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schroeder
schroeder
00:20
@Xander that user has been around for 25 days ....
Xander
Xander
@schroeder Sure enough. Weird. Looking at it more closely, though it's eerily similar to the other posts today, there are actually some differences.
Rory Alsop
Rory Alsop
00:43
@Xander @schroeder - I'm beginning to wonder whether Android.SE might be a better plane for these
 
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hakermania
hakermania
07:47
@D.W. Hey there. I don't really understand what the problem is with my question here: security.stackexchange.com/questions/89920/… It isn't 5 questions. Also, given enough time and spending it in research, one can become expert on any field and answer any of their current's questions.
Rоry McCune
Rоry McCune
@hakermania watcha' hackermania, so I'm not @D.W. nor am I a mod, but I guess he may well think that you have 5 questions there as you have a bullet point list with 5 items starting with "here are my questions", does kind of give the impression of multiple questions :)
hakermania
hakermania
@RоryMcCune nope. I just have 2 questions in the security stack exchange, both with positive voting and only the one has bullet points (which, personally, I find no issue with).
Rоry McCune
Rоry McCune
@hakermania in the question you linked you say "Here are my questions" and then have a list of 5 bullets with related but different questions
that, I think is what, @D.W. is referring to
hakermania
hakermania
Oh, better rephrase it
Rоry McCune
Rоry McCune
yeah that could well help :)
 
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Rоry McCune
Rоry McCune
09:12
Watcha' @TerryChia hows tricks?
Terry Chia
Terry Chia
@RоryMcCune Not too bad! Preparing my Pycon talk slides actually.
Rоry McCune
Rоry McCune
@TerryChia cool stuff, when is it?
Terry Chia
Terry Chia
@RоryMcCune 18 and 19 June. Still have some time left.
Rоry McCune
Rоry McCune
yeah that's not too close in.
what's your topic?
Terry Chia
Terry Chia
@RоryMcCune Writing an interpreter in Python.
Rоry McCune
Rоry McCune
09:15
@TerryChia should be an interesting talk to research/do..
I'm happy that I've done my talking for the time being, unless I come up with some inspiration not planning to submit anything for the rest of the year...
Terry Chia
Terry Chia
@RоryMcCune Mmm hmm. I have a toy interpreter I'm working on in my spare time.
Rоry McCune
Rоry McCune
@TerryChia yeah talks like that are good as motivation to keep working on things :)
Rory Alsop
Rory Alsop
Morning all
Rоry McCune
Rоry McCune
Watcha' @RoryAlsop
Rory Alsop
Rory Alsop
Would have been in to chat earlier, but trawling through all the odd user accounts posting rubbish Android questions
Rоry McCune
Rоry McCune
09:19
I saw Eoin at AppSec, he says Hi :)
Rory Alsop
Rory Alsop
Cool - how's he doing?
Not spoken to him in ages
Rоry McCune
Rоry McCune
@RoryAlsop well, his company has apparently made it into Gartner magic quadrants now!
Rory Alsop
Rory Alsop
wow - nice
Rоry McCune
Rоry McCune
So he has the delight of running/growing the company and speaking to VC/investor types
Rory Alsop
Rory Alsop
is he still stirring up OWASP? :-)
Rоry McCune
Rоry McCune
09:21
@RoryAlsop heh, well he's definitely still in the mix, but OWASP never seems to lack for people who want to stir things up :)
 
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TildalWave
TildalWave
12:42
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A: Maximum speed reachable by Saturn V

Robert ClarkTo Rory, delete this answer after you read it. However, as a beginner I don't yet have comment capability. I tried to respond to Philip's answer and couldn't do that either. This is written as an answer for the same reason.

^ yeah @RoryAlsop, delete it :)
"morning"
Rory Alsop
Rory Alsop
@TildalWave eh - lolwut
and morning
TildalWave
TildalWave
13:18
I can't wake up properly ... we had like 3-4 days of rain now and not even strong coffee helps. Really glad it's weekend.
Rory Alsop
Rory Alsop
Wow. Here is amazing. I have just popped to the shops so had to put at-shirt on. Doubling my garments for the day. Very very hot and sunny
TildalWave
TildalWave
Inorite? It should be 30 deg C now. It came from up north so I blame Germans :)
maybe if they stopped harvesting our wind for their electricity ... :D
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
Damned Germans, Breaking wind all the time.
TildalWave
TildalWave
I'm gonna star this :)
@TildalWave Because I am actually trying to develop a control system for an ADCS ( I already have th AD-part). I understood your explanation but what do you mean by "gimbal"? What is the easiest to steer a thruster or a flywheel (for a beginner, I am not speaking about the electronic circuit needed for it or so)? — trilolil 3 mins ago
this is rather funny for those that will understand it
I mean, the answer is "you control current and with it coil polarity", but if he's developing a control system for an ADCS he should really know all of this already
How do you steer your magnetorquer?
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Terry Chia
Terry Chia
13:47
@TildalWave Butterflies actually.
TildalWave
TildalWave
14:26
@TerryChia Yeah? Haven't you heard of the butterfly effect? Only Germans would use butterflies to steer a magnetorquer :)
 
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Rory Alsop
Rory Alsop
15:36
It is worrying he doesn't know what a gimbal is...
TildalWave
TildalWave
16:09
or anything about control theory, or what a magnetorquer even is, or what I suspect will be next, what is the environment that it will be applied to
I'm tempted to post a maths whiteout answer :) Would that be mean?
Rory Alsop
Rory Alsop
Hehehehehe - it might help inform them they have a bunch of learning to do yet
TildalWave
TildalWave
vector sets and eigenvalues ... that should discourage the most persistent ones LOL
I'm not sure I ever used matrices in MathJax tho, I might discourage myself in the process
Rory Alsop
Rory Alsop
Vectors were the one bit of maths I didn't feel was natural. I could do them, but it was by rote. At least with calculus I could feel what the maths was doing
TildalWave
TildalWave
16:37
ditto
I'm fine with vector space but as soon as I place those values in a matrix I can't picture it easily any more. OK, two dimensions is still easy but it's almost never as simple as that.
and all those stupid combination to crawl your way to some value you want to extract from it ... far from intuitive, at least to me
Rhino
Rhino
17:35
@TildalWave matrices in tex are an arse. I've got a bunch of cls files for that sort of thing.
Rоry McCune
Rоry McCune
18:17
Evenin' All, I'm home, Yay \o/
@M'vy BTW I have high hopes that this time the video of my talk will actually make it onto the Internet
Adi
Adi
@RоryMcCune Great blog post
Rоry McCune
Rоry McCune
@Adi thanks :) I had some time in the airport and I've been meaning to write that up for a while now...
@Adi you find your other friends ok last night?
Adi
Adi
18:54
@RоryMcCune Please don't remind me. I regret meeting up with that guy.
Rоry McCune
Rоry McCune
@Adi ahh, oh dear :/ you mean the guy I met, or a different dude?
Adi
Adi
@RоryMcCune The guy with whom we had the Duvel
Rоry McCune
Rоry McCune
@Adi he was an .. unusual fellow!
Adi
Adi
It wasn't until yesterday that I realized "Oh wow, I'm old"
Rоry McCune
Rоry McCune
@Adi s/old/mature/g
which is to say it's not necessarily a bad thing :)
Adi
Adi
18:56
Annoying, childish, has 0 interesting thing to say, embarrassed the shit out of me at the RDL
To be honest, I'd rather spend time with @Simon
Rоry McCune
Rоry McCune
@Adi ooops, yeah I could imagine young guys in that area might be a bit embarrasing!
@Adi LOL
Adi
Adi
@RоryMcCune In the end, he got so so sooo high that I had to basically carry him
Rоry McCune
Rоry McCune
@Adi oh noes, that's not good, did you manage to get him back to his place ok?
Adi
Adi
In the morning, I told him that he can either go to his city or just spend the rest of the time in Amsterdam on his own.
I bought him a train ticket back to his city and he left.
Needless to say, that's the last time I'm ever gonna see him
Rоry McCune
Rоry McCune
@Adi sounds like the best option...
Adi
Adi
18:59
Indeed
Rоry McCune
Rоry McCune
19:40
hey @Simon @DavidFreitag I found a new song for you :)
WHEN WILL THE BASS DROP? (ft. Lil Jon)
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TildalWave
TildalWave
20:52
@RоryMcCune Wouldn't those two be busy watching Eurovision now? :))
 
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David Freitag
David Freitag
22:00
@RоryMcCune Heh, it's not too bad actually.
Rhino
Rhino
@RоryMcCune That is the best parody of drum and bass ever.

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