@lnxw48a1 And people thought that Microsoft learnt their lesson and stopped shoving Microsoft Edge down their usees throats. This second wave is more aggressive than the first one ever was. The "new Microsoft" in action.
> People outside of the former USSR don’t really know about the siege. They often confuse it with the Siege of Stalingrad, by which they mean the Battle of Stalingrad, which was also a big deal, but not like the Siege of Leningrad.
Indeed we don't and indeed we do.
> 1.5m people died in the siege. It was and remains the largest-ever depopulation of any city in human history.
@lnxw48a1 Well, don't think of -18°C or +38°C as those limit temperatures then. As you said, those are approximate numbers, so it's just circular logic to say that round Fahrenheit degrees are more round than the corresponding degrees Celsius. Just round degrees Celsius then, to -20°C and +40°C. Which do have symmetry as well. But it's not like running naked in wind with -10°C is safe, so the margin of error is way too big either way. As a counterargument I can say that 0°C being the point of water freezing (under "normal" conditions) is useful in daily lives too, as it affects weather, reliability of ice, all that kind of stuff.
Saint Fury (saintfury@loadaverage.org)'s status on Monday, 22-Jun-2020 11:57:19 JST
Saint FuryDowntime was because the server had a SSD that failed. No data from LoadAverage was on that SSD, but the hypervisor OS was, so that made things dicey. Sorry for the fuss. There will be a hopefully short downtime sometime in the future to remove the failed drive. A replacement is already in place.
Why the drive failed is unknown, it seemed rather out of the blue, but as far as we can tell, the controller just upped and went. It won't even SMART test.
@chimo Well, yea, just as a specific tool to plug some issues of the time travel concept. It could be seen as "creating new timelines" while travelling, while also not actually creating anything, just throwing out of synch.
> so you better be supporting Black Lives Matter @waifu I don't know enough about everything that happens under that name, and it's not really up to anyone specifically I guess. So I wouldn't expect you to sign up for it all, and I hope you don't expect that from me (the notice's a bit ambiguous). But I think we can all agree on that police brutality is a thing, black people's lives do matter and George Floyd should've been alive today. As far as I know, that's the idea.