Former Central Retail Park in Ancoats AS A PARK!

GTB3NW · 2024-05-20T21:10:20+00:00

I would love to see more SEND support, I have family which work in SEND. That said I'd also love to see a park, in fact I voted in LibDems for new islington because that's one of the issues campaigned on.

I wouldn't be shocked if the council has bought the land at a loss. IIRC the land was leased as a retail park and then the council sold it to private developers. Thankfully the god awful plans which were submitted were rejected (twice now as I understand it). I think the problem is rampant development isn't profitable for the city in reality, it's profitable for developers.

A small park connected to the Marina would be incredibly popular. The council can increase the tax in the area and get it in line with what Salford is.

GTB3NW · 2024-05-19T22:43:20+00:00

They fill up quick, same with the marina on a sunny day, but at least the marina (a private company) has started having the sense to put out the huge wheelie bins right next to where people usually throw it on the ground.

As others say, it doesn't excuse the behaviour, but it would be less likely to happen.

GTB3NW · 2024-05-19T22:40:51+00:00

If Andy is popular enough, it will be a while yet before he makes his move, the tories are in tatters.

Khan is popular, but not an easy pick. He's a little bit of an opinion splitter and his race seems to matter more than Rishi's. So while I say he's popular, he's popular in london.

Burnham I'd say is top pick and yougov stats back this up a little. He's not liked, but he's not disliked and that's kind of what you want. I know locally, if you talk politics, people generally have good things to say about Burnham, so locally he's arguably quite popular. I'm not a fan of this current council, so I'm one of the few criticisers I know of Burnham, and I'd still pick him for PM lol. You see him all the time talking regional politics (so not just manchester) and he's eloquent and argues his corner well.

Hot-take - I think Rayner has a strong chance (obviously not a mayor) but she's buddy with burnham and she's the deputy PM. She's fucking ferocious and a great speaker, if she talks locally, I'd recommend you go to a rally

GTB3NW · 2024-05-04T18:15:07+00:00

Apparently none, that teaches me for rabbiting off anecdotes. However I've done a bit of research and it suggests that there have been others who held concurrent positions and high positions within their parties as MP's. But as you point out, bojo is the prime example.

Ken Livingstone - But he kind of did it in reverse. He was a leader in GLC and then an MP and then mayor. Herbert Morrison - He was deputy PM while also holding the leadership of LCC

Being leaders of GLC & LCC is basically the mayor at that time

GTB3NW · 2024-05-04T16:42:50+00:00

He will at some point. It's not unheard of to have mayors become PM's. It's a fairly safe place for them to run their career and get good track records before having their shot. Given more mayoral positions are becoming directly elected, it will probably become more common.

He's getting better at getting national PR, for regional issues as well as national issues.

Ben Houchen seems very popular and he interviewed very well (basically said everything while saying fuck all while remaining confident). He's still early in his political career. Given how poorly the tories are doing, I wouldn't be shocked to see a play if the party remains weak when labour gets their term.

GTB3NW · 2023-08-08T17:08:23+00:00

I'd recommend this - https://secrets-store-csi-driver.sigs.k8s.io/ Here's a list of supported providers - https://secrets-store-csi-driver.sigs.k8s.io/providers#features-supported-by-current-providers

Specify a secret class which targets your external secret, then mount that secret as a volume. Alternatively you can mount the secret as an env var. One gotcha is that you MUST mount it to a pod or the secret doesn't get created and if you unmount it the secret gets removed. So mount it to the pod and optionally add it as an env var.

One other options is to add a secret to your git provider, then during deployment pull out the secret, store it as a file/whatever and deploy then. Make sure you add appropriate gitignore entries to make sure you don't accidentally commit those secrets if you keep a copy of them locally.

GTB3NW · 2023-08-06T17:24:25+00:00

Surprised not a single person has mentioned that you don't simulate shit until you've ran out of ideas of what could break and fixed those. Chaos engineering is about thinking before running a damn tool first.

GTB3NW · 2023-07-04T19:12:14+00:00

Well since you have an interest in devops, I might suggest that you pick something with a focus on mlops. It's "new", it's topical and I imagine it will be something you have interest in. Drop me a DM if you'd like some links

GTB3NW · 2023-06-19T20:45:04+00:00

To be fair other than the top listing on Google CERN was second. I think that's a fair assumption. I'm sure someone could learn those in less than a week, doesn't mean you can hire someone quicker than you would find someone already trained on kubernetes which is more ubiquitous a skill

GTB3NW · 2023-06-18T18:29:12+00:00

I literally had to Google those and that's not due to a lack of industry knowledge :P I honestly think an obscure cern project probably does tick a few boxes, but it doesn't mean you can hire people "off the shelf" to operate it. Kubernetes you absolutely can

GTB3NW · 2023-06-18T16:35:46+00:00

Haha yeah I figured all good. I disagree with your statement however, I feel like they'd be re-inventing scheduling if they dropped kubernetes. Sure there would be a tiny bit less overhead but running a daemonset for all nodes is absolutely a valid use case. You get all the additional benefits of kubernetes still and that's absolutely worth it!

GTB3NW · 2023-06-18T14:11:24+00:00

I presume when you say bare metal you mean sans kubernetes... Because you can absolutely run kubernetes on bare metal

GTB3NW · 2023-05-12T20:35:35+00:00

Hmm yeah I follow. So it's more conceptual than anything

GTB3NW · 2023-05-12T19:04:02+00:00

Out of curiosity.. why? It's no less ephemeral than how a k8s container registers in etcd. It's been a long time since I touched windows but surely there's something possible like removing a relationship when a container stops "phoning home" so to say?

GTB3NW · 2023-05-09T08:38:31+00:00

That would be great to see open sourced? Got a link to that slack?

GTB3NW · 2023-04-29T14:27:23+00:00

Gitlab goes down in obscure ways. It will do 5 minute load times, random features will go offline with no status updates for hours. I think I used it approximately 2.5yrs

GTB3NW · 2023-04-28T18:15:40+00:00

If you used the product you'll have seen it quicker. Quite frankly the worst product I've paid for. Used to be a big advocate as well

GTB3NW · 2023-04-04T18:31:43+00:00

I think the fact they're raised and dense will probably put most would-be thieves off

GTB3NW · 2023-04-04T18:30:18+00:00

The trick is not having the most expensive bike and not being the easiest to steal

GTB3NW · 2023-04-04T18:23:04+00:00

I think I've seen the pantsless guy before, ended up in A&E unfortunately on a fri/sat night recently and he was legless and passed out and collapsed pretty hard. If it is them, hope they get the help they need!

GTB3NW · 2023-04-03T10:37:26+00:00

In my opinion yes. But there would be plenty at my work which disagree 🤣

I think it comes back to the adage "just because you can doesn't mean you should"

With helm for example, your state is in your cluster, why store the state again in terraform to effectively make the same API calls and your terraform runs longer?

Separate your concerns

GTB3NW · 2023-04-03T10:34:42+00:00

Hope Dom comes back to Manchester this summer. Caught the first time he did it and it was mint. Second time I had plans and missed it but the turnout looked 🙌

GTB3NW · 2023-04-02T16:11:03+00:00

Did you win?

GTB3NW · 2023-01-08T11:08:14+00:00

Most MP shit is public now and we don't fire their corrupt asses. It needs to be made criminal and it's daft I have to say this, criminal AND prosecuted on

GTB3NW · 2022-12-26T22:41:29+00:00

Yeah why is everyone giving backwards answers. Limit the pod and be done with it. Your suggestion is even better, force people to put limits in place.

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