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You'd assume that, but then you've not had the misfortune of using Google Cloud. "Because fuck you, that's why." -- Sundar Pichai.

The big benefit of AWS Linux and Azure Linux is they start up really really quickly on their respective platforms, so if you've an app to run that's fairly platform agnostic then it's easy to deploy at scale. If it's not very platform agnostic then you're in for a world of pain. AL2023 in particular seems to just rename all the packages differently from any other distro just for the fun of it.

Ritardando = slowing down, it's a tempo notation.

pp = pianissimo (very soft), mf = mezzoforte (medium strong). One of my old conductors would say "it's not about volume, it's about feeling", so intensity is a good word, although it often refers to volume. One of the main jobs of the conductor is making sure the music is interpreted in a way that fits the venue; pianissimo can be quite loud (but 'soft') in a big auditorium.

Die doesn't mean anything - at least, not too me as a violinist. Might just be a percussion instruction to let the sound die away, rather than muffling it.

Let's get it to 25 hours per day, I could do with a bit more time in bed.

Years, sadly.

Well, three is prime and pi starts with a three, therefore, even if there's larger primes, there is one which is the largest. QED.

Supposedly Asma filed for divorce soon after her husband fled Syria for Russia and is planning a new life in London, if you fancy your chances?

"Double it and add thirty" is accurate enough for ambient temperatures, and easier to do in your head. If you need scientific accuracy then you wouldn't be using Fahrenheit anyway.

If Wikipedia's page on z-library is any indication, then a Tor link is probably your best bet. Absolutely shocking how they keep an up-to-date link there where anyone can see and use it.

Ah, but that is my cat. We call him Tux, our neighbours called him Boots. We've a 'street whatsapp' channel for arguing over the bins and getting to the bottom of who's cat has rocked up in who's house. Number of times I've seen a familiar moggy on an unfamiliar bedspread.

Cats, man. You might think you own them, but if anything, you own them for a while.

So all of the mainstream porn will be blocked, leaving all of the niche and special-interest stuff available? Excellent, excellent...

Love Tyranny and PoE. Think Deadfire would have been an exceptional game if there was about half as much of it, but even as an epic RPG it does go on. Ten bucks for 'three big games' of content is a steal, though.

It isn't that 'successful game has a better-funded sequel that loses the magic due to feature creep' is exactly unheard of - it's a tale as old as time. But Deadfire was a sales disappointment, which it probably wouldn't have been if they'd only spent half as much making it, and so we won't be getting a PoE3 :-(

Didn't realise you worked at my place, Ascrod.