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The UK Government, for all its faults, is pretty good at publishing contracts it has awarded. That's why I get depressed when I see rage-bait nonsense about how companies have been award "Top Secret" deals. Right now you can go to...
TL;DR Link to heading A private GKE cluster’s outbound traffic to *.googleapis.com and *.pkg.dev flows through Cloud NAT by default and pays $0.0385/GB data processing on every byte, in both directions. The GCP UI says “Private Google...
I met Abi at Charlie’s 40th last week. She’d just bought a new Canyon Aeroad and asked me to help her build it. Was a pleasure! Such a rad little bike!
The usual string theory hype machine in action: to celebrate a PRL publication, a university press office puts out a press release full of hype with a highly misleading title (“string theory is uniquely derived from basic assumptions...
Phone worshippers, Iceland, October/November 2025 (click to embiggen): When I first went to Iceland (March 2000) people had flip phones that they would text on: tap-tap-tap, send, and snap! Ten years later iPhones were becoming more...
The latest offering from isolarii, the unique publishing venture that produces small—think palm-sized—“island books” that feature the work of novelists, scientists, artists, theorists, and philosophers and others. But don’t let the small...
Unreliable times these are… Ref: https://ibbi.gov.in/uploads/auction_notice_liquidation/2024-09-27-133009-j623r-e639df612625659c3d53a7e7014df0c1.pdf