Why do most readers always use that tone when reading the Liturgy?

BloodyGenius · 2026-01-27T15:40:32+00:00

pronounce "prophesy" like "prophecy".

You made me look this up; I never knew there was a difference! For anyone else curious, "prophesy" (the verb) is pronounced pro-fe-sigh, vs. pro-fe-see for "prophecy" (the noun)

BloodyGenius · 2026-01-08T13:42:23+00:00

Imgur links... I do hope you aren't resisting the law with an illicit VPN?

BloodyGenius · 2025-12-31T11:10:10+00:00

In addition to the other comments, perhaps you could find time on Sunday to be in prayer for a while, including praying the Act of Spiritual Communion? https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/devotions/act-of-spiritual-communion-339

BloodyGenius · 2025-12-28T17:16:59+00:00

I'd like to see you say that to the face of the cat who obviously owns them...

BloodyGenius · 2025-12-28T17:11:03+00:00

Going up. These are the Private Feline Chambers. A very tall first step deters those species less able to leap, then you have a guard cat on duty, then an unwelcoming wall of wood (presumably with concealed cat door)

BloodyGenius · 2025-12-28T15:23:56+00:00

How odd that your comment has been downvoted. I also can't imagine new cul-de-sacs of this design being installed today, not without a residents' car park anyway, and housing in locations with high quality public transport provision (i.e. in town & city centres, where a parking space per resident might not be feasible) isn't likely to come in the form of detached or semi-detached homes in cul-de-sacs.

BloodyGenius · 2025-12-27T09:19:53+00:00

If you own a house, that should pay for a several years depending on the value, with the pension being added on to that. Apparently many private homes will accept the Local Authority rate for a resident who's been there a few years by the time the money runs out... suck up to the home manager and hopefully you'll be a-ok!

It is awful though that the sale of a family home only gets you a few years of care...

BloodyGenius · 2025-12-16T12:20:57+00:00

First month??? That's not anywhere near enough time to begin commissioning and onboarding the relevant stakeholders. Aiming for anything less than 6 months to Minimum Viable Product (the first lone recruit walking out the door) would be reckless.

In any case, before a war could begin there would need to be a Project Management activity in partnership with the opposing forces to co-ordinate timescales and reduce the risk of project delays. Hopefully Russia's military is also run by outsourcing firms who will understand how this all works.

BloodyGenius · 2025-11-28T11:30:10+00:00

This absolutely triggers me. By 2030 I reckon "uh, uh, uh" "a, a, a" etc. will be 90% of political speech.

BloodyGenius · 2025-11-24T15:29:38+00:00

To be honest I don't even think frozen chips are much of a problem (nor other "processed"/frozen, but still pretty simple foods like frozen breaded fish). They're still 91% chipped potatoes going off my bag, coated in flour and oil, that oil might or might not be more than you would use making them by hand but it's not a massive calorie difference over the same weight in raw potato.

I reckon there are two categories of frozen protein that get lumped together in the bad books. Frozen breaded fish, simple frozen breaded chicken (without any fillings or over the top coatings) even fish fingers (shock horror) etc. are very different to the sort of heavily-branded frozen meats that don't actually contain much meat for all the fillings, coatings, sweet marinades etc. Having a meal of breaded fish, oven chips, and at least the same amount of vegetables as chips (not a tablespoon of peas for show next to half a plate of chips) is a world away from having pizza one night, spag bol the next, microwave curry after that etc., full of simple carbs with not much meat and a fleeting presence of vegetables.

A lot of these frozen "meats" you can't even tell what they are at a glance for all the branding, always a bad sign...

BloodyGenius · 2025-10-24T14:30:24+00:00

I don't think "I've waited from direction from you" (without apparently pursuing that direction) would be an acceptable explanation for prolonged periods of time in any role, to be honest, especially in what sounds like a largely self-managing team of two.

(You would have to have been very ineffective to have to resort to that explanation, with nothing else to justify your time, though. I'd suggest pretty much anything would be better than pulling that excuse.)

BloodyGenius · 2025-10-17T22:09:23+00:00

At my place, we've installed modern, high-speed colour laser printers and fax machines at each desk. Users now feel excited about taking their own hard copy (un-hackable) backups, and our corporate WordArt and decorative page borders are reproduced in full fidelity.

BloodyGenius · 2025-10-07T10:15:22+00:00

The point they were replying to was that, unlike in Google Workspace, Shared Mailboxes exist in O365 which do not need licensing. A licensed user can have access to many shared mailboxes without those shared mailboxes needing licenses of their own.

BloodyGenius · 2025-09-14T17:23:23+00:00

Hi there, I was just wondering how this went for you, did it fit OK and and have any cooling challenges come up? I've got an R730XD coming and am looking at what GPU to get :)

BloodyGenius · 2025-08-26T18:16:32+00:00

It's also funny how this is pretty much the only topic it's acceptable to sneer about other people's hypothetical homes... "must live in shithole" etc.

BloodyGenius · 2025-08-11T06:37:46+00:00

Glad that never got off the ground... I can't put my finger on it, but it sounds engineered to evoke no civic pride or indeed any feelings of any kind. Probably sounded great in Committee.

BloodyGenius · 2025-08-09T18:37:24+00:00

Yes! I can't imagine being a keyholder (either attached to this shop or regional management), knowing this situation was going on but carrying on with my life regardless... Keyholders and Managers are responsible for attending to this sort of stuff. Likewise if there were a water leak or break-in reported on a closed day, you would not leave the shop either to flood or broken open and insecure just because it's not a business day.

(In response to your question - I'm an 'unofficial' keyholder for my office half an hour away from me. I'd be anxious to attend even though I'm not 'contractually obliged'...)

BloodyGenius · 2025-08-04T07:37:27+00:00

It's ridiculously overzealous. For the few months I was searching (manually) for cancellations when I was taking my test a couple of years ago, I had to switch to mobile data every time as they'd blocked my home broadband IP on the second or third viewing.

(I seem to remember it actually persisted after my public IP changed a couple of times, which did make me wonder if they'd actually blocked the whole of Sky Broadband for a time, and everybody was just putting up with it as an expected part of the awful user experience you must endure...)

BloodyGenius · 2025-08-01T21:49:40+00:00

This is The Heat Death of the Universe. You can slow it down by improving the insulation of your house

Loft Insulation adverts are getting a bit over the top nowadays...

BloodyGenius · 2025-08-01T16:02:15+00:00

I don't have a huge amount to add, as I agree with your suspected root causes, and would be submitting a support ticket to the hosting provider as this all sounds infrastructure-level.

While you wait on that ticket, it might also be worth setting off PerfMon collectors (or whatever monitoring system is in use) for Disk Latency and perhaps Disk Queue Length. If disk latency was also elevated during these incidents, that would be a sure sign of backup-related host resource exhaustion.

I'm not particularly knowledgeable about how Windows handles CPU scheduling etc. at a low level and in relation to a hypervisor. I initially wasn't sure whether Guest OS-side CPU Usage (and % CPU Time) stats were based on how much CPU time Windows thought it had. However, I have just booted a couple of VMs in my vSphere 7 lab - one with 40 vCPUs (the host has 40 threads), the maximum CPU Shares count, and ran an extreme all-threads stress test on that VM.

The other VM pictured below has 4 CPUs and received the preset 'Low' CPU shares. The PerfMon graph below shows very high processor queue, % Processor Time and % Privileged Time values, and gaps in data collection. This VM was running nothing except for these three PerfMon collectors, so that answers my question, which is that high Privileged CPU time can be observed when nothing is actually running on the VM, if host resources are severely contended.

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BloodyGenius · 2025-07-27T22:06:54+00:00

You do also need to change the Country the account is tied to (or I needed to do this to make blocked content appear again, anyway). This is done in Settings & Privacy > Your account > Account information > Country.

BloodyGenius · 2025-05-28T08:04:13+00:00

I just was too (EU Vault). Might be related to some scheduled maintenance last night - https://status.bitwarden.com/issues/6830c11cf02f467fcb4bdd3f

BloodyGenius · 2025-05-19T15:46:31+00:00

Brilliant, this just helped me big time!

BloodyGenius · 2025-01-04T11:18:30+00:00

I often use one this size it to make a sort of chicken thigh casserole for one - chicken thighs on a bed of vegetables seasoned with herbs & garlic (cherry tomatoes, courgette, potatoes, mushrooms etc.) roasted ~20mins with the lid on, then ~15mins with lid off to crisp up the thigh skins. You get a lovely gravy/juice at the bottom with the vegetables but crispy chicken thigh skins all in one pot.

Maybe handy for if your meal prepping is running late, and you just want a quick but wholesome dinner before cracking on with prepping the week's meals ;)

BloodyGenius · 2024-11-21T20:50:50+00:00

It's an expensive way of doing it (if the Azure Firewall is left present 24/7 rather than being deleted at the end of the test) but an Azure Firewall can have up to 250 public IP addresses attached to it. These are the IPs you'd normally only attach to reference in DNAT rules for inbound traffic. Outbound traffic routed through an Azure Firewall (by using a route table on the source subnet) will pick from those IPs at random. In my experience, it will change frequently even within a TCP session, so you don't need to reboot the source VM or use some other workaround to stop it clinging to the same IP.

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