I meant another type of gizmoid, but you were close (gizmoids are a class of mathematical functions which are particularly useful).

From "Mapping the Invisible Landscape: Folklore, Writing, and the Sense of Place":
"... a tangetial remark interpolated into the narrative by the speaker ..."

Does the author mean a logistic digression?

What would be the story? A girl fell in love with a man, but he just wanted her body, so she didn't go to meet him. Epilogue: she's an old happy crazy cat lady.

Paul, will you show us a photo of how you look in those fake lashes?

Without words. Leave English style.

There were no centimeters in the XVIIth century.

Centimetres were invented by Europeans to undermine the British Empire. 

Well, it was the french.

PS: Europe is not a continent as it is a continium of Asia.

French? It was Burattini, an Italian in the service of a Polish king.

I'm sorry, it's the middle of my non-working month and I'm feeling like a bunch of protons in LHC on the last stretch (you have no idea how much food I prepared tonight!). Next month I will be leaving only short erratic comments about airports, dry heaves, and how cold it is in Norway.

If Millennial Falcon landed in Eastern Poland:



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" Hossenfelder’s real target, when you strip away some unfortunate terminol ogy, is not beauty but self-satisfaction, which encourages disengagement from reality. " - Wilczek is mansplaining what Hossenfelder really meant so nicely... :-) Anyway, I thought of the experimental detection of Majorana f...

I suspect Deflandre is someone's (not very successful) AI project. That's the only way it can come from a uni email (even with all my reservations about the today's academia).

We use inches in Ukraine. We just called them палець (finger) =1 inch. There's also стопа (foot) =12 fingers, which is a standard set of fingers every Ukrainian has (though it can vary depending on how far from Chernobyl they live), and лікоть (elbow) = 2 feet.

The video just proves my point. BTW, in London I have to buy opera tickets one year ahead to get decent seats. In Oslo it's about a month to the show and more than a half of tickets is still available (the whole first row in stalls is full though! why?! acoustics and vision are pretty bad so close t...

The problem is that those errors are hard to find, e.g. when two well-tested parts of code don't work together and you're left with no clue why. That's why you need contracts as I mentioned https://www.wired.com/2010/11/1110mars-climate-observer-report/ Is NASA can get it wrong, what can we say abo...