<rqou>
at least you're now well enough to work on glasgow? so i guess that's a positive
<whitequark>
rqou: no
<whitequark>
it's a distraction
<rqou>
:(
<azonenberg_work>
i know the feeling... my single most productive 24h period on antikernel was probably the night my ex left me
<whitequark>
now imagine feeling like that for literal years
<whitequark>
something like ten years at this point
<whitequark>
not quite continuously, but close to it
<rqou>
wait wait azonenberg_work has an ex?!
<whitequark>
do you see why i have so much opensource now
<rqou>
even that doesn't quite fit my mental image of how azonenberg_work should behave :P
<azonenberg_work>
rqou: lol
<azonenberg_work>
rqou: My dating life, for lack of a better term, was heavily optimized
<azonenberg_work>
I tried to weed out incompatible people as quickly as possible
<whitequark>
that sounds like azonenberg alright
<azonenberg_work>
Of the folks i messaged on various dating sites, most never responded (typical in general)
<azonenberg_work>
Of those who i started a conversation with, maybe 1/8 progressed to the point of getting a phone number
<azonenberg_work>
actually probably less than that
<azonenberg_work>
About 50 folks total i'd say, i could give you an exact count but my NAS is already packed up and that's where the db of "numbers i deleted from my phone but kept around so I'd be able to ID calls/texts from them" lives
<rqou>
wtf
<rqou>
so i'm not the only data hoarder :P
<azonenberg_work>
Not just exes, that includes things like coworkers who quit
<azonenberg_work>
inactive clients
<azonenberg_work>
classmates i worked on grup projects with
<azonenberg_work>
etc
<azonenberg_work>
i keep the actual phone contact list fairly well trimmed but every once in a while i have to dig somebody up
<rqou>
on this topic, azonenberg_work: IOA should try attacking the CNAM database
<azonenberg_work>
Anyway of those, maybe 15-20 made it to an in-person date
<azonenberg_work>
I scared most of them off quickly :p
<azonenberg_work>
I only saw 4 of them more than once
<rqou>
hey random question: whitequark: how expensive is a dean stark trap in RU?
<azonenberg_work>
There was one classmate that i did a lab tour / hang out with and then a movie night, then dropped out (for non-academic reasons), that wasn't from a dating site so doesnt count toward the percentages
<rqou>
whitequark: why does the stuff that nurdrage showcases cost like CAD$600?
<whitequark>
rqou: how much?!
<whitequark>
that's absurd
<rqou>
blame sigma-aldrich i guess
<whitequark>
rushim imports this shit from CN at rock bottom prices, in fact they specifically say on the website to NOT insure packages
<azonenberg_work>
There was one girl that i did a couple of movie nights and a hike with, but it never went anywhere and was more like "we're both bored and lonely while our classmates are gone for the summer"
<whitequark>
because it's more expensive to pay for insurance than just reordering when something breaks
<rqou>
oh wait this is a heavy-return trap
<azonenberg_work>
Then there was my crazy ex
<rqou>
but still
<azonenberg_work>
and finally $wife
<rqou>
why CAD$600 wtf?!
<whitequark>
rqou: there's the other kind of trap at rushim too
<whitequark>
but their website is shite so i don't wanna find it
<whitequark>
wtf chrome removed the encoding selector
<whitequark>
assholes
<rqou>
anyways, is the CAD$600 apparatus really that much better than a china $10 apparatus?
<rqou>
i mean, it's just a shaped piece of glass, right?
<whitequark>
yes
<whitequark>
no it's not better
<rqou>
i did notice that some ebay fractional distillation columns are shit, but you can see that they'
<rqou>
they're shit
<whitequark>
when you buy in rushim you're told to check if your glass has any holes in them and return if they have
<whitequark>
a $600 one would probably not have any of those
<rqou>
i.e. very short, very few plates/protrusions/etc.
<whitequark>
but "looking for holes" is not worth $590
<rqou>
lolol
<whitequark>
i actually had to return a soxhlet because it had a hole
<rqou>
well, it's only like USD$500 :P
<rqou>
moosebucks aren't worth that much :P :P
<whitequark>
they chided me for not looking carefully enough but exchanged without any question
<whitequark>
rushim is... a weird place.
<whitequark>
they have two sets of glass they are selling
<whitequark>
one of them is "from a fire"
<whitequark>
the other is "from a flood"
<whitequark>
i got some glass from both
<whitequark>
one had wrapping paper burned (they dgaf and didn't change it), the other had wrapping paper with water damage
<whitequark>
checks out
<rqou>
lololol
<whitequark>
also the whole "liquid bromine, 3kg, pickup only" thing
<whitequark>
i once went there to pick up a 100g bromine ampoule and they were out of them
<whitequark>
the shop owner suggested i get the 3 kg one and then split it into smaller ones
<rqou>
ah ok, in this nurdrage video he also features some indian seller of glassware that has some of this stuff for like ₹1500 or USD$25
<rqou>
why are americans so willing to get themselves ripped off?
<whitequark>
then continued in a very casual tone, "yesterday some guys went to pick up a 100g one... we were out... they bought the 3kg one... broke it almost immediately"
<azonenberg_work>
lol
<azonenberg_work>
and then what? :p
<azonenberg_work>
did he have to hose them off the sidewalk?
<whitequark>
methamphetamine to pseudoephedrine requires a well equipped lab
<whitequark>
naloxone from oxycontine is trivial
<whitequark>
like, the J. Apoch. Chem. paper by O. Hai and I. B. Hakkenshit is a joke. no one would actually want to do that.
<zkms>
if the "O. Hai and I. B. Hakkenshit" part wasn't enough to tell
<zkms>
(also amphetamine is a good enough decongestant by itself)
<whitequark>
i think the synthesis route they present works
<whitequark>
but it's not practical
<whitequark>
four steps, one of them is BuLi in THF in LN2
<whitequark>
like seriously?!
<rqou>
yeah that requires a pretty extensive lab
<whitequark>
not even that
<whitequark>
it's just a lot of work
<whitequark>
all those steps are going to take, i'd say, several days
<azonenberg_work>
i mean i guess it makes sense that you could make narcan from an opiate
<azonenberg_work>
iirc the way it works is to bind to opiate receptors
<azonenberg_work>
but in a way that blocks them rather than activating them
<whitequark>
yes, it's a silent agonist
<whitequark>
the interesting part here is just how easy it is
<azonenberg_work>
So its structure is probably a minimal tweak to an actual opiate
<rqou>
what is the actual procedure? i didn't actually see a description of that
<whitequark>
ask bofh
<azonenberg_work>
ok, i need to sleep
<azonenberg_work>
The office is fully broken down and about 95% packed, still have to put the wife's computer and printer plus a switch in boxes
<rqou>
heh i'm watching the latest Applied Science video and noticed that apparently current-limiting light bulbs are really really common
<rqou>
somehow they never seem to actually teach that in class though :P
<azonenberg_work>
Lab still needs a decent amount of work but the movers arent coming until 9ish and if i work much longer i'm gonna start breaking stuff
<azonenberg_work>
So hmm, get up at 6? :p
<azonenberg_work>
4 hrs of sleep is better than none
<azonenberg_work>
And i dont need to pack up the entire lab, just clear off all of the big benches and racks etc
<azonenberg_work>
Since the small stuff can be transpoted later in the day in the car
<azonenberg_work>
I just need them to take anything too big/heavy
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<whitequark>
but only works if the nick is travis-ci for some reason
<rqou>
ok, well, it was at one point
<whitequark>
anyway, woo, glasgow CI works
<rqou>
maybe travis is whitelisted
<whitequark>
now to add tests to applets
<rqou>
another random offtopic observation: apparently that fancy multimeter designed by that annoying aussie bloke is _also_ centered around a chinese DMM AFE chip
<rqou>
are these chips actually any good or are they just cheap?
<daveshah>
They certainly reduce the part count
<daveshah>
I suspect they are a lot cheaper than any alternative
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