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Calling the name on government records “real”, rather than the name by which people are widely known, the name they chose for themselves and built a career on, is a sickening obeisance to the State. – “What is Real?” True principles and...
TL;DR: A common haproxy-in-front-of-redis-sentinel setup will cascade-restart its haproxy pods during sentinel failover if the kubernetes liveness probe checks backend health. The probes need splitting: liveness reflects process...
Editor’s note: Our Mind Upon Mind series is a nod to a 1937 Chips from the Chisel column (also featured in “Honest Labour: The Charles H. Hayward Years”), in which Hayward wrote, “The influence of mind upon mind is extraordinary.” The...
A review of the overnight sleeper train service from Hanoi (Vietnam) to Nanning (China). The Hanoi to Nanning train is the only international service from Vietnam, and one of the few international train services in Southeast Asia. There...
Last Solar Opposite 🎨 - I drew these last night while I really enjoy how they all have simple forms which are recognisable. I tried to add my own dirty shading and textured line art to them all while being as faithful as possible to the...
Remember a while back when I wrote about how great it is to have tits? This week’s blog post is on a similar theme, but with a different incredible body part. It’s a post I have desperately, eagerly, fervently hoped someone might write,...
I love quasicrystals—like crystals, but with patterns that never repeat, like Penrose tiles. But they’ve very rare in nature. They’re created only in the most exotic and violent events: a high-speed collision of asteroids, lightning...
The 15 Minute City Score Europe Map shows how easy it is for people in European cities to reach everyday services - such as shops, schools, healthcare, parks, and public transport - within a 15-minute walk. Each colored dot on the map...
A FUNNY SHOW HAPPENENED ON THE WAY TO THE COLISEUM Ancient Greece is suffering drought and near-famine, and on a small island (population 16 and a half) prayers to Dionysius (“Dionysus, end this crisis!”) are getting … Continue reading →
I’ve been rooting around in The Cupboard Of Mystery this week and getting rid of stuff that’s not useful any more (giving away, selling or taking to the recycling). But what do you do with gadgets like this? OK, the MP3 Sony Walkman is...