#soylent | Logs for 2024-01-28
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[00:16:48] <Ingar> for that picture I used the raspberry pi hq camera
[00:35:22] <chromas> Oh that should stabilize on a boat just fine
[01:36:29] <Ingar> yeah, but the telescope it was attached to would probabely not :p
[01:42:37] <ted-ious> How big do you think the boat would have to be to not be affected by wave motion?
[01:43:17] <ted-ious> Usually waves are only a few feet apart and even really huge ones are less than a mile right?
[01:43:58] <ted-ious> So if you had a floating barge that was 5 square miles wouldn't it basically ignore the waves?
[01:46:27] <chromas> Throw on some accelerometers and voice coils and baby you got a stew goin
[01:48:37] <ted-ious> If china can make new islands and turn them into military bases we ought to be able to do something actually good.
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[10:57:39] <Ingar> if I do deep sky astrophotography, with guiding, I start with align the mount to the celestial north pole, target is to get withint 20 arc seconds.
[10:58:39] <Ingar> for guiding precision, ideally you want to get below 1 arc second deviation
[11:00:57] <Ingar> (my mount usually doesn't get there because she likes to be a bitch)
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[20:39:43] * Runaway searches Amazon and Ebay for 1 arc nanosecond camera mounts
[20:43:00] <Bytram> Who can't count to *six*, hmm? https://youtu.be
[20:43:02] <Runaway> As a more practical answer to ted-ious question, the Navy stabilizes it's guns pretty efficiently on platforms as short as 300 ft and 40 feet wide.
[20:43:34] <chromas> how stable though?
[20:43:49] <chromas> do the targets get motion blur? :D
[20:44:05] <ted-ious> Stable enough to throw a big piece of metal a few miles but what about hold a camera steady on a star a billion miles away?
[20:44:25] <Bytram> All while saying only 2 % of people can pass a *dementia* test!
[20:45:36] <chromas> that's ancient news
[20:46:53] <Runaway> Stable enough to hit aircraft 20 mile away, while pitching crazily in 40 foot seas at the least.
[20:47:43] <Runaway> Bytram - I've never seen or taken a dementia test, but how about sobriety tests? Do you really think that you could pass a battery of sobriety tests?
[20:48:03] <Runaway> The world is full of pseudoscience nonsense, like lie detectors.
[20:48:22] <chromas> You could always use a navy gun stabilizer, then put more stabilizers on top. many cameras now have stabilization both of the sensor and lens
[20:49:44] <Runaway> I don't think I can afford the navy's stabilizers - that stuff is all 1000% markup when Congress approves appropriations, then it always goes over budget anyway.
[20:50:54] <chromas> well there you go...just get congress to approve a budget for you
[20:51:14] <chromas> let taxes and inflation pay for it
[20:51:35] <Runaway> Yeah, right. I've written nasty letters to more than half the congress critters, they ain't gonna give me nothin!
[20:51:57] <Runaway> Hell, I write nasty letters even to congress critters I more or less approve of.
[20:52:14] <Bytram> Runaway: Well, I have not had a drink (or other mind-altering substance) in over 30 years. I think THAT qualifies.
[20:52:50] <chromas> Bytram: well then you should be able to pass the tests....but could you?
[20:53:01] <Runaway> Bytram, you should really take a hard look at those sobriety tests. Many people can't pass them on their best days ever.
[20:53:57] <Runaway> You and I are aging - we have reasons why we might fail any given test, and neither of us is going to pass a battery of tests, especially considering the person who decides uses his subjective opinion
[20:54:24] <Runaway> If ever asked to submit to a sobriety test, just tell them "NO" and ask for a baloon to blow into.
[20:55:17] <Runaway> Or, voluteer to give a blood sample. You'll be much safer, and you'll have science on your side.
[20:56:42] <chromas> You mean a list of chores some guy made up without any sort of experimentation or study isn't science?
[20:58:14] <Runaway> https://www.atlasobscura.com
[20:58:34] <Runaway> To this day, only three tests are officially sanctioned—and all come from the same decades-long study that started in the 1970s.
[21:03:32] <chromas> we don't need that no mo'. just get a camera and train a muh AI on drunk vs non-drunk people and force everyone to go along with the results
[21:13:20] <ted-ious> God no don't give them any ideas!
[21:13:49] <ted-ious> Peter thiel will have a new startup getting government contracts by thursday.
[21:44:43] <chromas> sobriet.ai
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[21:48:34] * svarog greets.
[21:49:08] <chromas> welcome
[21:50:16] <svarog> thx
[21:58:23] <chromas> I think you can set enforcetime to 1
[22:00:41] <svarog> done
[22:00:46] <svarog> gonna cycle and try
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[22:02:25] <svarog> yay
[22:12:18] <chromas> 0 might be possible, unless that turns it off
[22:12:23] * chromas doesn't remember
[22:13:11] <chromas> I like weechat. if I were stuck using a terminal for irc I'd totally me using it
[22:14:27] <svarog> WeeChat is elite :)