The h Bar

Slereah

21:04

one thing i need to get is some crocodile clips and a generator

it would help to test on pins

Anonymous

@Slereah Still working on the Arduino?

Slereah

yeah

Almost done

I just need to wire some LEDs to blink Christmas colors

But it's a bit tricky

Lots of tiny wires around tiny leads

Anonymous

If you have a relay you could add some cool color-changing sound-making light bulbs

Slereah

Well i mean it's a secret santa thing

And the party's tomorrow

No time for fancy

Anonymous

What's secret santa?

Anonymous

21:07

I don't know

Anonymous

Secret Santa

Secret Santa is a Western Christmas tradition in which members of a group or community are randomly assigned a person to whom they give a gift. The identity of the gift giver is a secret not to be revealed. Deriving from the Christian tradition, the ritual is known as Secret Santa in the United States and the United Kingdom; as Kris Kringel or Kris Kindle (Christkindl) in Ireland; as Wichteln, Secret Santa, Kris Kringle, Chris Kindle (Christkindl) or Engerl-Bengerl in parts of Austria; as Secret Santa or Kris Kringle in Canada and Australia; as Secret Santa, Kris Kringle, or Monito-monita in the...

Anonymous

Ah

CooperCape

Names in a hat --> Pick a name --> Buy present for that name --> Bring in anon

ACuriousMind

@Blue Everyone gets the name of someone else attending the party and has to give them a present, typically with a limit on cost

Slereah

Yeah

$10 here

Which I think the arduino is fairly cheap

Anonymous

21:08

@ACuriousMind Oh, nice! Isn't 20th too early for the party? Christmas is on 25th!

Slereah

But damn the man hours

Well it's an office thing

I'm not going to work on Christmas

Anonymous

Or is it a pre-Christmas thing?

ACuriousMind

@Blue It's often for office or school Christmas parties, which will be before Christmas on account of no one being there on a holiday!

Anonymous

I get it, hehe :)

CooperCape

I'm still at school until friday...

Slereah

21:10

suxx to be you

CooperCape

(not quite christmas...)

Nah worse is mock A-level exams after 'holidays'

So after christmas day it's revision time

0celo7

@Slereah sometimes in this show you get the feeling that someone's about to beat to death

jeez

HBO sometimes takes the "dark and grimey" thing too far

Slereah

mama mia

eh it's fine

At least so far

It's no Game of Throne

then again I'm only on episode 6

0celo7

pregnant ladies: don't mock angry mobsters

it ends badly

Slereah

good advice for everyone, really

0celo7

21:16

the mob's internal justice system is a mystery

I don't know if this guy is gonna get in trouble for this

lmao

yeah their sense of morality is completely insane

Mozibur Ullah

cosa nostra = our thing...

Slereah

21:39

Highway to the danger zoooone

I hope that priest gets wacked

What a bore

Cows

@vzn well the short story is I'm building a recommender system, but I will fill in the details soon.

0celo7

@Slereah that's one of the story lines they kind of forget about

Slereah

Good

Balarka Sen

what are you two even watching

it sounds like thug life

Slereah

The Sopranos

It is like the thug life except more spaghettis

ritz-btr.ru/indexall.html

there's a fansite for Walter Ritz

What the hell

0celo7

21:43

theres an insane amount of spaghetti in the show

Slereah

I probably couldn't join the mob because sometimes I put ketchup in my spaghettis

That's probably a cardinal sin

Man gotta finish that bloody circuit for tomorrow

Only 5 LEDs left to wire

I hope he appreciates the gift

Sir Cumference

22:05

@0celo7 How have you not gotten a hat yet?

0celo7

@SirCumference How do I get hats?

enumaris

by being awesome

0celo7

I'm not awesome

so that explains it

@Slereah

Slereah

rude

0celo7

for a hollandaise, what's the butter to egg ratio

I've seen anywhere from 1 egg per stick of butter to 4 eggs per stick

skullpatrol

22:18

(removed)

Slereah

dunno

0celo7

@Slereah you're French

don't the French drink that stuff?

Slereah

You're thinking of wine

skullpatrol

and champagne

0celo7

I figured out how to make Viennese coffee

coffee + egg yolk and honey

I could drink enough of that stuff for a heart attack

skullpatrol

22:21

make your own eggnog

Sir Cumference

@0celo7 Vote on a post within the next hour or so

0celo7

@SirCumference apparently I opted out of hats

Sir Cumference

@0celo7 uh oh

0celo7

let's downvote one of your posts

Sir Cumference

7

A: Can users opt back in to the Winter Bash after clicking "I hate hats"?

Yes, you can opt in again using the same link (because the snowflake doesn't go away when you opt out), and you retain the hats. (source: just tried it) What happens if a user meets the requirements for a hat while opted out? As confirmed by balpha in the comment below, opting out of hats ...

0celo7

22:26

it didn't work

I upvoted and downvoted something

Sir Cumference

Did you opt back in?

0celo7

@SirCumference yes

Sir Cumference

@0celo7 Hats take a few mins to arrive, like badges do

0celo7

ok

ACuriousMind

@0celo7 Ah, I don't think that's reversible if you clicked on "I hate hats" :P

0celo7

22:29

@ACuriousMind Well I do hate hats, but I didn't know it would disable them :P

Slereah

"That's nothing but a racket for the jews!"

Oh granny

0celo7

the granny is my soul animal (antisemitism aside)

@SirCumference a Hanukkah hat

wonderful

skullpatrol

so now I'm a granny?

0celo7

I'm very Muslim

skullpatrol

granny = old woman

Sir Cumference

22:34

@ACuriousMind I tried it and the snowflake button is still there, giving you an option to click "I LOVE HATS". It also turns out that any hats you would've received while opted out are granted to you when you opt in

So that's nice, they only don't show the hats, rather than actually disabling them

0celo7

the button is just for show

it should go nuclear and delete the account

"I hate hats"

"Well we hate you too. Bye!"

skullpatrol

Hate destroys everything

Mozibur Ullah

I hate hate. That should destroy hate.

skullpatrol

It consumes the hater.

Balarka Sen

@0celo7 I protest your alt-rock opinions by wearing my furriest communist hate

0celo7

22:40

are you a furry?

Balarka Sen

I am FURYious

Mozibur Ullah

Is Pink Floyd alt-rock?

Or Prog rock?

Balarka Sen

No, the answer's Neutral Milk Hotel

That's the only band ever

It covers all genres

of music

But yeah Pink Floyd is progressive psychedelic

0celo7

^ actual pic of skull petrol

skullpatrol

>8(

Balarka Sen

22:46

I buy it

0celo7

link

@Slereah tony seems like a nice guy

Slereah

RIP @skullpatrol

Balarka Sen

you will be missed probably

0celo7

"make him disappear, or make nice; you've only got two choices"

this is how I deal with life problems too

Mozibur Ullah

glad to get the taxonomy sorted out...

I'm flying in an aeroplane over the sea.

skullpatrol

22:53

...it's more like a pecking order :P

to where?

Mozibur Ullah

To a flash of a dream in a stream.

skullpatrol

Is that the lyrics of a song?

Mozibur Ullah

yup.

skullpatrol

yeah, sounds too polished

Mozibur Ullah

There are ghosts all around.

He's got the virtual world figured.

Slereah

22:57

phew

All LEDs wired

0celo7

@Slereah pic?

Slereah

Now to wire them to some power

not too pretty inside*

0celo7

nice clock Ahmed

Balarka Sen

lmao

skullpatrol

How long did that take?

0celo7

23:00

I should probably work on my thesis

Slereah

@skullpatrol Started friday night

0celo7

gotta make some covfefe

@BalarkaSen I've got a hankering for heroin

is it any good?

Balarka Sen

inject some morphine down

it's good

0celo7

@BalarkaSen ok I'm gonna go to the trailer park

Balarka Sen

I was joking. Don't do drugs

Do hugs instead

Slereah

23:06

I should buy a spool of wire

Balarka Sen

Drugs and for thugs

Slereah

Cutting jump wires for this is a bit wasteful

Balarka Sen

Don't carry them around your trugs

Mozibur Ullah

Drugs don't work - song by the Verve.

Balarka Sen

i was spitting some Hopsin bars

skullpatrol

23:08

0celo7

@Slereah I wonder how much of the culture here is fiction

Slereah

culture of what

0celo7

italians

the anti-blackness

skullpatrol

a lot

take it from a granny who's been around

Slereah

are you a granny now

skullpatrol

23:15

Balarka Sen

disturbing imagery

0celo7

dear god

Slereah

Highly professional soldering

0celo7

top tier engineering

GPhys

Currently dealing with some serious administrative baloney right now

Balarka Sen

23:17

why are you even making this anyway

GPhys

Physics department trying to screw me!

Slereah

@BalarkaSen Just an idea I had

Probably not the best idea

skullpatrol

gift

Slereah

Next time I'll just tell them to fuck off with secret santa

Balarka Sen

actually i like your idea

it's anticapitalist

Slereah

23:19

Well I mean there is a arduino inside

Balarka Sen

I support you with all my will and red flag

Slereah

Which is the actual gift

Balarka Sen

By the power of anime and Stalin

you will finish it

soon

0celo7

@GPhys I'm gonna get a shitstorm of that stuff next semester

skullpatrol

@BalarkaSen yeah, and they're only one dollar bills!

GPhys

23:22

It got serious enough that they stopped responding to my questions and that they will need to discuss things with the director of graduate studies to make a verdict

:thinking:

Balarka Sen

Yikes

What happened?

Slereah

Beep 4

►

All done

Balarka Sen

That's actually pretty good

Slereah

The lone LED I'll print some clipart Reindeer to put for the nose

Well, I'll try

Dunno if I have the room

GPhys

@BalarkaSen well hopefully what happened is they realized they did not quite do their due diligence before notarizing to the graduate college a notice and ultimatum that I'm on academic probation

Slereah

23:35

a bit of cables

GPhys

it's not like the PhD students are random undergrads. Could they not have emailed me? Or come to my office in the department right below theirs?

Balarka Sen

@GPhys wait, I'm not sure I understand. They've put you on academic probation?

GPhys

I had a medical emergency during final exams, and was taken to the ER, missing a final. I arranged with the professor to take it next year, and was given an "incomplete" as the grade for the class in the meantime.

somehow they managed to start trying to kick me out of the PhD program without even attempting to look into why I had an incomplete

Balarka Sen

Oh

That's horrible

0celo7

@GPhys what is it with you and health

ooolb

23:40

@Slereah love it

0celo7

@GPhys do you have some chronic illness?

GPhys

It was one time, and it was a chronic illness in the sense that it lasted several months

ultimately ending up with sepsis during finals week

0celo7

@GPhys ah, this was from lasy year?

GPhys

yeah

0celo7

and now it's coming back administratively?

GPhys

23:42

right

0celo7

gotcha

Balarka Sen

This sucks

ooolb

my friend told me schools in the US are like this

Balarka Sen

What's the authority's standpoint about it?

bolbteppa

@Slereah that's incredible

0celo7

23:43

@GPhys ...random undergrads? What is with this attitude that undergrads are turds and deserve worse than turds?

ooolb

i.e. don't care about students health when it comes to missing assignments or exams

GPhys

@0celo7 undergrads are turds and deserve worse than turds

0celo7

what is wrong with you

ooolb

wot

bolbteppa

I want to make a Christmas jingle thing from scratch

Slereah

23:53

There's the Reindeer

0celo7

loooooooooooool

+1

why "power" and "volume" and not the equivalent in Francois?

Slereah

I'm a man of the world

Also french for volume is volume

Balarka Sen

Slereah be like tfw you make lo fi hip hop

He basically made his Christmas mixtape

Slereah

I should probably do it sooner than 5 days in advance next time

Cutting it a bit close

The office dinner is tomorrow night

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