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lentenmass

@lentenmass@deacon.social

#Anglican #Canadian Tech Guy. Trying my best to live a life of service.

Interested in engaging with other #Christian people, and all those willing to discuss life and things like it in good faith, with good cheer.

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lentenmass, to fediverse
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Hey . Let's crowdsource important medical decisions.

Doc wants me to try an called .

Anyone got an experience to share, good or bad? With this or any other drugs?

lentenmass,
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@ekknappenberger Man, I'm sorry you had to go through that. I admit my big concern is making a mild situation into a bad one. Thank you for sharing. I'm glad you're onto a better space now.

lentenmass, to bible
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The #Anglican tradition has a daily reading lectionary where you read 4 or so chapters each day and go through the NT 2-3 times in a year, and the OT once (depends on which lectionary you use.)

I've been doing this awhile, and had the habit down, but health made me focus on essentials for a time and I got behind for about a month.

In my catch-up phase, I decided to just treat the epistles as single-sitting readings.

And you know, I'll probably do this more often. There's value in chapter breaks, but honestly: if it's a two-page letter, it shouldn't take five days to read it (I'm looking at you 1 Peter.)

Anyway. Just stating the obvious: the #Bible is full of short stories and letters and small, concrete narratives. You should read them that way. That's how they were meant to be read!

lentenmass,
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@michael Even more: the letters would have been read in one go by many churches! Like the early tradition (before the Gospels were written) was to copy and share these letters around to encourage those of good faith. So an early church service in Ephesus would have had them reading the letter to the Philippians as well (and vice versa). But it would have been all in one go!

I love my tradition, but feel that there's a certain value that we lose by following a weekly lectionary of chopped-up scripture. I may reach out and offer to just read a letter or two. There's a dude I heard on a podcast that has a few books memorized and can just get up and perform them. That sounds like it would be valuable to me!

michael, (edited ) to php
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OhDear has apparently seen a very significant reduction in CPU usage when upgrading their PHP servers from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04:

https://ohdear.app/news-and-updates/reducing-phps-cpu-usage-by-nearly-40-by-upgrading-from-ubuntu-2004-to-2204

I wonder if others have seen similar effects?

lentenmass,
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@michael There have been significant performance improvements in the core PHP engine over the last four years. I don't think 20.04 was still using PHP 5.6, but if they were, that jump to 7.x was huge. The jump at 7.3 was big too, and the jump from 7.x to 8.x too.

Turns out, they can still wring blood from a stone sometimes.

lentenmass, to bible
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First assignment at school. I already put in my answer, but curious what y'all think:

Why should we study the Old Testament? What's the point? If someone you know asked why you're taking a course on the Old Testament, what would you tell them?

ekknappenberger, to random
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    @ekknappenberger But then where would I get all my hot takes with a side of history?

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    @ekknappenberger Woah woah woah... adding integrity back into the academic integrity process? This is too far. Way too far.

    lentenmass, to random
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    My wife just got inconclusive news from her doctor. Will need more diagnostic surgery in January to rule out the worst case scenarios. We'd appreciate for peace while we wait on the system to get the answers.

    lentenmass, to bible
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    Research finds that Jesus and Joseph were likely stone workers of some kind, rather than wood workers. So the received concept of Jesus the son of a Carpenter is not consistent with the original texts.

    And I find this a fascinating example of a maturing knowledge of the Word.

    When I was outside the faith, my biggest interactions were with those who held a belief that every word of the KJV was actual fact. Their world crumbled a little any time someone pointed out an inconsistency.

    As I've opened myself to the teachings of Christ, to read the Word for myself, and read between the lines to the original texts, I've seen a number of misunderstandings or misconceptions get clarified.

    But the biggest thing I've learned is that, simply, yes the is not consistent. Yet it's still true. It's true that it outlines the price paid for our salvation, and the steps we must take on our walk so that we can inherit the Kingdom and be part of the new Heaven and the new Earth.

    So sure. "Carpenter" maybe wasn't the right word, but that's okay. It's good enough to get to the important part of the good news.

    lentenmass,
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    @cleopas @ekknappenberger @davidmschell Actually, the Wikipedia article cited gives the view. It's there under Gospel References: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tekt%C5%8Dn#Gospel_references

    > Referencing ancient literature and recent archeological evidence, Robinson posits that the best translation for tektōn is "builder-craftsman."

    So yes, maybe not so much stone-mason, but more of "construction worker" than "builder of cabinetry" which is apparently what was in my head for decades.

    lentenmass, to random
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    Life has been busy! My application to Seminary/Bible College is still being processed. I'm aiming to start classes in January. Or maybe just class, singular, as it appears only one course I'm qualified to take will fit my work schedule. Been doing a lot of home reno/repair projects though. Gotta get to fixing up my office so that I have a place to study that is distinct from the place I do my day job (and the place I play games.) Thankfully it's a big room. Anyway: it's getting more real. Looking forward to it!

    spaceraser, to random
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    May be a silly question re: Architecture,

    Is there a theoretical reason why chips would have to be less powerful than chips, or is it a case of resource allocation? That the market for high end chips has been dominated by x86 so that’s where all the development lies? Or is there something useful/necessary about that larger instruction set that makes it useful to retain?

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    @spaceraser There's two different problems trying to be solved. To make a RISC platform like ARM more powerful, you have to increase clock speed. If you start adding instructions it stops being a reduced instruction set.

    With a CISC platform like x86 they can just keep adding more specialized pathways (instructions) so that with a single cycle can do more complex tasks.

    There are places like the fabrication process where both can fight the same fight (eg 7nm vs 10nm), but the core philosophy differences do give x86 a leg up on specialized tasks.

    lentenmass, to random
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    Hey team. Those of you who went through or are involved with admissions. I've got a few mini-essays to write for my application. Does theology grad school aim differently? Should I be writing as a reverent servant, ready for humble instruction? Or should I be going hard self-cheerleader like a cover letter or typical grad school application?

    Worried I might be tooting my own horn too much in what I've written so far. But also worried if I go too soft I'll get sidelined. Thoughts?

    lentenmass,
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    @ekknappenberger The first of six prompts is "What experiences have you had in Christian service? In what ways, if any, have they helped you grow in your faith and sense of vocation?"

    The others are on strengths, weaknesses, why are you even applying, why do you think you're ready, and what were your formative Christian experiences.

    I'm split evenly on whether this is a literacy test, a personal reflection to ensure you've thought about these things, or an actual metric in the evaluation.

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    @ekknappenberger I'm pretty sure that's the case here too. I already talked to an admissions officer. They're advertising 1:13 faculty to student ratios. Not exactly chasing the candidates off with sticks. Last time I taught a class in my own field, I had 35 students and the admin were actively reshaping the furniture to fit more dollars in the room.

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    @ekknappenberger @juanctorr3s His "How to be an Antiracist" was part of the diversity book club at work. 2020-21 was a... time.

    I thought the central premise was good: Racism doesn't get addressed by putting on blinders. You need to take positive action to balance the scales. At the end, though, it was an expansion of the three kids standing on boxes looking over the fence. It bears repeating but I'm surprised Kendi made a writing career out of it.

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    @ekknappenberger @juanctorr3s Just looked up the investigation.

    For sure he's one of those guys that got a little too close to the sun in his maiden flight.

    Doesn't surprise me at all that he's hard to work with and full of himself -- both from what I've read today and in reading his most famous book. Awful lot of money to have to answer for when your answer appears to be "uh, I guess we spent it."

    lentenmass, to random
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    This one always makes me look twice.

    "Elisha left Jericho and went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, a group of boys from the town began mocking and making fun of him. “Go away, baldy!” they chanted. “Go away, baldy!” Elisha turned around and looked at them, and he cursed them in the name of the Lord. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of them." (2 Kgs 2:23-24)

    42 is a lot of people to bully a stranger. And that was just the ones that got mauled.

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    @ekknappenberger Haha, truth. My father went and lived in England for about 8mo in '69. The guy turned 76 this year, and you'd think he lived in England for decades by how much that trip takes up his conversations.

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    got this text from a moderate liberal friend. this is a tough one. his daughter brings home a public school library book illustrated with explicit gay sex scenes.

    how is a parent who has warned a child against pornography supposed to respond when the state gives them access to this?

    i am against censorship, but this defies all common sense.

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    lentenmass,
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    @ekknappenberger Sure seems like a reasonable line to draw. Does the high school also stock the Kama Sutra? Playboy? Hustler? If not: what's the difference?

    Like yes, I believe everything should be available to adults. Even and especially the things I disagree with.

    But in a public library? In a school? Seems like someone made a mistake and should lose their job or at least reevaluate their purchasing policies.

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    It’s become increasingly popular to refer to the Old and New Testaments as the First and Second Testaments.

    What do you make of this development? Do you like it?? Do you see any problems with it???

    @theology

    lentenmass,
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    @orthoheterodox1 @theology At the risk of calling a spade a spade, it just seems like an intentional step away from tradition. For some that's good, but I find there's a trend where people want to pretend that we don't have two millennia of past worship and study to lean back on.

    Specific to this, though: In some spaces it also opens up the door for conversations about a third testament, which gets into validating some of the fringe groups that aren't theologically sound.

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