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Jan

03:13

I still want to fly one of those 380s …

The pain … when you discover an OP has self-answered but they got it wrong, you draw up the ChemDraw orbital diagrams, start writing up an answer and then the orange dropdown turns up (●o≧д≦)o ┻━┻ミ＼（≧ロ≦＼）

3 hours later…

Martin - マーチン

06:31

@Jan what orange dropdown, you mean the edit thingy?

Jan

06:58

@Martin-マーチン The ‘this question has been closed and answers will no longer be accepted.’ thingy.

Martin - マーチン

well, never seen that one before...

Jan

It only happens if you are in the process of typing an answer while a question receives the final close vote.

Oh yeah, saw your comment on my comment on meta — I hope you noticed I was just joking (and didn’t even have any data as to your active or inactive close vote participation) ^^

Loong

07:44

Dec 28 '16 at 1:42, by Loong

Did you check whether the trick using the browser console to reenable the "post your answer" button on the client-side still works?

2 hours later…

Jan

09:56

@Loong Yes, you posted that before. But the trick is too much work for me especially using Safari at work …

4 hours later…

pentavalentcarbon

13:49

every time I think I have all my handy equations typeset somewhere...nope

Zhe

@pentavalentcarbon Do it now

pentavalentcarbon

I should have said I have all the ones typeset that I've ever needed...

hunting for the &*&@#! equations is the real problem

Zhe

Ahhh, you need a better system

Do it now

You should just have a master file with equations listed by topic and indexed by the variables used

pentavalentcarbon

a better system...pssshhhh all my notes are in a git-controlled folder of random markdown/latex/org-mode files with some pdfs of scanned handwritten stuff...

I'm super prepared to write my dissertation!

Zhe

!!facepalm

(I'm not really one to talk, given the state of things prior to writing)

pentavalentcarbon

13:58

for once MQM is useful: $\hat{\mathbf{m}} = \gamma_{\mathrm{e}} \hat{\mathbf{l}} = -\frac{e}{2m_{\mathrm{e}}} \hat{\mathbf{l}} \approx (\hat{l}_{x}, \hat{l}_{y}, \hat{l}_{z})$

crisis averted

Mithoron

-1

Q: Flow of current in graphite

Why current flows through graphite if we join the poles of a battery to it horizontally and why not vertically?

electrochemistry

Zhe

@pentavalentcarbon I think \left and \right would look better here

pentavalentcarbon

ok, hold on...

Mithoron

Whose the fastest comment-slinger ;)

pentavalentcarbon

I usually remember it too

Zhe

14:00

$\hat{\mathbf{m}} = \gamma_{\mathrm{e}} \hat{\mathbf{l}} = -\frac{e}{2m_{\mathrm{e}}} \hat{\mathbf{l}} \approx \left(\hat{l}_{x}, \hat{l}_{y}, \hat{l}_{z}\right)$

eh, marginal

spacing is weird, but that's $\LaTeX$

pentavalentcarbon

usually the spacing is better in latex than in mathjax

Zhe

@Mithoron I'm listed first, so I'll accept the win. I'd like to thank the academy...

Mithoron

@Zhe You were 5 sec faster but your shoot was a miss ;)

Zhe

@pentavalentcarbon This is true

@Mithoron Wait, what did I miss?

I mean Ivan's snark makes his comment better

Or are you just talking about dupe?

Mithoron

@Zhe Of course ;D

pentavalentcarbon

14:03

though this is a problem that actually appears in latex too

Zhe

@Mithoron I am super bad at dupes

Mithoron

pentavalentcarbon

only one may be the dupe master!

Zhe

Don't aim to be dupe master?

pentavalentcarbon

what, you didn't learn to give up in grad school?

Mithoron

14:07

@pentavalentcarbon :D

pentavalentcarbon

Yes, it's hard, but it does force you to get better acquainted with the searching syntax.

Zhe

@pentavalentcarbon Giving up early is the most important thing I learned in grad school

I'm not even joking

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pentavalentcarbon

17:16

@Zhe I'm assuming you mean the "I can tell this path of logic/set of reactions/etc. is going nowhere" and not something else...

Zhe

17:27

@pentavalentcarbon Also correct is "graduate school is not providing me what I want from life, I should probably have quit earlier."

pentavalentcarbon

that's 3 thunks you've given me

but yes I agree

Zhe

I've lost count, but overloaded advice is always free

pentavalentcarbon

except in Python where it doesn't exist

orthocresol

18:21

Q: 2nd order distortion of XeF6 from Oh point group to?

I have made a molecular orbital diagram for XeF6... I am trying to figure out if a distortion from Oh can take place and to which (lower symmetry) point group it would be. I know that it will involve the HOMO ag interacting with the tu orbital (bonding). Using descent of symmetry table Oh I have...