Malgas
@Malgas@beehaw.org
- Comment on I thought it was an easy question ... 1 week 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 2 weeks 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 pump up the jamz 2 weeks ago:
When Pump Up the Jam was first broadcast, audiences feared it was real, and that jam would be pumped into their homes.
The lyrics give clues to the location of a buried golden hare that has never been found.
- Comment on The Atoms Family 3 weeks ago:
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s ass.
- Comment on xcoffee 4 weeks ago:
Hence error 418.
- Comment on Can anyone help me identify this Xbox controller? 4 weeks ago:
but it seems too good quality to be custom work and is definitely an official controller.
- Comment on He's just lucky I guess 5 weeks ago:
This conversation is gastro-etymology, BTW.
- Comment on That's Quackers 1 month ago:
Well obviously this flower is pollinated by ducks.
- Comment on Jazz hands 1 month ago:
“3.6 violinists. Not great, not terrible.”
- Comment on reDUcTIon iS gAIn 1 month ago:
Right, like the guy with the negatronic brain isn’t going to be evil. Come on!
- Comment on PC gaming fan Steven Spielberg says he "can't do controllers," prefers keyboard and mouse 1 month ago:
Then you get things like GTA or Saints Row, where whether I want to be using kb+m or controller changes based on whether I’m driving or on foot.
I’ve long thought that the ideal control scheme would somehow incorporate both a mouse for camera control, the sheer number of buttons you get from having your off-hand on a keyboard, and also analog inputs for things like movement/steering and vehicle throttle.
- Comment on Poggers 1 month ago:
There’s a running gag in archaeology that variations on “ritual purposes” actually means “I have no idea what this was for”.
That said, there has historically been a connection between certain divination practices and games of chance, so this could easily be both.
- Comment on Covert Racism in AI: How Language Models Are Reinforcing Outdated Stereotypes 1 month ago:
Shit in, shit out. That’s AI.
“On two occasions I have been asked, – “Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?” … I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.”
—Charles Babbage, on his analytical engine, 1864
- Comment on We lost Keanu 1 month ago:
Finally, a worthy sequel to 5nowdog5.
- Comment on Pancake rolls 1 month ago:
That’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point.
- Comment on Seriously. 2 months ago:
It wouldn’t even change the difficulty, really. You’d just wind up multiplying or dividing by 9/10 instead of 9/5.
- Comment on BBC Science 2 months ago:
There’s a bristlecone pine tree in the White Mountains of California that is nearly 5000 years old.
- Comment on Best way to play the original Prince of Persia Trilogy? 2 months ago:
Gah, you’re right. I had it that way at first, but then glanced down a list to check my count and they listed 2002’s Harem Adventures as a separate game even though it’s just the Java phone port of the original.
- Comment on Best way to play the original Prince of Persia Trilogy? 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 fourth Prince of Persia game.
- Comment on little hopper 2 months ago:
Hell, there were still mammoths around when the pyramids at Giza were built.
Pygmy mammoths, on an island in northern Siberia, but still.
- Comment on Blocked 🚫 2 months ago:
The thing that is absolute is a predicate of the form “if [axioms] then [theorems]”.
And the fun thing about if statements is that they can be true even when the premise is false.
- Comment on Musk's X allowing Maga activists to earn cash from conspiracies about U.S. Presidential candidate Kamala Harris 2 months ago:
You say that as though he isn’t one of them.
- Comment on Nine Inch Nails To Do "TRON: Ares" Score 3 months ago:
They did a fantastic score for the Watchmen tv series as well.
- Comment on I definitely never unsubscribed from a YouTube channel just for that... 3 months ago:
Every model is wrong. Some are useful.
- Comment on the lamarcube 3 months ago:
Since this is for the benefit of non Spanish speakers, I feel the need to point out that the word “abogato” is a portmanteau of “abogado” (lawyer) and “gato” (cat).
- Comment on AI ‘Friend’ Company Spent $1.8 Million and Most of Its Funds on Domain Name 3 months ago:
Indeed, friend citizen. Would you like some Bouncy Bubble Beverage?
- Comment on This upcoming dating sim lets you romance household objects turned absolute fitties 3 months ago:
“Objects are made by men and used for many purposes. But we never…love…objects.”
—James Franco
“There’s nothing going on with the ottoman! That’s a business relationship!”
—ibid
- Comment on Conversing with Mathematicians 3 months ago:
Probably what they were going for, but there are literally an infinite number of exotic arithmetic spaces you could ask this question in. For example, x=10 works in any ring with a modulus greater than 100 and less than 1000.
- Comment on Existential Pain 4 months ago:
Skin bandits?
- Comment on Sheep 🐑 4 months ago:
Huh. TIL that italic emoji are a thing.
…I don’t know why that’s surprising to me, since they’re just Unicode, but it is.