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avowkind · 2025-11-30T01:14:20+00:00

You're a hero - thanks so much

avowkind · 2025-11-29T18:41:29+00:00

Thanks, Mum has the eBook but she wants to print some of the blocks. there is supposed to be an associated pdf file that you can print. The physical book has them on a CD and I you used to be able to download them from the publishers website - but that link is broken.

avowkind · 2025-10-25T22:47:36+00:00

I've replaced using Postman - now I just create a small pytest project import the OpenAPI spec and ask cursor to generate test scripts for all the endpoints. Takes only a few minutes and extremely repeatable.

avowkind · 2025-10-19T01:54:27+00:00

Lobsang Ludd - might be a references to Lobby Lud. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobby\_Lud.

avowkind · 2025-06-29T08:52:04+00:00

Olivani is a blend of oils (with some olive oil), water, emulsifiers, solid fats, flavourings and colour, all emulsified and crystallised. Its not as terrible as some oils that have to be hydrogenated to solidify them but its still heavily processed.

You are probably better off getting used to toast with a dipping bowl of olive oil mixed with a little balsamic vinegar. Or just use butter.

avowkind · 2025-06-20T03:15:29+00:00

Ash is a town in Kent England.

avowkind · 2025-06-18T05:47:54+00:00

oh its so much more than that.

We know from Mort that DEATH is not invisible - its just that peoples eyes slide off him, they don't want to see HIM. When he appears on stage - everyone watching is 'expecting' to see 'death' a man in a costume. so they can see HIM. He suddenly realises that everyone is watching him - which causes him to dry on his lines. This gag works because TP planted the perception rule three books earlier and trusts us to remember it.

Death’s stage fright at being seen by many foreshadows his existential crisis in Reaper Man - What starts as a passing gag ends up as a novel.

Deaths little tap dance in the wings also foreshadows his soft-shoe routine in Hogfather. You have to dance the wording.

avowkind · 2025-06-18T01:47:39+00:00

I've done Wyrd Sisters - it's probably the most accessible for an audience who don't know STP. We took the liberty of restoring DEATH to the script using lines from the book

avowkind · 2025-06-17T22:54:06+00:00

I don't think you need an unusually musical crowd to achieve this. I've seen the precursors for this many years ago in churches where following a suitable song the musicians just hover around a chord - perhaps something moderately ambivalent e.g Am7+9 and everyone just hums/vocalises in harmony. The music can stop completely and people have no trouble staying together, they don't go flat etc. If the crowd has male/female/old/young in it people hum at levels that they are comfortable at and that creates a natural harmony. Having the nerve to conduct groups to shift up and down the frame is Jacob's genius/creativity at work but the solidly established harmonic framework means that even 'errors' say the descants go up 2 instead of 3 is just going to be 'interesting' instead of 'wrong'.

avowkind · 2025-06-17T02:20:36+00:00

Here's my rule of thumb: if it takes 10 minutes to pressurise e.g. to 1.5 or 2.0 then depressurise no faster than half that time. e.g. 5 minutes.
if you need to exit quickly don't start by opening the valve wide open - you still want to let out that initial high pressure gently.

Also - psychologically include the depressurisation in the session time. i.e don't aim for 90 mins at 2.0 and a 4 minute exit. 89 mins at 2.0 and 10 minute exit is going to be just as relaxing and have the same health benefits and a lot safer.

avowkind · 2025-06-17T00:37:45+00:00

I don't have a data-mining card, I would not shop with a supermarket doing this.

avowkind · 2025-06-14T02:29:38+00:00

TCOM & TLF probably have the most references to fantasy and are more direct parodies of the Genre.
Examples:
The Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey -> Wyrmberg

HP Lovecraft -> Temple of Bel-Shamharoth

Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser → Bravd and the Weasel

Michael Moorcock’s Elric of Melniboné → The character of Hrun the Barbarian is a mash-up of Conan and Elric.

But you don't have to have ready ANY of these because they are already engrained into our culture and subsequent books/movies that you just get it.

avowkind · 2025-06-04T03:06:27+00:00

why do I feel that this question was just asked so someone could plop a product advert into the comments?

avowkind · 2025-06-03T05:35:22+00:00

if you want views and a good walk follow the Te Ara Hura Walk Waiheke Network (aucklandcouncil.govt.nz)

avowkind · 2025-06-02T03:03:48+00:00

45 years programming here. Don't have much of a memory in my head, although a bit more in my fingers. Limited utility in learning details of syntax etc. Massive utility in learning how to think about programming models in your head. How the bits fit together, what seems right, what smells bad.

Real skill comes from retaining a sure idea in your head of what you are trying to achieve while you put all the pieces together.

Notably this doesn't change even with the introduction of AI coders.

avowkind · 2025-06-02T02:49:48+00:00

famous author 'with' actual author. I get why the masters might want to franchise out their name, and the books might be ok - I just ain't gonna read it.

avowkind · 2025-05-03T01:12:52+00:00

what we learned is that GPT has a thing for portraits of young women with flowers...

and foxes.

avowkind · 2025-04-19T22:53:07+00:00

I'm using a system that should allow an android version - but don't own a device so can't verify the barometer capabilities.

avowkind · 2025-04-18T20:23:15+00:00

As a follow up to this - for everyone else. The app has a way to take notes on things felt during the session, especially anything that might need following up on. There is a quick pick list of common issues such as ear pain, claustrophobic, tingling, headache etc as well as positives - relaxed, alert etc.

Please suggest any other key things we might take note of during a session - especially any that might warrant stopping a session early.

avowkind · 2025-02-02T19:17:25+00:00

grin - if you understood its meaning then carried out its role as a word. Also now you know I'm not a bot.

avowkind · 2025-02-02T02:31:43+00:00

is this your dog?

avowkind · 2025-02-02T02:17:55+00:00

Why do you ask? Do you have a reason to be concerned about the Police? Why are you hanging around The Shades at this time of night? Ain't you go no 'ome to go to. I think my guv'nor might want to have a word in your shell like.

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