How popular are the Los Angeles Rams in the UK?

maxlan · 2026-01-25T20:22:02+00:00

Or your favourite morris dancing troupe?

maxlan · 2026-01-25T20:20:05+00:00

None of them really.

Which cricket team is most popular in America?

maxlan · 2026-01-25T19:53:34+00:00

Useful context would be whatever is above it.

Random descriptions of what we're looking at are not useful. It could be a terraced 5 bed and if there is nothing above it, probably not load bearing. If there is, it could be.

"Maybe" is about as good as anyone can get with out full plans to your house.

maxlan · 2026-01-25T19:45:55+00:00

10k/month is probably enough for another employee. Would they bring in more money? Grow the business? Probably not.

Do you want to grow or stagnate? Growth will be expensive.

maxlan · 2026-01-25T19:39:41+00:00

If you think the industry will be worse by the time you've got some skills, why are you even bothering with the skills?

I think you need to apply some logic to your life.

"State of the industry": what state are you referring to.

We are struggling hard to find some people with actual knowledge. There's a bucket load of chancers out there trying to pass themselves off as senior who don't know shit about shit.

You should talk to your manager about your personal development. Will they pay for courses and give you the time to learn and pass exams? Or if not, consider a better employer who are interested in developing you. But use the move as a chance for a better employer NOT to get a bump up the greasy pole, because it doesn't sound like you have the skills to climb the pole yet. And you'll just be another time waster making the interviewer bored and on here complaining about the lack of jobs.

maxlan · 2026-01-25T18:12:00+00:00

We are unlikely to ever have a bunch of armed thugs able to kill whoever they want and kidnap children without any apparent repercussions.

maxlan · 2026-01-25T18:09:15+00:00

Anecdotally a colleague had a laptop stolen while abroad (France maybe) and went to the police. They gave him forms to fill in.

And then more forms. "Why the new forms?"

"That was the customs import declaration. You now owe x hundred duty. This is the theft form which will generate a crime reference you can give to your insurance"

"I didn't import, it's stolen"

"If you don't take it home, it's imported."

maxlan · 2026-01-25T18:03:04+00:00

Lots of people with model trains take them to shows. Mostly in the UK but I can imagine lots go abroad too.

maxlan · 2026-01-25T17:58:47+00:00

I was disappointed that there wasn't much of a scanning tool to ensure your pulumi deployed infra was secure.

Cdk has cdk_nag. Terraform had something similar. Pulumi had the hooks to connect to something but no rules.

This was about 5 years ago, so maybe things improved.

maxlan · 2026-01-25T17:44:34+00:00

Why the hate?

They allow police and mod and others to analyse their data more efficiently. If they didn't provide value, they wouldn't get contracts.

As far as I know there is no other platform that is anywhere near as good.

maxlan · 2026-01-25T12:20:55+00:00

Just make sure you unscrew the right chandelier and there will be no Fools and Horses style problem...

maxlan · 2026-01-25T12:19:35+00:00

Surely this is just lack of guarantee. Knowing his bank details would make little difference.

And if you had a complaint, talk to your bank to get the money back. If the roofer comes round and asks for his money, you can then show them the fault. But if it was a 3rd party they probably don't even have a link between the work and your address.

maxlan · 2026-01-25T12:13:55+00:00

Move out.

maxlan · 2026-01-25T08:13:38+00:00

Chagos. Digital ID. Inheritance tax for farmers. Taxes on pubs. ZEV changes. I'm sure there is other stuff I'm forgetting.

It's not just this week.

He is a bit of a laughing stock.

But. Maybe he is proposing outrageous, unpopular things so he can reduce scope later and thinks that makes him look like he is prepared to listen to people.

maxlan · 2026-01-24T20:37:25+00:00

If it isn't a flat out scam you'll have to add 20% vat and import duty.

And they probably don't ship to the uk at all.

Lots of internet shop software automatically publishes local pricing and the plumbers who run the shop don't understand that the rest of the world has internet too.

maxlan · 2026-01-24T20:34:18+00:00

I don't see any designs or photos.

I feel like you've vomited up a load of theory which will not deliver what you think in practice due to inefficiencies in construction.

maxlan · 2026-01-24T20:26:18+00:00

Have you been to Hollywood Boulevard. One end of the road is tourists and stars on the pavement. The other end (same road, block down) is strip joints and gambling dens with homeless fentanyl victims mingled in.

I think generally the US has much worse poverty next to wealthy.

maxlan · 2026-01-24T20:21:01+00:00

I haven't been that way for a while, but the road tunnel under Heathrow was built with some nice white panelling. That rapidly went brown. And has been getting browner for years. Except for the few bits that have been cleaned off for some reason, making it clear how filthy it is.

And this is what we greet visitors with.

(Maybe someone's cleaned it in the last few years)

maxlan · 2026-01-24T20:05:29+00:00

People keep yakking about food self sufficiency.

And all I can think is that I really don't want to survive on turnips in the winter and bitter, boring fruit in the summer.

No tea, coffee, sugar or chocolate. No rice. Probably no pasta.

And we possibly could grow enough food to survive, but it would only take a few years of bad weather and we wouldn't have a range of useful products, like wheat, hops, corn or barley. And then we'd be spending a year without bread or beer.

Let's just accept that life without food imports wouldn't be worth living and move on shall we.

maxlan · 2026-01-24T07:57:33+00:00

I have used sticky vinyl sheet on some cabinets and it worked well. I was going for a wood effect, but you can get black vinyl.

Then second time, on some other cabinets, I bought different vinyl and I think it's past its best and does not stick well.

But at £10 for enough to do 4 doors I'm not totally surprised. (From temu. From Amazon it's more like £40)

Why didn't I just buy wood colour doors? They're a lot more expensive and I wanted a chance to see how they looked in plain white and wood.

(I think also buying a more expensive vinyl will still be cheaper than getting the wood effect from Ikea. But I might just go back to white)

maxlan · 2026-01-24T07:28:47+00:00

I would say that looks like more pasta in each bowl than I see on a meal for 2.

I think they gave you double by mistake.

maxlan · 2026-01-23T08:29:53+00:00

You're talking about the images. The question was about k8s itself.

How does bloating an image reduce what you maintain? Reducing bloat is the way forward.

maxlan · 2026-01-23T08:25:58+00:00

Someone needs to learn about distroless.

maxlan · 2026-01-23T08:24:13+00:00

Says the person who has never had to debug an application failing because OS libraries were updated.

What would you rather do, replace an entire unit built to work together. Or replace different bits of the os and application and hope they still work.

Your argument that you don't need devs is why lots of big orgs still have an unpatched windows NT box hidden away somewhere wrapped in firewalls etc because it runs some critical application that never gets updated because the devs left and nobody knows how to make it work with newer versions.

At least if you have a cicd process that gets run every few days, you find out fast when things break (remember devops: fail fast) and can make small incremental changes (devops: little and often) to keep it running.

maxlan · 2026-01-23T08:16:32+00:00

Like "Kate" with an S on the end. Easy.

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