IRC log for #brlcad on 20080513

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06:18.20 yukonbob guesses PrezKennedy was referring to LetterRip
06:19.36 yukonbob anybody know of a mature portable super-cool programming language with excellent libraries and multi-paradigm programming? Oh wait -- found it; bye.
06:19.40 yukonbob :P
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11:14.05 starseeker_ yukonbob: Lisp?
11:47.17 archivist assembler, it can use all the other languages libraries :)
13:03.37 ``Erik scratches his head
13:04.11 ``Erik lithp is an assembler for a lisp machine, C is an assembler for a pdp/vax11, ... assembler is more a notion than a language per se :D
13:04.40 archivist hehe
13:05.25 archivist as a BSD lover did you the antique bug ``Erik http://www.newmobilecomputing.com/story/19731/The_25_Year_Old_BSD_Bug
13:09.23 poolio heh, i saw that :P
13:19.08 Miereroma do you use rsync to update the BRL-CAD web?
13:24.21 brlcad Miereroma: only for backups atm
13:27.45 Miereroma someone reported a broken page
13:28.06 Miereroma and I found the file on the server is filled partially with nonsensical words. But in the SVN it's OK
13:28.29 brlcad reported where?
13:28.31 brlcad what page?
13:28.40 Miereroma I have a strong hypothesis compressed data got corrupted on the network transmission (or because of memory error in either computers due to an alpha particle) and that generated the "speaking in toungues"
13:29.00 Miereroma tried by hand to swap few bits in a .txt.gz file and really manifests exactly like that :)
13:29.11 Miereroma brlcad: Ronja website, http://ronja.twibright.com/about.php but it's already fixed
13:29.19 Miereroma seems the CRCs are not strong enough
13:29.22 Miereroma needs more bits
13:29.45 Miereroma when we flush billions of gigabytes down the pipes every day no wonder this happens time to time
13:30.01 Miereroma One of the words it generated was "Miereroma" :)
13:30.39 brlcad ah
13:30.50 Miereroma originally was "center"
13:31.04 Miereroma but "ter" got replaced by "oma" in several places in the file
13:31.24 Miereroma like if the computer invented it's own new language and partially translated some words into it ;-)
13:31.59 Miereroma Interesting case where intelligence can actually come up from mistake. Maybe our human intelligence came the same way. Maybe we're just a mistake of the universe.
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14:40.29 CIA-21 BRL-CAD: 03bob1961 * r31072 10/brlcad/trunk/ (5 files in 3 dirs): Added mater command to libged.
14:47.06 poolio brlcad: so any thoughts on a project?
14:53.24 ``Erik yes, archivist :) and I read a fair amount, and none is too terribly suprising
14:54.11 ``Erik (alpha particle? those'll stop in a couple cm of air, or paper, they won't penetrate an ethernet wire... gamma mebbe? :D )
14:55.16 ``Erik brlcad, you talked to iraytrace yesterday? (apparently he missed lunch :> ) did you hear about his new acting position? :D
14:57.03 Miereroma ``Erik: but they come from the epoxy in the memory modules and penetrate into the chip and flip a bit
14:57.28 Miereroma I am sure BRL-CAD can raytrace alpha particle rays ;-)
14:57.57 ``Erik hehehe epoxy emits alpha particles? wonder what the half life of the stuff is, I have an awful lot laying around
14:58.42 Miereroma maybe russian chips they are surely molded into concrete instead of epoxy
14:58.55 ``Erik in soviet russia... sorry, I'll stop
14:59.50 Miereroma The Russian space shuttle buran exploded in the atmosphere
14:59.59 Miereroma Collection teams managed to recover the following debris:
15:00.10 Miereroma 15 cast iron manhole covers, various sizes and shapes
15:00.20 Miereroma One broken toilet bowl, white ceramic
15:00.34 Miereroma 3 rebar concrete window ledges
15:00.44 Miereroma 1017 pieces of bathroom tiles
15:02.41 Miereroma 30-ton above-life-size bronze statue of Lenin
15:03.22 starseeker Actually, given the limitations the Russian space program does some remarkable work
15:04.16 ``Erik <-- always been impressed by russian technology, brutally tough and effective despite poor funding and purgings of the era :/
15:04.48 Miereroma well I come from behind the Iron Curtain, and I created an optical wireless datalink from magnifying glasses and smoke pipes and rusty steel bars
15:05.18 Miereroma Am sure the Westerns couldn't do it - maximum they could order a ready-made link with a VISA card
15:05.49 ``Erik thus proving that intelligent people come from all over the world... now if only the us politicians would admit that and get their heads out of their arses
15:06.15 ``Erik I'm sure there're many westerners that COULD do it, but why bother with all that effort when I can go buy one for two hours of work?
15:06.35 Miereroma I would say the scarcity produced by the astronomical idiocy of the communist regime forced people to stimulate their brain if they wish to survive
15:07.20 Miereroma Like academy of science scientists used to build their own houses from bricks with their own hands, because they couldn't afford buying one
15:07.38 ``Erik cuba also has some impressive efforts wrt technology, a native industry that keeps 50 year old foreign vehicles on the road with no outside aid O.o
15:08.19 starseeker cool - just like certain parts of the US ;-)
15:08.31 Miereroma :)
15:08.43 Miereroma Like Hawaii?
15:08.55 ``Erik hehhe, all canadians build their own houses from brick, they stomp down the snow and cut the bricks out of it and make their houses :D *duck*
15:09.07 Miereroma ``Erik: that's eskimoes
15:09.08 ``Erik bada-tish
15:09.36 starseeker actually thinks we should be looking more seriously at using compressed earth as a building material
15:09.51 ``Erik lots of people do
15:09.53 Miereroma I think we should excavate our houses into the ground
15:09.54 ``Erik but we keep bombing them :(
15:10.04 ``Erik sod houses used to be common in the midwest
15:10.17 Miereroma you don't need to add material, plus you get thermal insulation, plus more favourable average "outside" temperature -> ecological
15:10.31 archivist compressed earth== bricks (fired clay)
15:10.51 ``Erik sun baked is good 'nuff
15:10.54 Miereroma plus, you have 3 dimensions of space instead of 2
15:10.59 ``Erik worked in the middle east for the last 6000 years
15:11.12 archivist heh not so wet there
15:11.17 ``Erik mud even works with sunbaking to make a nice insulated waterproof house
15:11.20 starseeker I think (IIRC) compressed earth uses local dirt pressed into bricks using very high pressures
15:11.22 ``Erik it used to be very wet there O.o
15:11.26 Miereroma middle east had the first civilization, 6000 BC ago
15:11.52 Miereroma and now they have just one big mess
15:11.55 ``Erik seriously, ya think a bunch of humans would move into a desert and say "gee, lets start farming here!"?
15:12.09 Miereroma ``Erik: maybe server farming?
15:12.48 ``Erik hehehehe, I'd put my server farms as close to a pole as possible to reduce a/c cost and risk of losing cooling
15:13.22 alex_joni ``Erik: also get closer to superconductibility
15:13.50 ``Erik modern IC's tend to go wonky if they get too cold, too :/
15:13.53 starseeker heh - here we go, open source + dirt blocks: http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?cat=13
15:13.53 alex_joni learns it's actually spelled: superconductivity
15:14.16 alex_joni ``Erik: not special purpose ones .. :)
15:14.22 ``Erik would rather do http://www.opensourcebeerproject.com/2007/07/15/open-source-beer-recipe-finalized/#comments
15:15.27 ``Erik special purpose IC's also don't go gimpy in cosmic radiation, so float it in an orbit that always keeps it in earths shadow, if you wanna go that route O.o :D
15:15.50 alex_joni might be a mess to find empty spots in orbit
15:17.22 starseeker looks for the plans for the press - wonder if they're using CAD...
15:17.38 ``Erik I d'no if the 'always dark/light' band is cluttered.. be close to geosyncronous, but if you're not worried about that, you could move it in a bit so it fluctuates north and south...
15:17.40 ``Erik *ponder*
15:18.08 ``Erik atmospheric drag would require more boost to keep it in orbit, tho
15:18.46 ``Erik *think* nah, I'm wrong, had the wrong frame of reference
15:19.07 ``Erik far orbit lagrange point would be where it'd have to be :/
16:14.49 louipc hmm has anyone built the latest BRL-CAD for i386?
16:25.18 brlcad louipc: I have/had, but didn't make a dist for it
16:37.50 CIA-21 BRL-CAD: 03bob1961 * r31073 10/brlcad/trunk/ (5 files in 4 dirs): Added edmater command to libged.
16:38.16 louipc brlcad: ah. Did drawing a torus work OK with that?
16:44.14 CIA-21 BRL-CAD: 03bob1961 * r31074 10/brlcad/trunk/src/libged/ (editit.c edmater.c): Added edmater command to libged.
16:55.10 brlcad louipc: er, can't say that I tried..
17:08.38 CIA-21 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r31075 10/brlcad/trunk/src/libged/edmater.c: edmater relies on editit, rmater, and wmater
17:14.18 CIA-21 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r31076 10/brlcad/trunk/ (include/ged.h src/libged/editit.c): move the editit doc to the ged.h header
17:37.04 ``Erik brlcad ignored his phone, now brlcad has no sushi
17:37.07 ``Erik :D
17:37.47 brlcad ah
17:37.51 brlcad it's over in the other room
17:38.13 brlcad i just finished eating some cheerios anyways
17:39.53 ``Erik o'sake wa sugoii ii desu ne
17:40.46 ``Erik roomaji make things look weird O.o :D
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18:06.11 yukonbob starseeker: re: Lisp -- I was being facecious w/ that little spiel -- like LetterRip, who had an interesting question, apparently answer it but didn't tell anybody, and just left...
18:06.43 yukonbob waves in
18:06.45 yukonbob hello, cadheads
18:07.08 CIA-21 BRL-CAD: 03bob1961 * r31077 10/brlcad/trunk/src/libged/mirror.c: Need to use bu_log when wdbp is NULL.
18:36.10 PrezKennedy yukonbob, i found a way to make millions of dollars
18:36.12 PrezKennedy g2g bye
18:36.14 PrezKennedy :-P
18:37.52 louipc I found the meaning of life and the purpose of human existence.
18:37.59 louipc gtg bye
18:47.36 yukonbob PrezKennedy: heh :)
18:48.13 yukonbob Does anybody know how to make the BRL-CAD gui look like Solidworks?
18:48.20 yukonbob Oh got it... g2g bye
18:49.06 yukonbob foresees this being a BRL-CAD meme
18:49.55 louipc haha are you saying that is more elusive answer than the meaning of human existence? hahha
18:50.16 alex_joni I found the answer to the universe, life and everything..
18:50.21 yukonbob heh -- well no... but...
18:50.37 yukonbob alex_joni: but the margins were too small to write down the solution?
18:50.47 alex_joni yukonbob: no.. I'll share the solution
18:50.51 alex_joni it's 42
18:51.08 alex_joni yukonbob: the issue is figuring out the question :)
18:51.28 yukonbob What is the average flight speed of an unladen swallow?
18:52.20 alex_joni european?
18:52.38 alex_joni or african?
18:52.47 yukonbob dunno
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18:53.06 alex_joni then.. err.. no
18:53.12 alex_joni wrong question :)
18:53.25 brlcad knows how to make BRL-CAD gui look like solidworks ;)
18:53.34 alex_joni yukonbob: joke aside.. never read h2g2?
18:53.38 yukonbob isn't surprised
18:53.39 brlcad not that that's the goal ;)
18:53.55 yukonbob waves to brlcad; how're things?
18:53.56 archivist yes it is :))
18:54.01 brlcad heh
18:54.03 louipc solidworks has too many buttons anyways
18:54.04 brlcad yukonbob: pretty good
18:54.23 alex_joni wonders who knows how to make solidworks look like mged
18:54.27 archivist sorta luvs solidworks
18:54.29 yukonbob alex_joni: no -- I've got it, but not delved into it... of course I know about "42" though.
18:54.31 brlcad solidworks is a great interface, closest to what we do, so definitely something to pay attention to (but not necessarily mimic exactly)
18:54.51 alex_joni brlcad: well.. I'm more a fan of alibre ;)
18:55.04 alex_joni nice-ish interface too
18:55.04 yukonbob is a fan of mged and Tcl
18:55.16 louipc I'm a fan of keyboard-driven interfaces
18:55.24 yukonbob how much more precise can you get than saying "Do it this way"?
18:55.38 ``Erik is a fan of writing code and making someone else model O:-)
18:55.40 alex_joni yukonbob: way less precise..
18:55.54 alex_joni but in the learning curve.. maybe a bit faster to catch on
18:56.05 yukonbob is a fan of filing bug reports and getting ``Erik to code
18:56.06 yukonbob ducks
18:56.31 archivist yukonbob++
18:56.43 alex_joni careful.. he overflows easily
18:57.55 yukonbob ~karma
18:57.55 ibot yukonbob has karma of 2
18:58.00 alex_joni heh :)
18:58.18 alex_joni yukonbob: at least you're not binary
18:58.37 yukonbob There are 10 kinds of people in the world...
18:58.47 alex_joni heh
18:59.06 alex_joni s/binary/bool/
18:59.18 archivist #apache and karma debian, today it was about -606
18:59.33 yukonbob s/bool/binary/ -- non-zero is a typical boolean true
18:59.38 brlcad yukonbob: you should remind/annoy me to post up an architecture diagram at some point (not today) :)
18:59.55 archivist is it done yet?
19:00.31 brlcad it's been done for a long time, lots of detail not sorted out, but the big picture is there
19:00.57 yukonbob should sink his teeth into something attainable again wrt BRL-CAD -- perhaps more docbook, now that my eyes are uncrossed...
19:01.33 brlcad agrees ;)
19:01.36 yukonbob starseeker_: what's the status of the big piece of docbook you were working on?
19:01.55 brlcad he put one of his docs into the repo already, doc/docbook
19:04.57 CIA-21 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r31078 10/brlcad/trunk/doc/ (Makefile.am docbook/Makefile.am docbook/oed/Makefile.am): remove the vars, cause more trouble than they're worth; simplify build vars to just what's needed
19:05.35 yukonbob listens to the "autechre" channel on last.fm, hits keyboard
19:06.44 CIA-21 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r31079 10/brlcad/trunk/TODO: move the docbook items up in the list, separate out autogeneration/integration with the build system
19:06.51 brlcad tunes in to autechre
19:07.47 brlcad hmm.. not bad :)
19:08.14 brlcad good coding music
19:08.26 yukonbob :)
19:09.23 ``Erik is a fan of bitching and whining about broken code until brlcad fixes it O:-)
19:10.05 yukonbob ...when he's not talking about how Lisp and asm are the only True Languages... ;)
19:10.22 ``Erik heh, I don't think I've ever espoused the virtues of asm
19:10.35 ``Erik and I'm more of a thchemer than a lithper :)
19:11.32 yukonbob though he wanted to be a lithsper, but then dethided sthcheme might be the way -- but has still not _really_ got into it as much as he should...
19:13.50 yukonbob *thought he wanted...
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20:16.27 CIA-21 BRL-CAD: 03starseeker * r31080 10/brlcad/trunk/src/nirt/ (if.c parse_fmt.c usrfmt.h): Some preliminary work in support of gap reporting - more pieces are needed
20:33.19 CIA-21 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r31081 10/brlcad/trunk/TODO: make closing both the command window and graphics window shut down mged (i.e., fix unintentional behavior)
20:34.03 brlcad adds an FAQ item about printing and expands the couple dozen related pages that topic dragged in
20:40.32 brlcad http://brlcad.org/wiki/FAQ has the new entry
20:41.40 brlcad I also fixed RSS feeds, so feed://brlcad.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges&hidebots=0&feed=rss will work now for example (to keep track of the latest changes)
20:42.26 brlcad change that to feed=atom for Atom feeds
20:48.50 louipc nice
21:05.47 ``Erik whoa
21:06.37 ``Erik neat, I load up a wiki page and the text is normal, highlight a word and that one line turns bold (and doesn't unturn bold if I unhighlight)
21:10.15 louipc hooray for the internets
22:01.36 brlcad Brothomstates .. nifty
22:09.16 CIA-21 BRL-CAD: 03starseeker * r31082 10/brlcad/trunk/src/nirt/ (if.c parse_fmt.c usrfmt.h): Reporting gaps now on command line nirt - mged version isn't happy yet
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