Malgas

@Malgas@beehaw.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gottem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The people interacting with patients don’t know which is which, but somebody does.

  The whole point is seeing if the drug is better than a placebo, so you definitely need that information when it’s time to analyze data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What else can we do with sugar (sucrose)?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What does ‘b***’ mean in the first panel?

  It looks like censorship, but I can’t think of any b-words that make sense there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What was the Windows 3.0/1 graphical alternative that also ran on DOS?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The first computer my dad bought, back in the late '80s, was mostly a DOS machine that also came with a mouse-driven GUI called GEM.

  I don’t know if it ran on top of DOS, though. It booted directly from its own set of disks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Carl Sagan's 9 timeless lessons for detecting baloney⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Carl! There’s a dead human in our house!

  Don’t worry, it’s just Zombie Feynman.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Learning a new kind of magic⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well obviously she needs to know how to defeat the demon core.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Civilization VII is the way it is, and how its devs plan to win critics back⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The fact that they’re still referring to obvious missteps as “great new mechanics” doesn’t fill me with much confidence.

  That they are naming this update after another widely-panned Civ game is icing on the cake. (This may admittedly be unintentional, as it is also a reference to the tagline of the original game, but it still reads as tone deaf to me.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, Paradox are aware that a “barrage of DLCs” can scare away new players, for all their bundles and discounts⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to buy a lot of DLC for Paradox grand strategy games. I never thought full-price was worth it, but they regularly had 90+% off sales where you could pick up all but the most recent for a couple bucks each. Nowadays they never seem to go lower than 50%, which puts them solidly in the price range where I could get an entire game for the same price, and I can’t justify that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US has told Ukraine it must sign peace deal with Russia to get security guarantees, source says⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe since Obama

  The Budapest Memorandum was signed in 1994.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Denominator, go Mercator⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s because they’ve got everything north of Hudson’s Bay broken out separately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Marie Curie was, in fact, a married mother when she did the work that earned her two Nobel Prizes in separate fields.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Ship, No Adventure, Just Poker. Honestly, I'd watch that.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Poker Night at the Inventory, but Trek?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Only the keenest eyes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not even neon!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God's Property⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The numbers are verse numbers, used for citing specific passages, e.g. “Ezekiel 23:20”.

  I would assume that the letters are annotations, and that this is likely an academic Bible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pi calculation world record shattered at 314 trillion digits with a four-month run on a single server — StorageReview retakes the crown, thanks to storage bandwidth⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s approximately 314 trillion more digits than is necessary to calculate the circumference of the observable universe to within a Planck length.

  (The actual number is 62.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Like many crappy things these days, the name and some of the concept were stolen from good sci-fi. Snow Crash, in this case, in which it was as if the entire Internet was VR.

  Which, the Web barely existed when that book was written, so wild visions of what the Internet might turn out to be were to be expected. And something like it remains a common cyberpunk trope to this day.

  That said, I disagree with the other poster that it will ever happen, let alone is inevitable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I knew it!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Those don’t seem to address the little girl. Kaguya grows quickly but is nevertheless apparently an adult by the time she goes to the moon. And the moon rabbit just loops back to Chang 'e.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I knew it!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, I thought Chang’e was an adult woman. Is there a different moon-rabbit-lady story I don’t know about?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Euler's Meme⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems possible that there might also be finite closed rings of memes that all make fun of another. In this case there would be no normiest meme, and dankness would not be well-ordered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh no my harvest is too bountiful⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fun fact: “nuclear” ultimately comes from the Latin nuculus, ‘little nut’. The c and l being adjacent is the result of metathesis, similar to pronouncing “ask” as “ax”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An apple a day, ... Ah well, fuck it.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s probably asymptotic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Punch Time⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a decent enough illustration of the sort of thing that can happen when you translate an idiom literally. To be truly accurate that panel would have to be in a language other than English, but then it would be useless to anyone who doesn’t also understand that second language.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The planet still belongs to the dinosaurs.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  RIP Thag Simmons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is the enemy?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Everything changed when the Structural Engineering Nation attacked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe there’s some dialect where it’s used that way?

  Like how “scheme” strongly connotes nefariousness in American English, but I’ve heard Brits use it non-pejoritively.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Viva la Revolucion (becomes cancer)⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought I was an autonomous collective.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Colony building sim Mountaincore is now free to play and open source⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So is this a Dwarf Fortress knock-off?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BRASSICAS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  🔫🌼 Always has been.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I thought it was an easy question ...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Or, in either field (formal language theory bridges both) it can mean any string of symbols, letters, or tokens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The point is there’s no statistical difference between rolling one die an infinite number of times, rolling an infinite number of dice once, and rolling an infinite number of dice an infinite number of times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Atoms Family⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s ass.