother Kodak Reminded me of young brother from 'Ville Straight out the projects, no fakin', just honest I wish that he had more guidance, for real Too many brothers in cycle of jail Spending they birthdays inside of a cell We coming from a long bloodline of trauma We raised by our mamas, Lord we gotta heal We hurting our sisters, the babies as well We killing our brothers, they poisoned the well Distorted self image, we set up to fail I'ma make sure that the real gon' prevail, brother

Canageek,
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@mekkaokereke Question: Is it rare for rappers to come out against attacking one another like this?

eniko, to random
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as someone who has lived in both the US and EU i think the standard date formats are confusing as fuck and everyone should switch to ISO 8601 yyyy-mm-dd

Canageek,
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@eniko this this this this

there's a reason I write a note at the top of every log book telling people to use this date format because as a Canadian University we get a buttload of people up from the US and I never know which one any given person is going to use and it can matter if I'm trying to figure out when a problem on an instrument started

Canageek,
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@xgranade @eniko the advantage of using ISO is if you're using them as file or folder names sorting by date is really slow, but sorting by file name is super fast and it will sort automatically if you use ISO

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Arrrggg. Trying to order from Memory Express. To place my order they need the address I'm shipping to be on my credit card.

But I don't trust my apartment's delivery system, I've had multiple packages never arrive. So I want to ship it to someone I know with a house.

Their website claims you can add an address by phoning your credit card company, but when I do that they say you need to visit the store in person.

Fucking hell.

Canageek,
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Graphics card I picked is sold out. That one is easy, just swap in another with the same chip.

But the motherboard is sold out, and so I'm left sifting through a pile of almost identical ones, trying to find one with the right front headers without paying through the nose.

I think I've found one, and then find it needs CL34 RAM instead of CL30, and I have no idea what that means.

Canageek,
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@rivetgeek Yeah, so I have to figure if it is worth using a motherboard that doesn't support CL30 RAM or if I pay more.

Or possibly I buy the motherboard from another company then the rest.

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@rivetgeek Things seem to have gotten a LOT worse in the last 10 years, I didn't have to check things NEARLY this carefully last time I built one. The increased power demand seems to have messed things up

gsuberland, (edited ) to random
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discovering that fewer cybertrucks have been sold than Sinclair C5s has amused me greatly. and honestly, if you want to drive a weird vehicle, the C5 is far more fun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_C5

Canageek,
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@gsuberland That is only slightly more then the Delorean sold

Canageek,
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@gsuberland I was just thinking about that! Did Deloreans kill anyone?

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Considering how hard it is to catch birds— I think one “in the hand” would be worth a lot more than two in the bush. Pica agrees with much enthusiasm (and isn’t allowed outside alone because of it)—

Canageek,
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@futurebird I want to see a survey of ornithologist now to work out how MANY birds in the bush one in the hand is worth, sorted by sub-field (since I could see the answer being very different for the person that studies eagles vs songbirds)

Nifflas, to random
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Looking for a lot of words that expresses that something is cool. Like, "Awesome", "Groovy", "Cowabunga". It doesn't matter how made-up or weird, or obscure. I'm gonna need like a hundred of them!

Feel free to suggest any, together with a number indicating the coolness (1 = ok, 3 = Great!, 5 = THAT'S AWESOME, 10 = INFINITY COOL)

Canageek,
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@Nifflas My Dad used to say Cosmic back in the day, 8

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    Canageek,
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    @aetataureate Is that a serious question?

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    Canageek,
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    @aetataureate oh I can tell you that, we just really get sick of typing incredibly long scientific terms over and over again. I don't use abbreviations like that, because I use latex and just set up a macro with a short form, but behind the scenes I'm typing \aur\ instead of auraphilic and \cp\ instead of writing out coordination polymer every time.

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    Podbean is a great app! it is the only music player I've ever used that randomly stops playing every 20 minutes for no reason.

    I had a better experience with Winamp back in 1998 and it would periodically skip because I didn't have enough CPU to use it and Internet Explorer at the same time

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    @foone ....would you like a reliable, open-source android podcatcher recommendation or are you having fun?

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    @foone I like @AntennaPod myself, but the fdroid store has several ones with different UIs that all seem to work well. This one just matches what I like.

    kit, to random

    you know, you never really know how good you have it in contemporary programming languages until you have to slog through things in a dialect of basic for some reason (mostly screwing around on https://telehack.com)

    feeling like a genius for getting anything done, but also i'm already at the point of wanting to make a build system for a better language to compile to this

    Canageek,
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    @kit Be glad you aren't using C64 Basic. My Dad told me about using it. Variable names could only be two letters, but you could have arrays, so for a lot of things you had to put unrelated things into an array, just to have enough variable names.

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