The h Bar

12:31 AM

@Danu What the...I usually fill pages with more or less coherent scribblings before I produce anything resembling a proof :D

@Danu It's standard terminology (for algebraic geometers/number theorists)

@Danu There's a lot more RPGs out there than fantasy. Horror stories? Sci-Fi? Noir/detective stories? Apocalyptic survival? For almost any genre, we've got you covered ;)

(I'll stop spamming you now :D )

@JamalS I believe you want the definition of a gauge connection or principal connection.

Danu

12:48 AM

@ACuriousMind you woke me up. Also, I count all of those as fantasy.

ACuriousMind

Sorry...you entered the room just as I read, so I figured you were awake already...strange

Danu

Certainly was not online. Oh well.

I'll turn off the app, I guess

user54412

2:07 AM

@KyleKanos Don't listen to the mathematicians in the room! :P

ACuriousMind

I'm confused...what kind of edit summary is this?

user54412

Sean Carroll's GR book covers everything you need in the subject

Kyle Kanos

@ChrisWhite I've that one on my Amazon list too ;)

user54412

it assumes very little (honestly, basic linear algebra is the only prereq for GR), but if you read it cover to cover I can assure you you'll know more GR than most people who write papers on it

user54412

(yes, I've spent the last week and a half chasing inconsistencies, bad notation, and erroneous statements in the literature ::mumble::)

user54412

2:11 AM

@ACuriousMind I think it's because the messages feed in the room (in the upper left) shows all new questions posted to the main site, and it looks like it's shouting when in caps

user54412

I approved, because I was going to make the same edit myself, though I suppose the message will really confuse the OP

Kyle Kanos

I've left some rather interesting edit summaries

But I never remember which ones they're on, so I couldn't tell you

ACuriousMind

I see...of all things annoying me about questions, all caps in the chat feed is probably the least severe, but... shrug

user54412

Whenever I see all caps I instinctively want to do v$u, but then I remember my browser is not vim

Kyle Kanos

vim....*shudders*

user54412

2:16 AM

fortran.... passes out :P

dmckee

Of course it isn't vim ... it's suppose to be emacs. Isn't it?

Cheeku

For me, it's Vim! good Morning, btw!

user54412

@dmckee all the young people seem to be using sublime these days

dmckee

Kids these days.

ACuriousMind

What would I need such an editor for? :P

Kyle Kanos

2:18 AM

sublime sucks: it has no Fortran support

user54412

theorists these days...

Kyle Kanos

For whatever dumb reason they've come up with

dmckee

There may come a time with emacers and vimites can join together in love and understanding and a shared hatred for those juvenile delinquents and their gesture interfaced editors.

user54412

@KyleKanos that's odd -- I would have thought that underneath the hood is an off-the-shelf parser (lexer?) that already understands fortran

Kyle Kanos

I tend to use nano when forced to (logging into clusters), but otherwise I just use an IDE like every other programmer that isn't a physicist

@ChrisWhite You have to bootstrap it via user-made mods

I like geany because it has built-in language support for about 100 languages (including distinct ones for F77 and Modern Fortran)

And it has RegEx find+replace built in

user54412

2:24 AM

sounds like vim :P

user54412

to be honest, when I see other physicists using vim I shudder

Kyle Kanos

Except it doesn't have an insanely high learning curve and doesn't require you to enter a few keys to edit the file you just opened

user54412

most of them do it in a terminal and can't for instance use the mouse with it

user54412

and they never bother to set a color scheme that works

Kyle Kanos

Why the @#$^ wouldn't I want to edit the file I just opened!? If I wanted to see its contents, I'd just cat it out.

user54412

2:28 AM

That's a question which should be asked at physics.stackexchange.com ;) — Dariusz 14 hours ago

user54412

oh dear

dmckee

@KyleKanos C-M-%

@ChrisWhite It actually has a very good answer already on parenting so we may be spared.

Kyle Kanos

@dmckee ctrl+h

ACuriousMind

@ChrisWhite I'm not sure if that's a joke or not. And I'm not sure I want to know

user54412

:s/

Kyle Kanos

2:29 AM

This is a far more interesting comment:

I must congratulate you for not having to clean the toilet once for three full years. — Buhb 6 hours ago

dmckee

@KyleKanos That's for getting help.

Kyle Kanos

@dmckee That's F1

dmckee

There's no f1 on a vt220, man! What are you gabbing on about?

Kyle Kanos

Yes there is:

First grey one on the left

And yes, I had to Google it to find out what a VT220 was

I'm old, but not that old to know computer models from the late 80's.

dmckee

Caught me out. I never used one. I did use several varieties of dumb-terms, but had a real computer before the places I used them got upgraded to 220s.

Kyle Kanos

2:33 AM

Whoa....I got a chat spam flag

Never seen one of those before

I didn't even know it existed

What more don't I know!?

dmckee

@KyleKanos It's not actually a computer. It's just a keyboard and screen with enough smarts behind it to talk to a computer.

user54412

yeah -- welcome to the 10k club -- we'll explain more at the secret initiation ritual

dmckee

You used it to run a session on a multiuser box somewhere in a room you couldn't get to.

ACuriousMind

@KyleKanos What on earth is it? Did it tell you to shut up for a while or what?

user54412

those flags are incredibly rare by the way, and they usually get handled very swiftly -- every 10k user in chat across the network sees them

Kyle Kanos

2:35 AM

Someone dropped the F-bomb somewhere

I just saw the blue circle and was like, "Well, Neo didn't take that one, so lemme see what's up"

Physics Meta

3:49 AM

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Q: Burninate the "planet" tag

While editing this question, I noticed that we have a tag for planet as well as one for planets. A slightly deeper than superficial look indicates that planet is apparently a synonym of planets--it appears it was used once and then later linked to planets. Since it seems completely unnecessary, ...

overactor

8:29 AM

I asked quite a physics heavy question on world building and could use the insight of some people familiar with relativity, quantum physics, the standard model and some other pop science buzzwords:

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Q: Can I keep our universe, but without the speed limit (of light)?

It seems like nothing can move faster than light and this is quite bothersome for interstellar travel. It takes decades in the best case to get anywhere interesting in our little Milkyway (Many thousands of years to travel an appreciable distance within it) and unless we find some loopholes trave...

reality-check physics astronomy

David Z

9:48 AM

@overactor ooh, nice, I might have something to offer

overactor

@DavidZ Nice, I'm looking forward to it

ACuriousMind

1:10 PM

Um...this answer just appeared in the LQ queue. An answer with 0/-2 votes, a 350 bounty and a LQ flag. What the heck is going on here?

David Z

@ACuriousMind weirdness. Leave that one for the mods.

"weirdness" as in I don't know what's going on, but we're looking into it... nothing top-secret or such

Pulsar

Well, this is ... interesting: physics.stackexchange.com/questions/144967/…. It starts as a normal question, and then it gets weirder and weirder :-)

ACuriousMind

1:58 PM

@Pulsar Is there a button send help to OP somewhere? That post reminds me a bit of those jokes where "Help I'm trapped in a X factory" is found wholly out of context on an instance of X.

Pulsar

2:18 PM

@ACuriousMind A missing feature, worthy of a meta post :-) I'm surprised there's no Mental Health SE site.

ACuriousMind

@Pulsar In principle, a part of that is covered by Cognitive Sciences, as psychology and psychiatry are on-topic there.

Pulsar

@ACuriousMind Do they have a 'please-help-me' tag?

ACuriousMind

That's why I said "part of that". If you seek medical help, whether bodily or mentally, on the internet, you're doing it very wrong. I hope they do not "help" people there, diagnosing over the internet is a bad idea.

imakesmalltalk

Look at poor guy's profile info : physics.stackexchange.com/users/63638/william-david-pope

Pulsar

My goodness. He also has a profile on Worldbuilding SE. Very fitting.

Kyle Kanos

2:43 PM

@Pulsar well I fixed it

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Q: Optimize locations of vertices and edge length using physics without simulation

I have a directed graph with set of vertices and edges. Each vertices don't have a position coordinate to be displayed on 2D computer screen. I want to add unique position coordinate to each vertices that they won't show up all crowded and overlapping each other in one spot on the 2D screen (as b...

computational-physics

Seems like an interesting question, but doesn't appear to largely be based on physics, it's simply about spacing a directed graph on a display.

Nick

11:51 PM

      B    azinga

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