Posts by Azure@vulpine.club
(DIR) Post #9jvHGoEPucAZMD6HCq by Azure@vulpine.club
2019-06-17T01:48:58Z
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@USBloveDog I like the original Tubular Bells just because I know he wrecked the set of tubular bells he was playing smashing them too hard with a metal hammer.THOUGH, being part storm, I've always been fond of Five Miles Out :)@feoh
(DIR) Post #9jvIEVuZ9fxDugHhEO by Azure@vulpine.club
2019-06-17T01:53:54Z
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@USBloveDog I'm also really, really fond of Piltdown Man, but it scares the neighbors when I sing along with it.@feoh
(DIR) Post #9jyeg9XWhrlD6RyKvI by Azure@vulpine.club
2019-06-18T14:27:17Z
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@enkiv2 If you have a link to Evangelicalism being influenced by the New Age I'd love to read it! (I guess charismatics might fit more into that description than others?)My view of evangelicalism (having grown up with it and looked at the history) or specifically FUNDAMENTALISM, is of a dysfunctional antiauthoritarianism (not 'antiauthoritarianism is bad' but 'These people tried to be antiauthoritarian and /failed/')Rejecting explicit traditional and actual linguistic and historical scholarship and the idea that 'the spirit is the teacher' and accidentally conjuring up the implicit assumption that since the spirit is the teacher there can be no /intellectual/ disagreements, anyone wrong is wrong because they lack The Spirit or are bad somehow. And creating implicit traditions and lineages without owning up to them existing…@aeonofdiscord
(DIR) Post #9jyeimFPlL7ljTkfp2 by Azure@vulpine.club
2019-06-18T14:37:36Z
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@enkiv2 I had /forgotten/ about Frank E. Peretti inspiring a generation of people engaging in prayer vigils to give angels power to combat the Demonic Forces surrounding them in spite of theologians telling them that was nowhere in the Bible and to knock it off up until you mentioned Angelic Magic.@aeonofdiscord
(DIR) Post #9jzQmMgPY4QfP59iPQ by Azure@vulpine.club
2019-06-19T01:46:26Z
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I know there are practical reasons for it, mostly having to do with the RIAA/MPAA fishing for IP addresses to fuss about, but every time someone mentions a private tracker, my first thought is, "But if piracy is based on the idea that all media should be available to all people, how can we then create a node of piracy restricted to some elite?"
(DIR) Post #9k7P8S9fEuo26KvGy0 by Azure@vulpine.club
2019-06-22T22:13:08Z
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Instead of making a gigantic slate phone that unfolds into a giganticker tablet phone, why don't they make a smartphone sized phone that FOLDS UP like a flip phone?
(DIR) Post #9k9H30iLQQ4EELxS5Y by Azure@vulpine.club
2019-06-23T18:32:19Z
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One of the stranger things growing up in a Very Religious Household was that when I had an imaginary friend my parents had Serious Discussions about whether it was a guardian angel or a demonic influence.(To be fair to them this was at the Height of Freaking Out about The New Age and Evangelical media was bombarding people with scare stories about how children were being taught /meditation/ in schools and how exercises done in the name of creativity in Art Class were /ACTUALLY/ intended to open the minds of children to Demonic Possession.)
(DIR) Post #9k9XxnQF7DIwmMaf6e by Azure@vulpine.club
2019-06-23T22:20:30Z
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@ziphi So what you're saying is we need to build a long distance hug projection machine and you can just slip into and out of the beam as needed?:red_fox_azure:📠🤗⚡~~~~~~~~~~~===<<<<<<<<<<<{{{{((((((((
(DIR) Post #9k9Y5fverKOXr72dpA by Azure@vulpine.club
2019-06-23T22:24:10Z
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@ziphi Well, we could either go with active repeater technology, or arrays of embrace-columnation acoustic lenses…The former is probably preferable because it involves a line of foxes all beaming hugs to each other and passing them on.
(DIR) Post #9kEytnRY20urBLWZ9M by Azure@vulpine.club
2019-06-26T13:54:00Z
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Yeesh. Software handling gopher links by trying to pretend https:// in front of them (http://gopher://foo/bar…) is just pathetic. You'd think they'd know enough to (a) only prepend schemata to user-entered not to hyperlinks in a document and (b) Realize that gopher:// links HAVE a schema and it's not on they understand and say so.
(DIR) Post #9kH8Ng3J3CToKcre8u by Azure@vulpine.club
2019-06-27T02:46:48Z
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Stable's just another word for out of date and broken.
(DIR) Post #9kH8Ngo6FDuUfkl14y by Azure@vulpine.club
2019-06-27T14:49:25Z
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@hyratel In this case, I'm not referring to individual software, but collections of it.Specifically, stack, a Haskell build system, by default uses a curated list of 'long term supported' libraries that are built and tested together. I don't object to this existing. I think there are places people might want to use it. I object to it being the default because stack has become ubiquitous enough that most applications tell users to install them by typing 'stack install whatever'.And if the latest source of the package depends on something outside the long-term supported collection, the build breaks and recommends an action that will probably fix the problem, but will cause problems later on.(stack has an 'implicit global package' that is mostly managed by accident. Whatever the current long-term-support collection is when you first run it, that's what it is for every subsequent install years later, unless you change it. Along with whatever temporary fixes are put into place.)Part of this is lousy UI, to be fair, but I also don't like the overemphasis on 'stability' in Enterprise distributions either since often they end up only supporting language versions from five years ago, and completely lack (say) new kernel features made to work around what were basically bugs in the original feature.
(DIR) Post #9kJHicPH5WIF0f7VA0 by Azure@vulpine.club
2019-06-28T14:38:07Z
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@enkiv2 In Diamond Age it could at least be argued as a Necessary Weasel to get the connection between the Narrator and the Protagonist, too.
(DIR) Post #9kVm9AcEJ5w5tVMbaK by Azure@vulpine.club
2019-07-04T15:51:21Z
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"Beauty in music is too often confused with something that lets the ear lie back in an easy chair. Many sounds that we are used to do not bother us, and for that reason we are inclined to call them beautiful. Frequently — possibly almost invariably — analytical and impersonal test will show that when a new or unfamiliar work is accepted as beautiful on its first hearing, its fundamental quality is one that tends to put the mind to sleep." — #charlesIves
(DIR) Post #9kaX8uJWOCXJoTpT5U by Azure@vulpine.club
2019-07-06T23:29:02Z
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Silver Needle is a *very* bud heavy white tea, and so benefits from a brewing temperature of at least 85°C or possibly 90°C. (I've complained about this before. Most sources recommend brewing temperatures that are far too low and too short for white teas which makes *no* sense considering that buds have a much lower surface area to volume ratio than leaves.)For gongfu I use 8g for 200 mL of water (mostly because I have a 200 mL borosilicate pot) at 21 seconds for the first round, increasing by seven seconds for every round thereafter.For other-than-gongfu, I had a 1.3 litre cast iron teapot, and I use 10g of tea for 3 minutes for the first round and 4 minutes for the second. Since a good silver needle is fairly generous you can get a third round out of it, I think, if you go six minutes.Silver needle is one of those teas that, even in other-than-gongfu brewing, tastes much better on the second round. (basically ALL quality teas taste best on the second round for gongfu.)And because it has fine hairs (which is where the name comes from, the hairs glinting like tiny silver needles in the liquor) avoid filtering it through too fine a strainer. If you can just decant it. Otherwise you miss out on some of the weight and thickness of the brew.#teaTimeWithAzure
(DIR) Post #9kcXSfegsXjPuiXJY0 by Azure@vulpine.club
2019-07-07T22:42:32Z
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@tuxcrafting Insisting on transitive block (that is, blocking people for NOT blocking someone else) is, to my mind, as much of a reason as spam for everyone to act together to exclude an instance until they stop.
(DIR) Post #9kh0AgPFIJCuwqk4p6 by Azure@vulpine.club
2019-07-10T02:03:53Z
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@USBloveDog By landlord class, do you mean Actual Landlords? (If my city is anything to go by almost nobody is a landlord because big property management companies BUY EVERYTHING.)Or something else?
(DIR) Post #9khzuIfD1L3UVwZ4ka by Azure@vulpine.club
2019-07-10T13:55:22Z
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@art My father once dislocated his shoulder by sneezing with his hand in his pocket.
(DIR) Post #9knSNwDCpRRu4mBeRk by Azure@vulpine.club
2019-07-13T05:06:55Z
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Also it's really annoying when you'd be happy to purchase something but it's out of print, yet it's also obscure enough no torrents seem to exist for it.
(DIR) Post #9knSTPFkHZuNaoyxyC by Azure@vulpine.club
2019-07-13T05:08:57Z
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@debugninja The Big Finish Productions 'Sapphire and Steel' audio plays. They don't even have them listed on their site.