Fresh node, packages installed from the distribution repositories, and the kubelet will not come up. The service log says it failed to validate the service connection because the container runtime API version is not…
My cat is not especially affectionate, but when she does come for attention she purrs remarkably loudly and does not stop, sometimes for a long time. It made me wonder whether purring costs her anything. It is a…
The standard advice is that muscle is built during recovery, and that training the same thing every day without rest breaks you down rather than building you up. Military basic training appears to contradict this…
Almost every circuit in a car is protected by a fuse that has to be replaced once it blows. Household wiring moved to circuit breakers decades ago, and a breaker can simply be reset. Cars do use breakers in a few…
Uptime checks every minute, push straight to my phone. Last month it woke me three times: once real, the connection pool was exhausted and the app was properly down, and twice for blips that healed inside forty seconds…
with a submit button that also has an onClick wrapping the same action in . On wifi you never see it. On a throttled 3G profile I get two order rows about 40% of the time. And returns for the whole submit, so the…
Open any river on a mapping app and there is nothing indicating direction. The line is just a line. For a big river I might happen to know which end reaches the sea, but for a tributary in unfamiliar country I have no…
Sold a $290 annual plan to a small company in Germany. They emailed asking for a proper invoice showing my VAT number and their VAT number so their accountant can process it. I do not have a VAT number. I have a US…
I'm signed off for four weeks and the company has been decent about it. The problem is that what broke me is a manager who reassigns my work at 6pm and a team that's been two people short since January, and neither of…
Thinking about this after reading about diversions. A domestic flight is one where passengers may reasonably be carrying no passport at all a driving licence, a national ID card, or nothing. If that aircraft has to…
First house with a septic system, moved in eight months ago. The previous owner says he pumped it every five years and the neighbour says every two, and the county leaflet says three to five. Two adults, no garbage…
I have created some roles, a function, and granted various privileges across a schema. Now I would like an overview: for each role, everything it has been granted. The built in role listing shows attributes and…
Currently on pre ground supermarket bags and a french press, and I want to stop. Budget is genuinely $100 right now I am on a stipend, not being coy: and I would rather buy something adequate this month than something…
Someone explains a thing, I follow every step, it makes total sense and I feel the click. An hour later I could not reproduce a single line of it and I am back where I started. This happens with work concepts, with…
I was fixing something to a wall and the nail seems to have gone into a cable. Pulling it back makes the lights in the room go out; pushing it back in restores them. I have left it in place for now and I intend to get…
This may be an unusual problem. My partner photographs at ground level a great deal: lying flat in fields, on paths, at the edge of water, often very still for long periods waiting for light. The recurring issue is that…
Had the tank pumped for the first time since we bought the place, watched them empty it completely, and felt very smug about it. Lifted the lid nine days later out of curiosity and the liquid is nearly back up to the…
I bill $0.02 per completed task. My app writes a row to for each one and also posts a meter event to Stripe. For last month my table says 1,204,880 tasks. The meter summary says 1,133,090. That is 71,790 tasks, roughly…
410 active subscriptions between $19 and $49, roughly $11.4k MRR. Every month about $430 of invoices fail on the first charge. Automatic retries get back around $225 of it, so I am losing something like $205 a month…
I was playing with a molecular model kit and built a four membered carbon ring where every carbon was double bonded to the next one all the way around. It went together fine physically, which I took as some kind of…
Each user gets a digest email at 8am in their own timezone. Currently a single cron at midnight UTC loops the user table and enqueues 40k jobs, which pins the database for about twenty minutes and makes the app…
I decided to start commuting by bike. The route is about 7 km and the mapping app suggested around 25 minutes. In practice it takes me closer to 45 and I arrive genuinely exhausted, which is not what I expected from a…
Eight to ten a week that say something went wrong with an attached screenshot of a red box, no browser, no account, no steps. Every one turns into two days of back and forth to find out they were on a phone the whole…
Fresh Windows machine. I followed the documented steps to set up the Linux subsystem and then tried to install a distribution, and it fails with error code 0x80370114 and nothing else useful. The subsystem itself…
I picked up the second remote role last March, both W 2, roughly $94k and $61k, US. I never touched the W 4 on either one and it turns out each payroll withheld as if it was the only income I had, so April was a…