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Muse - Starlight[^]
A loyal SOTW follower is going to be very happy about this one (judging from his username) 
Spotify notified me about a new Muse single so I thought I'd check it out.
I listened to their Black Holes & Revelations album a lot in the past, although I thought it was from around 2012 and their last (it's from 2006 and there are a couple of more albums after that).
My bad, I've probably listened to it in 2006 as well and I actually know some songs from the album that followed in 2009 
Anyway, needless to say I haven't been listening to them a whole lot this past decade.
The new work didn't convince me, but I did put on this album again.
It's just their best album and Starlight is one of their best songs, if not their best!
So SOTW
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 Nice.
I saw your link to the The Cardigans - My Favourite Game during the week. Always get a chuckle at the end of the video.
// TODO: Insert something here Top ten reasons why I'm lazy
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yacCarsten wrote: I saw your link to the The Cardigans - My Favourite Game during the week.
Yeah, hearing that one was a nice surprise.
Been listening to some more Cardigans since then.
It's one of those bands you forget, but when you hear them you still know the lyrics
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Thanks for the mention, although I must admit this is a mid-tier track for me. I feel I have just slowly gone off it over the years. However, I am definitely happy to see Muse getting some love
I think there are some decent songs on the new album, certainly a step up from Simulation Theory. Although I do see a lot of the older fans not liking the newer stuff. I feel they have almost become a completely different band since when they first started, so it makes sense in that regard.
They do have a habit of winning people over with their live performances though. It's funny how hearing a song live can suddenly make you enjoy it more than you did before. I think Muse do that very well, as opposed to some bands I find can have the opposite effect when you hear them live.
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musefan wrote: I must admit this is a mid-tier track for me.
One of their most popular tracks according to Spotify 
musefan wrote: Although I do see a lot of the older fans not liking the newer stuff. I feel they have almost become a completely different band since when they first started
I feel they had a unique sound, which is now a bit more mainstream.
musefan wrote: They do have a habit of winning people over with their live performances though.
Coincidentally, I'm working over at a customer's today and they have the radio on. Apparently, you could win Muse tickets today as they're performing live in The Netherlands sometime soon.
musefan wrote: It's funny how hearing a song live can suddenly make you enjoy it more than you did before.
Yes, recently had that with Oranssi Pazuzu!
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Yep,
I like the things you post (and your YouTube videos), so I'd like to see you post more here on the forum.
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That is nice to hear, Randor. Since the last time, I've opened up what our ancestors meant with the 'three paths' of Anu, Enlil, and Ea, on Astrolabe B. That shines a new light on what Nibiru was (although I was on the right track before figuring out the paths). Now I'm finishing up the editing process on the book with this info in it, then I'll try to put together another video. So I've been a little too busy to do any programming, although I wanted to take a stab at reworking Blender, but VS still has an issue that makes me hesitate. And there is no money at the moment, either, so it will have to wait.
Hope all's well!
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PS - and by understanding the greater historic swing from polytheism to monotheism, as illuminated by other scholarship and including the Samson astronomy, we can finally say with certainty that the Moses tale came into its current monotheistic form after 580 BC, as a response to the Babylonian Exile. It was probably crafted from the other Moses personalities of those times, although there may have been a Moses figure in Israelite history at the 'hub of the wheel.' My last question has finally been answered.
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David O'Neil wrote: AronChupa, Little Sis Nora – Hole in the Roof
Great video
For a moment I thought they sampled Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)[^].
I don't think it's a sample, but it sounds exactly the same.
David O'Neil wrote: And one that's been mentioned before: AronChupa, Little Sis Nora - I'm an Albatraoz.
If I started the SOTW about a year earlier this one would've been on it for sure
Very nice tracks, must listen to more AronChupa!
Somehow I never did after Albatraoz.
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Nobody here is dumb; you're all a bunch of damned geniuses. So I want to pose a question to you all that is entirely outside of your field of expertise. I'm told that this sort of exercise helps to maintain one's mental acuity, so I'm probably helping you to keep your jobs. In a nutshell (or ballsock, if Michael Martin is tuning in), I've got a bit of a mystery going on at my house. I'm swapping out an old water heater, and I have the entire thing disconnected and out of the house. Yet, when I open a hot water tap any place in the house, I get a surge of water flow, then a slow trickle of water. So far as I know, the hot water side of the circuit gets its pressure from the hot side outlet of the water heater. That line is disconnected and capped. Additionally, the hot line is also capped. Where does this unexpected pressure/flow originate? The mind boggles...
Will Rogers never met me.
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Treat it like a code bug: gather information.
What temperature is the water? How does that compare to the cold supply?
How long does it take to "build up pressure" again?
Does the pressure in the line seem the same upstairs and downstairs?
Not saying I know what the problem is (the US approach to water / house heating is different to UK) but debugging is debugging ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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OriginalGriff wrote: (the US approach to water / house heating is different to UK)
I suspect anywhere is different to the UK when it comes to plumbing.
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Even the UK is different. 
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I've heard this:
Why don't the British refrigerate their beer?
British wiring.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I would suspect that one of your faucets is leaking between the hot and cold side.
Assuming you have modernish single grip faucets that is.
If you have old fashioned faucets with separate knobs for hot and cold, this is obviously not the case.
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Nailed it! The other single-handle valve in the house is the second shower/bath. Adjusting the temperature setting on it changed the flow rate of the dripping from the faucet, even though that valve appears to be working perfectly. Unfortunately, this place is 40 years old, and replacing that unit will be nearly impossible.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Perhaps the surge of flow is coming from the column of water standing in the vertical pipe corresponding to each tap / faucet. Once that column of water has come out, it becomes a trickle.
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somewhere a cold water pipe or mixer is leaking into the hot...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Quite so! If there is no pressure in the hot pipe, when you open a mixer tap in a 'mix' position, then cold water will also flow into the hot pipe until the pressure equalizes. The logical test is to be punctilious about making sure all mixer taps are opened only in the 'cold' position, and see if the problem goes away.
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My guess would be a shower/tub valve. They are a single cartridge with a design that would allow crossover to occur if one of the gaskets on the cartridge is bad. Could also be a defective temperature balancer on a newer shower.
Turn each shower valve to full hot and give it a few minutes. You might check a sink after a while leaving the shower open on hot. Just like programming, see if you get a different result.
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Quote: Not A Programming Question
Plumbing questions are a lot like programming questions.  There's usually a leak, stuff that doesn't fit well together, bad documentation, and usability issues.
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The investment you make in your skills also follows a similar pattern to financial investments, i.e. high risk equals high reward.
In 1995, if you had told me to invest my skills in this little known language called Java by a small company called Sun Microsystems, I'd have rebutted you saying you've probably had a few drinks too many! Who would have thought Java will be used to write just about anything (including mobile apps) some day?
On the other hand, had the "risk taker" in me had jumped on the Blackberry development in 2010 or Windows Phone development in 2015, his career would have failed quite miserably!
Similarly, had the "risk averse" buddy chosen something like COBOL or C in 1995, he'd probably still have a low paying job to stick with for several years to come.
From that perspective, what do you make of the current technologies like Java and Python and PHP? And what about all the JavaScript frameworks (React, Vue, etc.) and the Node/NPM ecosystem? Where do you see all of this going?
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