01:12 <pikajude> incomprehensibly: get the lcd 2f

01:35 <incomprehensibly> ec: yeah it's an upper level course

01:35 <incomprehensibly> ec: exploring a bunch of stuff, using racket

01:37 <incomprehensibly> i'm looking for like really useful clinical flat highly detailed headphones

01:38 <incomprehensibly> useful for studio work or w/e

01:42 <incomprehensibly> ec: i've finished all the cs major requirements and i'm just doing electives

01:43 <gq> wow really? neat incomprehensibly

01:43 <incomprehensibly> yeah it will probs still be 2 years until i graduate

01:43 <incomprehensibly> though

01:53 <incomprehensibly> pikajude: a little bit out of my price range

02:06 <pikajude> oh ok

02:06 <pikajude> what's your price range

02:09 <incomprehensibly> preferably <$500

02:10 <incomprehensibly> ec: who is that dog

02:10 <ec> help

02:10 <ec> i am so fucking sleepy

02:11 <ec> incomprehensibly: that is dog charlie

02:11 <ec> siste'rs new $1,800 (ಠ_ಠ ಠ_ಠ ಠ_ಠ) puppy (ಠ_ಠ)

02:11 <ec> that the family all love (ಠ_ಠ ಠ_ಠ ಠ_ಠ ಠ_ಠ ಠ_ಠ ಠ_ಠ ಠ_ಠ ಠ_ಠ ಠ_ಠ ಠ_ಠ ಠ_ಠ ಠ_ಠ)

02:40 <ljharb> what are the ಠ_ಠs for

03:01 <ec> -diaptoval

03:01 <purr> ec: diaptoval, diaptoval forever

03:28 <Rurik> ec, I'd do it, but I have no idea about ASM

05:10 <ec> Rurik: do what

06:02 <Rurik> <ec> Rurik: come write my MIPS -_-

16:15 <audy> hi hi

18:45 <ec> hi hi audy

18:46 <ec> ugh i slept through my first class

18:46 <ec> and then fell *back* asleep

18:46 <ec> and now it's like two pm

19:01 <pikajude> i've spent $525 on therapy in the past 12 hours

19:01 <pikajude> sorry, 18 hours

19:01 <pikajude> christ it's expensive not being healthy

19:12 <ec> the fuck is a long hundredweight

19:12 <ec> fuck, i hate our units-and-measures systems

19:20 <jfhbrook> I adore imperial units

19:20 <jfhbrook> they're just so

19:20 <jfhbrook> quaint

19:20 <jfhbrook> and adorable

19:21 <jfhbrook> like finding an old stone cottage in the french alps

19:21 <jfhbrook> ...is that how that works? I've never been to Europe

19:25 <jfhbrook> anyways, imperial units are hilarious, and kind of a nice trick

19:26 <jfhbrook> f=ma right? in terms of gravity on earth at sea level, this is roughly w = mg (w is weight)

19:26 <jfhbrook> now, there are actually *to* kinds of pounds

19:26 <jfhbrook> lbf and lbm

19:26 <jfhbrook> so, something with a *mass* of 1 lb, at sea level, *weights* 1lb within some tiny margin of error

19:27 <jfhbrook> in other words, 32.2 lbm * ft / s^2 = 1 lbf

19:27 <jfhbrook> note that you can do the same thing with kilograms force, though that's not an SI thing and is kinda hilarious, BUT the russians totally used kgf for rocketry

19:28 <jfhbrook> but the *best* units are like, barrels, and chains

19:28 <jfhbrook> speaking of surveying, there are multiple definitions of the foot

19:29 <jfhbrook> depending on whether you're using the "that's it we're pegging everything to SI" foot or the "this is what Americans have been using for surveying for decades" foot

19:29 <jfhbrook> I believe there are others as well

19:59 <jfhbrook> oh yeah, more on that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_(unit)#Pre-1959 There's the US old-school foot pegged to SI, the imperial old-school foot based on a standard yard (a metal stick basically), the international foot as defined by treaty, and then the US survey foot which was defined using a DIFFERENT "that's it we're pegging everything to SI" conversion factor

19:59 <jfhbrook> all of which are imperceptibly different close up but which can add up in the aggregate when used, for instance, in surveying

21:33 <ec> lolll

21:33 <purr> lolololol

21:33 <ec> the French got this one thing right

21:37 <jfhbrook> well it's like anything

21:37 <jfhbrook> they were able to come in after the fact and suggest something that learned from the mistakes of prior systems

21:37 <jfhbrook> it helps that they were on a huge decimal kick

21:38 <jfhbrook> reportedly they also tried to change time to have 10 segments, but hours/minutes/etc were too entrenched

21:41 <jfhbrook> 12 is nice though, because it's divisible by 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 12

21:41 <jfhbrook> a lotta factors

21:42 <jfhbrook> 10 only has 1 5 and 10

22:21 <ec> -ujd @ jfhbrook

22:21 <purr> jfhbrook: UNIX/Julian Date (more info: http://yreality.net/UJD)

22:21 <ec> -sol @ jfhbrook

22:21 <purr> jfhbrook: 16 973 ſ 931 508

22:21 <ec> -sol @ jfhbrook

22:21 <purr> jfhbrook: 16 973 ſ 931 875