| 12 Nov 2020 |
 Ashley Smith | I just learnt about magic numbers, but I guess they are not magic enough! | 15:27:54 |
 jtniehof | The wikipedia entry is fascinating, although there are examples that get icky. | 15:29:47 |
| jtniehof | I went down that rabbit hole awhile ago explaining a SpacePy commit where I used 0xdeadbeef | 15:30:04 |
 Cadair | For the particular use, I want to be able to fail as early as possible | 15:31:16 |
| Cadair | and also it's possible the user might try and read a file without the hdf5 lib installed | 15:31:47 |
| Cadair | so want to be able to know to tell them they need it | 15:31:58 |
| jtniehof | It does look like you can have a perfectly valid netcdf4 that then has one structure with one little noncompliant thing nestled all the way down in it which blows the whole thing up | 15:43:31 |
| jtniehof | like some jerk sticking the Unicode character on line 8000 of 7-bit FORTRAN source. Hypothetically. | 15:43:50 |
| Cadair | lol | 15:44:00 |
| Cadair | cough FITS with unicode | 15:44:10 |
| jtniehof | shudder | 15:44:18 |
| jtniehof | kids, don't copy/paste equations from a paper into a comment | 15:44:35 |
| Cadair | I saw a solar mission put Å in a FITS comment once | 15:44:38 |
| Cadair | it made me SO MAD | 15:44:42 |
| Cadair | In reply to @jtniehof:matrix.org
kids, don't copy/paste equations from a paper into a comment or in python 3 go for it | 15:44:55 |
| Cadair | because you can | 15:45:01 |
| jtniehof | yes, the Right Answer these days is to accept that there are languages other than American English in the world and stop treating Unicode as weird | 15:45:56 |
| jtniehof | and use an environment that manages that | 15:46:14 |
| Cadair | In reply to @cadair:cadair.com
I saw a solar mission put Å in a FITS comment once names hidden to protect the guilty 😉 | 15:46:21 |
| jtniehof | Not that Unicode is perfect, or even has its priorities straight: https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/i-can-text-you-a-pile-of-poo-but-i-cant-write-my-name | 15:46:59 |
| jtniehof | (politically Unicode never would have replaced SHIFT-JIS without emoji support, but, ugh) | 15:47:40 |
| 15 Nov 2020 |
 Michael Hirsch | General AGU Fall Meeting author reminder: the mandatory AGU Fall Meeting "iPoster" service for "E-Lighting" and "poster" does NOT accept PDF, Powerpoint, LaTeX math, etc. So if you're a presenting author and haven't logged into the author system yet, might be time to do so to avoid a last-minute scramble to manually reenter content. https://www.agu.org/Fall-Meeting/Pages/Present/Presenter-Guidelines
Those with "oral" presentations can use the format of their choice: https://www.agu.org/-/media/Files/Fall-Meeting/Preparing-Presentation-Guidelines.pdf | 18:30:25 |
| Michael Hirsch | * General AGU author reminder: the mandatory AGU "iPoster" service does NOT accept PDF, Powerpoint, LaTeX math, etc. So if you're an author and haven't logged into the author system yet, might be time to do so to avoid a last-minute scramble to manually reenter content. | 18:30:44 |
| Michael Hirsch | * General AGU Fall Meeting author reminder: the mandatory AGU Fall Meeting "iPoster" service does NOT accept PDF, Powerpoint, LaTeX math, etc. So if you're an author and haven't logged into the author system yet, might be time to do so to avoid a last-minute scramble to manually reenter content. | 18:32:13 |
| Michael Hirsch | * General AGU Fall Meeting author reminder: the mandatory AGU Fall Meeting "iPoster" service does NOT accept PDF, Powerpoint, LaTeX math, etc. So if you're a presenting author and haven't logged into the author system yet, might be time to do so to avoid a last-minute scramble to manually reenter content. | 18:33:01 |
| Michael Hirsch | * General AGU Fall Meeting author reminder: the mandatory AGU Fall Meeting "iPoster" service for "E-Lighting" and "poster" does NOT accept PDF, Powerpoint, LaTeX math, etc. So if you're a presenting author and haven't logged into the author system yet, might be time to do so to avoid a last-minute scramble to manually reenter content.
Those with "oral" presentations can use the format of their choice: https://www.agu.org/-/media/Files/Fall-Meeting/Preparing-Presentation-Guidelines.pdf | 20:34:06 |
| Michael Hirsch | * General AGU Fall Meeting author reminder: the mandatory AGU Fall Meeting "iPoster" service for "E-Lighting" and "poster" does NOT accept PDF, Powerpoint, LaTeX math, etc. So if you're a presenting author and haven't logged into the author system yet, might be time to do so to avoid a last-minute scramble to manually reenter content. https://www.agu.org/Fall-Meeting/Pages/Present/Presenter-Guidelines
Those with "oral" presentations can use the format of their choice: https://www.agu.org/-/media/Files/Fall-Meeting/Preparing-Presentation-Guidelines.pdf | 20:34:47 |
| 16 Nov 2020 |
 Nick Murphy | As mentioned in the telecon today...the next planned PyHC telecon will be on January 11 at 11 am EST. It'll be a discussion with Ian Cosden and/or others from the US Research Software Engineer Association. Ian will probably start with a short presentation that can lead into a broader discussion about the nascent profession of research software engineering. | 16:49:53 |
 Julie Barnum (LASP-CU) | Thanks for reaching out to the US-RSE people and getting that telecon organized, Nick Murphy ! | 16:54:38 |
| Nick Murphy | Oh! There was one more thing I heard about through US-RSE: INTERSECT which has the goal of research software engineering training. I'm hoping to become involved in that a bit. | 17:06:00 |
