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<incomprehensibly> ELLIOTTCABLE: i maybe know 2% more than you and could help
<incomprehensibly> maybe not
<incomprehensibly> i actually know nothing about electronics
<ELLIOTTCABLE> incomprehensibly: >:
<ELLIOTTCABLE> well like basics โ€” without *specific instructions*, idk designing a circuit?
<ELLIOTTCABLE> also I'm having my normal โ€˜weird programmer responseโ€™ to learning a new thing that isn't programming
<ELLIOTTCABLE> โ€œwhy isn't this more specific? why is everything they say so wishy-washy? why don't they define every one of their terms in intimate detail, and then provide measurements to N degrees of precision?!?โ€
<gnomon> ELLIOTTCABLE, 'cuz you're reading a man page instead of an RFC!
<ELLIOTTCABLE> like I'm reading this little tutorial on building an audio-mixer, which is half-way to what I want to build; but it doesn't even include actual part numbers, or the resistances of resistors, or shit
<ELLIOTTCABLE> it just says "a resistor here" and "a pot here" and I'm like DON'T I NEED MORE SPECIFIC INFORMATION THAN THAT!? HOW CAN THAT JUST WORK!?!?
<ELLIOTTCABLE> math is the same way โ€” I'm all like NONE OF THIS NOTATION MAKES ANY INTERNALLY COHERENT SENSE, CAN YOU PLEASE REDESIGN THIS LANGUAGE BEFORE TRYING TO TEACH IT TO ME
<ELLIOTTCABLE> silly mathematicians.
<ELLIOTTCABLE> excepting math, it's weird how top-down *everything* but programming is
<ELLIOTTCABLE> like ... well of *course* electronics stuff makes no sense; they're all quietly ignoring their compiler, because they don't fucking understand it
<gnomon> ELLIOTTCABLE, ever read anything on the topic of the badness of symbolic representation by Ken Iverson?
<gnomon> ELLIOTTCABLE, also, on that same topic, I feel like you and @mhoye would share some frustrations.
<ELLIOTTCABLE> you kinda *have* to be top-down person to do physical engineering, because we don't even have a coherent theory as to how the compiler at the bottom actually works
<ELLIOTTCABLE> gnomon: /invite
<gnomon> @mhoye? On Freenode? Heh.
<ELLIOTTCABLE> what
<gnomon> He's a Mozilla guy, his presence on Freenode is truly minimal.
<ELLIOTTCABLE> oh lord *eyeroll*
<ELLIOTTCABLE> โ™ช BLING, BLING, BITCH; DO MY OWN THANG, BITCH
<ELLIOTTCABLE> โ™ช FUCK A WEDDIN' RING THAT DING-A-LING WAS JUST A FLING, BITCH
<ELLIOTTCABLE> purrrrrrrr
<ELLIOTTCABLE> grr
<ELLIOTTCABLE> โŒ˜\ is 1Password, but also Chrome's inspector's โ€œcontinueโ€
<ELLIOTTCABLE> and it's not configurable เฒ _เฒ 
<ELLIOTTCABLE> gnomon: R U SIGN UP 4 TEST YET
<ELLIOTTCABLE> incomprehensibly: ditto
<gnomon> ELLIOTTCABLE, no sir. Not in the cards for this year.
<gnomon> January, though: likely.
<ELLIOTTCABLE> but but but it's so easy
<ELLIOTTCABLE> you can doooo
<ELLIOTTCABLE> http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/tot.htm โ€” found
<gnomon> Yeah, my problem is 100% not related to any nervousness about the ease or lack thereof of the test. Entirely other factors.
<gnomon> ELLIOTTCABLE, ah, that's a good starting point.
<ELLIOTTCABLE> hahahah
<ELLIOTTCABLE> not nervousness โ€” I'm assuming you're busy, and insisting you could fit it in ;)
<ELLIOTTCABLE> I want to talk in this channel about HAM shit :D
<ELLIOTTCABLE> incomprehensibly: can't wait to get on some DMR repeater shit and talk to you
<ELLIOTTCABLE> idk DMR yet but
<ELLIOTTCABLE> ยฏ\_(ใƒ„)_/ยฏ
<ELLIOTTCABLE> Ellie Goulding, baebaebae
<ELLIOTTCABLE> I absolutely love that the HTML embed for Spotify *shows the current progress* in my own local Spotify client
<gnomon> ELLIOTTCABLE, for whatever it's worth, my father in law is VA3FAM - @rjbeeth on Twitter.
<ELLIOTTCABLE> :D
<gnomon> ELLIOTTCABLE, he's not in this channel but he's definitely a big HAM.
* ELLIOTTCABLE laughs
<ELLIOTTCABLE> then expose him to IRC
<gnomon> uh
<ELLIOTTCABLE> just say โ€œThere's a guy who's trying to get me into HAMโ€
<gnomon> I didn't mean that as a joke but I just re-read what I typed.
<ELLIOTTCABLE> and he'll be like โ€œI want to meet this person!โ€
<gnomon> heh
<ELLIOTTCABLE> then drop the โ€œyou have to learn to use a computer tho.โ€
<gnomon> I think you and he might get along.
<gnomon> ELLIOTTCABLE, naw man, he's been into computers since before I was born.
<ELLIOTTCABLE> oh โ€œHappily retired techieโ€ lmao
<ELLIOTTCABLE> oh wtf he's probably on the same repeaters as me
<ELLIOTTCABLE> he's outside Champaigne?
<ELLIOTTCABLE> cannot spell that shit ever
<gnomon> ELLIOTTCABLE, professionally, too. Worked for Canadian sigint agencies. Lifelong NDA; he's been retired for many years, the feds still interview the neighbours every couple of months to make sure he's maintaining infosec.
<gnomon> ELLIOTTCABLE, he was posted up in some northern base listening posts for a long time.
<ELLIOTTCABLE> haha there's a few sigint people on specifically *these same repeaters*
<ELLIOTTCABLE> there's always the โ€œWhat's your call, where do you live, can you talk about what you do for a job?โ€
<gnomon> Probably pals (:
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<ELLIOTTCABLE> brr!
<ELLIOTTCABLE> brr: r u still super-weird
<gnomon> Anywhoop, I've got to hit the old road and head home - hoping to not get hit by any cars on the way, bike lanes are a disaster after the first major snowfall of the season last night.
<gnomon> Hope to catch y'all tomorrow!
<ELLIOTTCABLE> o7
<ELLIOTTCABLE> oh wow, second Millennium Problem solved
<ELLIOTTCABLE> + see rejected nodes in the `seen` argument (144877556ms)
<ELLIOTTCABLE> that's a long fucking test-case
<ELLIOTTCABLE> when you spend a month (off-and-on) debugging a test failure, only to find it's a reproducible bug in your *testing library*
<ELLIOTTCABLE> argh software development arg
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