Notices by Mona Drafter ⚥ (mona@cybre.space)

@mareklach @KitRedgrave not true! Laurelai, everyone's favorite scapegoat around here, quickly determined that the list is policed from the outside after gaining entry to it by ordinary means, thereby demonstrating that being on the list is at least partly determined by arbitrary moderation decisions.

in any case not a single user outside of Gargron's fan club wants this.

so apparently Gargron has created a Popular Persons directory under his supervision. no one is allowed to be popular that he doesn't think deserves it. I feel good about this, don't you?

@Canageek @naga my guess: an extra decimal place of stored precision, kept to make currency conversion slightly more trustworthy

"air quality index" values have been thrown about frequently in the discourse(tm) on the smoke and haze now blanketing the Pacific Northwest, and I was curious about just what this index actually _measured_.

it turns out that it takes five pollutants into account: ozone, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, and particulates in two different size ranges.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_quality_index#United_States

@drwho @Shufei @starbreaker @tinker I think there's still a lot of clinging to the illusion that crafting software is some kind of art form, and that programmers will continue to be valued for the artistry of their work when in fact the people with money don't give a rat's ass as long as they can cobble together something that sort of gets the job done well enough that they can continue to collect rent on it