Notices by Graham Sutherland / Polynomial (gsuberland@chaos.social)

@jmorris @Extelec I have the parts, just need the time.

@Extelec I really need to build my sferics detector

excited to meet friends and moths at emf

also, if you find moths at #emfcamp, take pictures and send them to me

always a great selection of moths there

we need a hashtag like #emothcamp or something

my phone's eye comfort setting has a "screen colour temperature" setting. when you set it to low it goes more cold white. when you set it to high it goes more warm white. worst config blunder in the entire phone, I hate it.

@soatok I particularly enjoyed @q 's post in that thread. perfectly put.

@ryanc it would be very funny if you booted up The Sims and the loading screen said "Running 4-wire Kelvin Test..."

@ryanc I had some mental whiplash there when I started reading this as the Space Sphere and half way through it turned into Tim Curry in Red Alert

@ryanc would you go to space if they let you go to space

@ryanc whoever the mystical "they" is in this scenario

I have made the mistake of looking up what happens when you extend quaternions to reasoning about 4+ dimensional Euclidean spaces.

@ryanc imagining a gender alignment chart that requires quaternions to evaluate

non-trinary

@thomasfuchs the AC install was oversized though. he's got 3 splits right now and the installer said he could cool 3 more room without an issue. normally you wouldn't want to oversize that much because of the efficiency curves, but there were supply issues that limited the options, and even running in the lower efficiency band it's still very good. an upside is the exchanger fan runs at just a few percent duty so it's silent outside.

@thomasfuchs my dad got solar installed a while back and then realised he had so much spare energy in the summer that installing a full AC system was a no brainer. and it's so much more efficient than portable units - he cools three large rooms with the same amount of power it takes for me to cool one medium size room with one of my portable units, and it's still less than half the average solar energy he's producing. obviously the upfront outlay is way higher though (£8k for his AC install).

it's annoying that Inter has become the default font of choice for vibecoded websites, to the point where it's one of the most obvious indicators of slop, because I *really* like that font.

work is doing a thing called Patch The Planet where we collaborate with open source projects to find and fix security vulnerabilities. projects who signed up get a dedicated engineer assigned for up to a week full time to go ham looking for security bugs and helping patch them. I was super hyped to see SciPy on the list of projects who signed up, so I jumped at that one! really looking forward to it.

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