Notices by Canageek (canageek@cybre.space), page 18

@MightyPork @pagrus I'm guessing most of them are small and don't cost much to run, whereas corporate codebases are huge and companies have to pay for them?

Today's work #chemistry #3Dprinting #crystallography

Dear programmers of mastodon, do any of you want to take a guess as to why the email notifying me of my expense claim being approved listed cents to three decimal places? It was an automated email, but I can't think of a reason you would ramp to three decimal places instead of two, or if they weren't rounding you get a lot more then three

@naga I have no idea why it would be there. Maybe one of the many programmers on mastodon could tell us?

@HTHR tl;dr It was a really really bad joke brought on by a memories of staring at hexagons and tooting about it before

@HTHR This also means when there's an issue I will spend is 6+ hours at a time staring at a screen covered with random dots and a bunch of hexagons. So yes I've hit the point where when I closed my eyes I would still be seeing three-dimensional arrangements of hexagons0

@HTHR The first thing I usually see are the hexagons formed by the organic bits I attached to my uranium or lanthanide sense it's incredibly unlikely you would get six equally spaced peaks by accident.

@HTHR Sorry, I read that won't make any sense to a non-chemist. I'm doing my PhD in inorganic and organometallic chemistry, and I use x-ray diffraction to determine the structure of my materials. That gives me a list of spots of high density where atoms probably are, which I look for patterns in and determine the molecular structure.

@HTHR Also don't worry if I talk about seeing hexagons when I close my eyes it's due to staring it to many phenyl rings in my crystallography software, not your avatar ;)

@HTHR Well I've checked my math and owning a leather jacket makes you 8.46% more awesome and wearing it makes you 22.7% more awesome

@Alonealastalovedalongthe I'm sure the technology is possible, your issue is going to be money. Hosting isn't free and music takes lots of bandwidth. I remember when soundcloud was having issues the Internet archive issued a statement saying they could not take the data from them as sound clouds music repository was larger than their entire archive