spinflip @spinflip@qoto.org

It's alsp really interested to see the differences in how they answer questions. I love it when people get asked really hard and broad questions: it's a great opportunity to demonstrate what they know, demonstrate their ability to think rationally beyond what they know, and admit when they can't reason their way any further. All great skills! But some students seem to really freak out at the prospect of open questions with no simple right/wrong answer

Watching our undergraduate research students give their final presentations, and *wow* there's a wide range of how much they've accomplished in their ~7 months of work: some make me feel keenly aware of the shortcomings of my PhD, and others seem like they've only really worked for the last month. Research is hard.

@headachebooth you ever… you ever thought about fucking a barrel of crude?

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Update: I've just spent the last six hours repeatedly failing to solve a problem that turned out to just be DNS. In hindsight, that's pretty much what I should have expected

@geordie I'm thinking of just buying some sort of cheap bunny ears and seeing what I can learn from the software side, but that definitely seems like a real risk

@scarydan simultaneously, I'm trying to play some stuff with the girlfriend only to be reminded that my 19th-century concertina doesn't quite work with modern concert tuning

@geordie ah, nice! Is there much interesting non-ADS radio traffic to pick up in the Sydney area?

Breakfast: salami and cheese croissants, and a mug of beautiful Yorkshire gold

It's my first reasonably free Saturday in a while, and I think I'm going to spend some time playing around with my newly arrived raspberry pi! It's currently functioning as a basic Kodi media centre and nothing else, but it seems a good tool for learning a bit about Linux systems and networking. Things I'd like to look into:

• Always-on torrentbox: transmission with webclient, set up openvpn to tunnel torrent traffic but leave normal traffic. Seems a good way to learn some basic linux networking stuff

• LAMP server to host a WP blog or something. Not sure i really need this, but could be fun to set up.

And maybe later:

• ADS-B logging with RTL-SDR. I don't have the hardware at the moment, but SDR seems interesting and I'm sure it'd force me to learn new stuff about processing real-time datastreams.

What're you guys doing with SBCs? Anyone have any cool projects they'd like to share?

@Surasanji first day of summer, it's all downhill from here

it is too hot

@geordie the cursed season comes again

@kara@witchcraft.cafe @KaylinEvergreen "Twenty years on the ice, Mac. Twenty years, and that's enough: come the first flight of the summer, I'm goin' to Florida. It's been cold for too long."
<a single tear forms as he stares into the distance>

Also, this: http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/