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@duzzy Nice! Will it be webcast too?
I'm not sure. I'll take a look.
@TildalWave man, i keep missing this...
good :)
@TildalWave It will not be webcast.
00:32
If you wrote a Learning system, and had a field in enrollment for a course being available or not. And your UI says Available: Yes/No radio buttons.
What underlying value would you probably store in the DB?
I tried false, 0, no already trying to make it unavailable.
Am I forgetting an obvious no equivalent
@TildalWave Dang I missed it :/
So I got all the ingredients to make a crockpot roast. Meat, carrots, potatoes, garlic, celery, etc.. If I prepare it all tonight can I refrigerate it until tomorrow morning?
I want to let it cook for 6-8 hours
6-8 hours? Isn't that a bit excessive? It'll fall apart
you can leave it in the fridge in a "marinade" of everything it'll cook in, sure
@geoffc nein
@TildalWave I am making 3 crock pots of meat/potatoes/beans on Friday, gonna let it run 26 hours./
00:42
@duzzy Good one! That would be very likely in SAP!
you guys using solar cookers? :)
@BrianLynch Which work really well at night!
Huehuehue
moonlight... fresnel lens...
@DavidFreitag gotcha, it's not something I use
00:45
@BrianLynch You'd be better off with one of those rechargeable crank flashlights
lol or just rubbing it with your hands
@TildalWave I no cook good, me learn
@duzzy FALSE did not work either.
@DavidFreitag well if the recipe says 8 hours then use that
N? Maybe Y/N? HOw stupid a DB could they be?
00:46
@TildalWave I just need to know whether it's a good idea to let everything sit all prepared in the fridge overnight. I'll probably just try to get up a little earlier than normal...
@geoffc -1?
@geoffc NA?
@TildalWave Not bad... Will try that after N.
What if they just leave it blank for no?
null?
what do you use for "didn't answer" then?
00:48
@TildalWave "no"
I dunno. :P
Null is always hard in SOAP. xsi:null usually.
@duzzy so, statistically speaking, and by your logic, any person that didn't attend managed to answer 40% of the questions correctly? :)
Sounds good to me.
Ok, I am calling this unpossible.
I didn't attend, and 40 is better than 0.
00:51
is this some exam question you are trying to answer or something?
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@BrianLynch Writing a SOAP integration to Blackboard LMS via IMS Global's LIS 2.0 Final spec. Which is the crappiest spec I have ever worked with.
@geoffc Oh dear, you poor, poor person...
gotcha, you are trying to find an appropriate default value?
With no access to the underlying DB. It is hosted BB. So I have no clue what the DB is storing under the covers. SOAP never defines what goes in each field, just the fields.
00:54
can't you query it?
Oh, did I mention that because the Read functionality in the LIS 2.0 spec is optional, NO ONE implemented it.
so you have to reverse engineer it by trying different options and seeing if it accepts them?
So no queries. Which is literally madness.
tried SQL inject vulnerability already?
what about NaN
00:54
@BrianLynch Yep. Tried false, FALSE, 0, -1, N.
@TildalWave Haha,
and by "underlying" do you mean the default setting?
@BrianLynch That seems very inlikely. The UI shows Available, radio buttons Yes/No. Defaults to Yes if unspecified.
I mean, what value do I need to send in, to register in the DB a value, so that the UI would show No.
I don't really do programming, I just know how to code lol
and I guess you don't care about "yes" because it is default anyway?
@BrianLynch "I don't like to be drunk, I just like drinking"
No worries. I am almost complete, this one feature came up yesterday with go live in a week.
@BrianLynch True. But I assume that once I find out what the proper No value is, yes will be obvious. :)
00:56
ah gotcha
And the BB folk ain't talking.
What is nice, is this is a marketable integration. :) We have one for Workday that we sell.
did you try n?
or just N?
narp?
Did not try n.
Does that seem very likely to you?
I would have assumed it is enumerated or something
00:59
@geoffc did you check what values the input assigns?
@TildalWave What do you mean?
it uses web forms, right?
@TildalWave Some web UI, true.
F12, see what values are for the radio buttons or whatever the form uses to select yes or no
aren't radio buttons generally allowed to have multiple choices?
01:01
@TildalWave It's possible the SOAP data isn't even directly linked to the radio buttons though
as in maybe you need to specify more than just a single value somehow?
@DavidFreitag Very true. Totally different implementations, through a specific filter API. But that is closer.
sure, it can be different
@geoffc If you're using chrome you can set breakpoints and monitor the values as they come in
of firefox ... and probably all the major browsers have dev tools by now, no?
If that Keck lecture kiss.caltech.edu/new_website/lectures/Blincow_Lecture_2016.html has a live feed, I can't find it (nothing on their YouTube channel youtube.com/user/KISSCaltech)
01:08
Tried false and it did not work. First try.
@DavidFreitag Found it in the Debugger, looking at it, thanks, not a bad idea to look at.
true/false
how are you trying these values?
isn't there a "repost with edited request" option in Chrome?
I think there is
FF has "edit and resend"
@TildalWave ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
heh cute
01:21
@TildalWave (•◡•)
 
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Marcmac 303 on the West Coast got JRTI painted on the deck! No mind transfer. It is official.
 
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@DavidFreitag grats, you win the daily nurd award! :D
 
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14:32
@TildalWave I think I can edit this question, to be a much better question. space.stackexchange.com/questions/13518/…
But it will require a total re-write. Should I?
14:48
@Hohmannfan LOL, sorry, can't help you there... Limited access...
15:35
@TildalWave That.... That means a lot coming from you.
16:00
@TildalWave Possible CRS-2 winner annoucement, today, 4PM EST NASA TV
Big announcement 4pm today at @NASA_Johnson on future commercial cargo launches to @space_station - watch live at http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv
16:13
kim holder has added an event to this room's schedule.
shoot, got the time wrong, hang on...
kim holder has removed an event from this room's schedule.
kim holder has added an event to this room's schedule.
^ Announcement on future of commercial resupply launches to the International Space Station, 4pm EST, 1 pm PST. More info: nasa.gov/press-release/…, webcast on NASA TV nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv
took me a while to find where i could add that. gotta scroll all the way down to the bottom, which takes a while because somebody is especially thorough about adding lots of events that go well into the future
:D
16:47
@geoffc would it still match the answer it got?
@DavidFreitag did you remember to turn your crock-pot on? not a euphemism!! ;D
@geoffc cool, will schedule
@TildalWave Yeah I did. When I took it out of the fridge the gravy was congealed to the consistency of gelatin.
@TildalWave already done
@DavidFreitag gravy-pops for everybody :D
@kimholder OMG! Nice
I just have to add it to the community bulletin then
done, thanks @kim
It's surprising how difficult it is to maneuver 2kg of meat slathered in oil when you don't have a pair of tongs.
oh yes be careful with that
if you have two ice picks you could use that
(those that look like forks)
17:11
which suggests you could also just use forks...
ya know, if i had a degree in electrical engineering, i think i'd make me my own sous vide setup. yummmm
 
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18:41
@geoffc Did you see the discussion over US still using Soyuz after commercial crew?
TL;DR is both astronauts and cosmonauts will ride on all crew launches to the ISS
Hey all - seen a couple of things on twitter about SpaceX possibly firing the landed F9 stage later today, is there any/can we expect any firm information anywhere?
hey @JamesThorpe
@JamesThorpe Elon Musk's Twitter account?
@JamesThorpe the reddit spacex thread has a reference to that, quoting Chris Bergen of SpaceFlightNow
sorry, heh, Chris Bergen of NASASpaceFlight
ah yes there are the usual SpaceX stalkers loitering on the NSF Forum and might do all kinds of crazy stunts to get info a bit sooner :)
@kimholder I didn't even notice it, I just auto-corrected it as I read it LOL
ChrisB tweet: 'Falcon 9 OG2 S1 on SLC-40's pad: Looking to fire up mid-afternoon (Note: T-0s for Static Fires tend to be only "when they are ready")'
18:53
@JamesThorpe Afternoon is official time window. No more accurate than that.
BTW I meant "stalkers", "loitering" and "crazy stunts" with all of my approval and praise :D
@TildalWave Yes, that is not surprising. And actually a reaonable point. If crew are killed, and a vehicle is lost, and there are three crew and three seats left, they are taking them. A Soyuz landing without a custom seat liner is going to hurt a lot, but should not be fatal.
Lots of amusing discussion around whether the LC-40 TEL is in use. Answer - Yes, because the launch hold down clamps are attached to the base of the TEL, but the upper arm of th eTEL grasps the second stage, which is not there on Orb-2 first stage. The TEL is just fully down on the ground and a crane is holding the top in place.
@kimholder Yeah that sounds like the one I saw earlier - so it's pretty much just wait and see :)
19:12
The interesting question is, what was wrong at LC-39A that they had to move it to LC-40 and sneak it in before SES-9 needs the pad.
@geoffc No, it's impossible to land more than 3 in a Soyuz as it's outfitted now. And that likely won't change even with future upgrades. But they can send another one up without crew.
Actually I'm not sure I get your comment
@TildalWave I did not mean more than 3, agreed, not possible.
Rather, if a crew of 7, 3 launched on Soyuz, 4 launched on Dragon and something happens to the Dragon. But say some of the crew is killed as well. So only 3 crew left. But none of them launched on Soyuz. Ok, contrived case, but the ability to know how to land in a Soyuz or Dragon could be important.
Landing in a Soyuz without the custom seat liner meant for your back is probably going to be very painful.
But hopefully not fatal.
@geoffc they would just launch up another one
@TildalWave Assume no time. Contrived case, as stated.
vehicle
@geoffc evacuate, don't deorbit
preferably compartmental lockdown
19:21
@TildalWave In a Soyuz, distinction without a difference?
Well if the ISS has issues and you need to get into the Soyuz, you are probably going home in it. So what difference does it make anyway?
:)
@geoffc Soyuz can take more than 3 to make distance to the station and remain in orbit for a couple of days at least
with orbital module it's supposed to keep crew of 3 for at least 6 days or something like that
they're supposed to be able to dock with each other no? I mean, it's how Mir and Zarya (ISS) started
so you send one more vehicle up, but it docks with Soyuz instead of ISS
Here's a question ... will Dragon and CST-100 (and Orion) be able to dock with a Soyuz? We did it with Apollo-Soyuz in mid 70's, are we capable of doing that now?
also, there's no good reason that ISS Russian and US segments couldn't detach, is there?
@TildalWave Not without an ASTP style adapter.
Modified for LIDS/NDS adapter standard on the US side.
Though, PMA-1 is used to connect CBM to a Russia port so maybe they can.
@TildalWave If you detached them, very little good things would follow.
19:44
@geoffc but those are made available at all launch sites, right?? (I'm hoping for some foresight here)
@geoffc sure, station's days are numbered then, but it would buy the crew months, not hours
ideally, you'd detach the breached segment, keep the panels and Node 1, is that possible?
20:14
@TildalWave Russian section provides reboost and basic life support. Maybe if you kept Russian side, node 1, and ditched US lab, ESA, JAXA but it seems unlikely those would be the issue. Attitude control via thrusters is Russian sidem via Gyros is on the truss I think.
@TildalWave ASTP adapter was huge. Doubt more than 2 were ever built.
For relative scale. That is a pretty big docking adapter, when you consider the size of Apollo and Soyuz.,
yeah I've seen photos of it, or at least the mockup don't recall... I didn't mean to use the actual ASTP adapter, I meant if we're capable of doing what we've done 40 years ago
in other words, since NDS is also known as iLIDS where i stands for international, is it actually international, or is that just another of those meaningless monikers
20:51
Announcement on future of commercial resupply launches to the ISS - ustream.tv/nasahdtv
21:05
look like they're experiencing some technical difficulties, YouTube stream just gives errors
ah here we are
maybe we even get sound if we'll behave :))
dunno why but YouTube stream gives me errors all the time, switching the browser and from Flash to HTML5 player didn't help... USTREAM and native NASA TV player work OK
everybody but ula
Where did you hear that? Was it mentioned during the presser already? I missed some of it because bloody YouTube :))
(which now dares to work OK just so I look like an idiot LOL)
i was partly distracted too, but the 2nd guy listed orbital atk, sierra nevada, and spacex
he did not mention ula.
there you go - sierra nevada, orbital atk, spacex
or wait, was ula not even in this round already?
21:22
gotcha, guess ULA was too expensive ... how many did actually compete? The "interested parties list" here procurement.jsc.nasa.gov/crs2 is rather long
according to wiki: Five companies are known to have submitted proposals to NASA: SpaceX, Orbital ATK, Boeing, Sierra Nevada, and Lockheed Martin
SNC probably made a good case for cargo landing on the runway
they made quite an effort with it publicly
honestly, I thought that it'll be Lockheed Martin and not Orbital ATK but I guess that space tug concept didn't convince NASA this time around
they deserved to get some development support. nice alternative to have.
sierra nevada, that is
from that perspective, ula companies have no lack of development funds from their many other gov't contracts
I think I now understand Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel's "Accretion of Risk" a lot better spacepolicyonline.com/news/…
mainly, that it could be a reply to NASA doing too many things at the same time and trying to assure uninterrupted service more than quality and security of fewer providers but under more scrutiny and with more dev money thrown into it
21:38
heck, maybe it even makes more sense to have ula concentrate on military launches
Why would you require ability to dispose of pressurized cargo? Does it matter that it's pressurized before it burns up, or did he mean that cargo can be disposed from the pressurized compartment (i.e. ejected)?
@TildalWave How do you get stuff to the unpressurized side? Much easier if you can walk in and tie down the bags. To get to the unpressurized side you probably need a spacewalk which is expensive.
@geoffc Yeah I know, so the other option that I mentioned. It's not "pressurized cargo" that's disposed of, it's cargo from "functional volume" (which happens to be pressurized)
does disposing of "pressurized cargo" require expendable vehicle?
@TildalWave I guess if the vehicle is recoverable, seems like a waste to return garbage. Usually you can take down much less than take up, so filling the Progress/Cygnus/ATV with crap seems like a better plan than taking it down in a Dreamchaser/Dragon/CST. So does not require it, but seems like a better option.
Also, this is how it was always done, so this is how we shall do it going forward.
Until you have so much downmass available that it does not matter,
@geoffc but he said that all vehicles are capable of disposing of pressurized cargo
21:46
Not listening, so not sure.
so do you then fly Dragon without heat shield up?
and chutes,...
or does it have two pressurized compartments, one of which it can detach to burn up?
22:25
@TildalWave The trunk is unpressurized, so they could load cargo into there. Maybe through Jaxa airlock?
Trunk is discarded to burn up when Dragon reneters.
gotcha, didn't think of that
I was having fun reading this:
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Q: A New Code License: The MIT, this time with Attribution Required

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the saga continues LOL
I think I'm gonna poke folks at the DMZ with it, see if I can get some quality snark out of it LOL

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