« first day (2283 days earlier)      last day (2632 days later) » 

8:05 PM
@AccidentalFourierTransform Buy me a record clamp please
My Klaus Wunderlich record is a bit warped
 
how much does that cost?
(out of curiosity, of course. Im not buying yo shit, youre not my sugar baby (yet))
 
Let me see in spain
Can't find it on spain amazon
Lol
 
80 bucks. I have spent less on food this year.
 
Yeah, well, I chose an expensive one for the sake of it :P
For reference
 
for what? your gonna be listening to taylor swift anyway
 
@BernardoMeurer What speakers did you get?
 
@JohnRennie The store owner pushed me to get B&W 686 S2, so I trusted him and got them, he gave me a sweet discount. I'm burning them in
Finding the highs too fatiguing
 
Grrrrr! There is no notational convention I loathe more than writing $\Delta$ for $\nabla^2$!
 
dude, youre really into Talking Heads and Radiohead
 
@AccidentalFourierTransform Looking at my wishlist?
 
8:15 PM
The #%@& thing is a second order operator and it should look like it!
 
Yes, my two favourite bands
 
B&W are good! I have a pair of DM601s that I use occasionally.
 
@JohnRennie The build quality is amazing, that I can praise
 
What did they cost?
 
I payed ~400 € with banana-ended cabling
 
8:18 PM
TH is ok-ish I guess. Not a big fan though
 
It was too good of a price, I have no more money now :)
 
I like Ok computer and In rainbows
the rest are meh
 
Their new album is great
 
no its not haha
 
Meh, I liked it a lot
 
8:19 PM
@JohnRennie I saw something about getting yourself a present in the starboard the other day
was it your birthday or something?
 
@AccidentalFourierTransform I did a favour for a friends company, and in return his company have bought me a new laptop.
In fact it has just turned up this afternoon.
 
oh, so no birthday then
 
No, sadly not. But birthdays aren't such a big deal after the first 50 of them :-)
 
lol
theyre always something to be happy for
 
@JohnRennie I'll give them a longer try and see my conclusions
 
8:22 PM
But I cannot get Windows 7 to install on this blasted laptop. I'm trying to install from USB and it needs USB3 drivers but I cannot get them to work.
 
@JohnRennie Hmm
get a USB DVD drive
 
use a floppy disk
 
obe
hiii
 
or, 2000 of them
 
@BernardoMeurer the problem is that W7 doesn't have native drivers for USB3. So the laptop boots off the USB key just fine then starts the install and stops claiming it can't read the source files.
The solution is normally to integrate the USB3 drivers into the install image, which is generally straightforward. But I cannot get it to work.
 
obe
8:26 PM
@JohnRennie I used to get around 70mb/s when I first got my computer but now I get like 30. Will changing my wifi card fix this? changing to ssd already made it a lot better but not as good as before.
 
The laptop does have a DVD drive, but I don't have any blank dual layer DVDs to create a DVD install disk. I'll have to go out and buy some blank DVDs tomorrow I guess.
 
Fuck me my talking heads is skipping
 
@obe If the WiFi card was working at 70Mbps before then I doubt there's a problem with the card. You might need to mess around with the settings. For 70Mbps you need the higher 5GHz speed WiFi protocol (can't remember what that's called).
 
Wi-Fi protocol names are bullshit, not even I can remember them
abcdefg
ffs
 
802.11ac
 
obe
8:30 PM
that sounds familiar but how do I get the higher speed protocol?
is it a setting or does it have to do with my router?
 
@BernardoMeurer how you like speakers to sound can be a very personal thing, and to some extent it's what you're used to. I have yet to find speakers that i like as much as my HB2s, but then I've been listening to them for 30 years :-)
The B&Ms may simply sound different to what you're used to.
The reviews all say they have a sweet treble, so it's odd you think it's too trebly.
@obe I assume your router hasn't changed ...
 
@JohnRennie I think maybe it's burn in too, I have had them on for less than 7h
@obe You need to download more ram
 
With my router I see two different networks - one at 2.4GHz and one at 5GHz and I have to make sure I choose the faster one.
@BernardoMeurer Hmm, IME burning in doesn't make that much difference. I know all the hifi nerds claim it does but that isn't my experience.
 
@obe delete System32
 
@JohnRennie I don't have nearly the same experience as you, but on my headphones I have a firm belief it made a difference. We'll see about these ones, I'd like to test them for at least 3 days before making a decision
 
8:34 PM
Anyway I'm off to bed. While I'm gone please try not to discuss matters conjugal with any 14 year old girls.
 
@BernardoMeurer the listening notes strike me as a load of bol .. err balderdash! :-)
 
@JohnRennie He does seem to picky/harsh
The vocals are forward, but it's not offputting
 
Anyway, goodnight all.
 
8:39 PM
@JohnRennie Goodnight!
Let it be know, Sire Records makes some cheap ass pressings
 
Let it be know, I think I'm gonna buy several pairs of socks because I don't want to pick up the ones that have accumulated under my bed
 
I have a dinner scheduled now
But I don't want to leave my music
 
obe
@JohnRennie OH WOW
so thats what that random 5G network is
im connected to the wrong one
then
 
 
2 hours later…
obe
10:20 PM
I'm getting 130Mb/s now.
from 35.
 
10:32 PM
@BernardoMeurer Even people who get it intellectually sometimes have trouble grasping the full meaning until they have at least watched someone they care about dealing with a chronic condition for a while.
My better half has a couple of chronic conditions and though neither one is life destroying they add a considerable planning load to our day-to-day affairs as well as occasional days when ordinary life just stops and everything goes into dealing-with-crisis mode.
 
11:10 PM
@dmckee What I have doesn't impair much, but it does limit me, I can't really do everything that my friends do, like running together or whatever.
And on the eventual day where my foot feels like it's about to explode it's tough
 
vzn
11:33 PM
@rob the CHSH analysis is very subtle, think more than anyone realizes. it seems to highly hinge on detector efficiency. the theory seems to assume perfect efficiency but most/ many bell experiments have low efficiency. am aware there are claims "the efficiency loophole is closed" but am not so sure about that. why did it take so long to close it? (decades?) think somethings likely going on here... bell himself did not seem to ever consider detector efficiency that much...
 
@vzn It is fascinating to think that someone in hbar who is not a Bell-inequality expert and as far as I know not even a physicist, thinks they have discovered a deep nature of the CHSH experiments that literally "nobody" has previously perceived. That would be a sign of absolute brilliance.
Particularly to think that those researchers who pain over the experiments have not considered detector efficiency... those researchers must be a lot dumber and lazier than I would ever have thought.
@BernardoMeurer Really? That's odd because I feel that rather often when I talk to Europeans they're making some kind of racist comments about folks from other countries. Interestingly, often within the same conversation they bemoan how racist America is...
@vzn "The theory seems to assume perfect efficiency..." <-- False.
Perhaps one ought to actually read the theory one spends so much time criticizing?
3
 
vzn
@DanielSank sigh obviously some of the best physicists in the world have worked on the problem, and furthermore think its a shame that bell never came near a nobel prize. in serious science there is room for questioning/ revisiting prior analysis in detail.
@DanielSank what "criticism"? its not fair to make up stuff & attribute it to me. :(
 
@DanielSank Uh...what has the occurence of "racist" (I suspect you mean the stereotyping of other European countries here, right?) comments in individual conversations to do with people being "happy and free" (putting aside that Bernardo was likely using hyperbole there :P)?
 
vzn
@DanielSank there is a mass/ mtn of material on the subj and some takes into acct detector efficiency and some doesnt. bells earliest writing doesnt. dont see it a lot in later writing either.
 
@ACuriousMind No hyperbole, Europe is literally a tampon ad
 
11:48 PM
Brazil must have very weird tampon ads.
 
Eventually someone will say "Cut! Good shooting today"
 
@vzn You keep saying you think QM is wrong and (weak measurement / ancient theories known to be wrong) will prove it. I think you should perhaps actually go study these topics before continuing to produce what are, to experts in the field, obviously incorrect statements.
 
@ACuriousMind We do
 
vzn
@DanielSank sigh, (again!) have never said it is wrong, quite to the contrary.
 
@ACuriousMind Actually, I was thinking more about Europeans who talk about refugees and immigrants like dogs.
@vzn Listen to me, please. It is not interesting to look at old research that everyone knows is incomplete, and talk about the fact that it's incomplete.
 
vzn
11:50 PM
@DanielSank rob raised CHSH and am agreeing with him in part.
 
Well all know that Bell's original theorem doesn't talk about detector efficiency. Nobody cares, because we've moved on and have talked about detector efficiency.
@ACuriousMind Oh, and also think it's great to immigrate to the US and still talk trash about immigrants to their home countries and even other immigrants to the US.
It's fascinating how often that happens.
Absolutely incredible.
 
vzn
@DanielSank a key problem is that detector efficiency seems to be related to (or highly intertwined/ tightly coupled with) fair sampling...
 
@DanielSank Don't you feel judgmental people are found in every country of the world ? (I'm not sure any statistical data is there to back it up) It doesn't seem right to associate an entire continent with "they're making some kind of racist comments about folks from other countries" and "talk trash about immigrants to their home countries"...I'm pretty sure I've heard US citizens talking trash about immigrants from Mexico and Middle East too.
 
@DanielSank Are you perhaps overgeneralizing your encounters with an unfortunate subset of Europeans there? :P
 
@anonymous Yes. Of course there are judgemental people everywhere. Interestingly, Europe likes to think that it is somehow more happy-friendly than the US, which I think is ridiculous.
@ACuriousMind Perhaps, although I typically expect scientists to be more... reasonable than the general public.
Maybe that's silly.
 
11:55 PM
@DanielSank I feel you are again stereotyping when you say "Europe likes to think that it is somehow more happy-friendly than the US".
 
@anonymous It's my impression.
 
Europeans don't like Americans, that is true
 
@DanielSank To use inner-European stereotypes, I think no Scandinavian or German has ever thought of themselves as "friendly" ;)
 
With somewhat high frequency, discussions with European scientists turn toward social criticism of the US. I mean come on, remember that discussion with @Danu and @ACuriousMind (I think) about worker's rights?
 
@DanielSank Well, maybe you should be a bit careful when you stereotype nearly 1/4 th of the world population.
 
11:57 PM
@Danu was comfortable telling me how f----- up the US worker's rights are, but didn't even know that we're guaranteed overtime pay.
@anonymous Perhaps, although I think it's pretty obvious that I'm speaking to my own experience.
Should I prepend my messages with "IMHO"?
 
For those who have talked with me I have a fairly American accent, for reference Daniel's father in law almost believed me when I said I was from Maine (lol). Once Nika invited some Slovenian friends over, I went to open the door to them, said hello and all, this 6' tall huge Yugoslavian dude looks at me and says "Are you fucking American?"
Told him I was Canadian, lol
 
2 mins ago, by Bernardo Meurer
Europeans don't like Americans, that is true
Care to comment on that, @anonymous?
Or would it not fit your inner narrative to notice that a Brazilian just made a generalization about Europeans too? :-)
Wow, I'm being a total jerk.
Sorry.
 
I'm a minority, nothing I do is wrong or can be criticised
 
^ Truth
 
A liberal taught me
 
11:59 PM
@DanielSank Ah, yes; that's because there is a fundamental difference in the political "center" between American and European politics. I fully believe that you frequently get into social and political discussions with (possibly quite ignorant) Europeans of all sorts.
 

« first day (2283 days earlier)      last day (2632 days later) »