[-] Malgas@beehaw.org 3 points 6 days ago

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

[-] Malgas@beehaw.org 33 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'd just like to point out, for the record, that that isn't the original trilogy. Sands of Time is the fifth Prince of Persia game.

[-] Malgas@beehaw.org 95 points 2 months ago

Just to note: Marie Curie's lab books cannot be handled without protective gear and are stored in lead containment boxes because of all the new chemistry she discovered.

[-] Malgas@beehaw.org 40 points 4 months ago

Well, not always: Plural 'they' is a borrowing from Old Norse ca. 1200 AD, and the earliest attestation of singular 'they' is about a century later.

But, yeah, you'd think 700 years of continuous use would be enough to make it uncontroversial...

[-] Malgas@beehaw.org 51 points 5 months ago

Never ask:

  • A woman her age.

  • A man his salary.

  • Odo what he did during the Cardassian occupation of Bajor.

[-] Malgas@beehaw.org 45 points 6 months ago

This works for all numbers ending in 9:

x*9+x+9=x(9+1)+9

=10x+9

[-] Malgas@beehaw.org 33 points 6 months ago

Pfft, catapults. A trebuchet can launch a 90kg advertisement over 300 meters.

[-] Malgas@beehaw.org 48 points 7 months ago

The sound of scientific discovery is less often "Eureka!" than "Huh, that's funny..."

[-] Malgas@beehaw.org 81 points 7 months ago

It's amazing how often things are similar to what they are.

[-] Malgas@beehaw.org 33 points 8 months ago

Oh. I thought they were saying they're good a drawing curly brackets.

Which, those are some nice curly brackets.

[-] Malgas@beehaw.org 45 points 10 months ago

Why did you build a death ray?

To take over the world.

No, I mean, what mad hypothesis are you testing? Are you just making mad observations?

Look, I'm just trying to take over the world. That's all.

You're at least going to leave some of the world as a mad control group, right?

Sad fact: most "mad scientists" are actually mad engineers.

(Borrowed from a Cowbirds in Love strip which at the time of this writing is inaccessible.)

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