Alex

“Kubernetes never kills pods just because the cluster administrator wants their disk space back.”
― Marko Luksa, Kubernetes in Action

“The conclusion I draw from the writings in this anthology, then, is finally this. That the overwhelming majority of attempts to supplant the postmodern consist in large measure of attaching a new prefix to the word 'modern' strikes me as a clear indication that we are not yet done
with our modernity; and that such a number of new prefixes are being mooted (such as 're-' and 'dis-'; 'alter-' and 'auto-'; 'hyper-' and "meta-'; 'ana-' and 'digi-'; you might also have come across 'geo-' and
'neo-', too? suggests to me that there is a broadening variety of ways in which we experience or negotiate our modernity - or, alternatively, a broadening awareness that there is, and probably always has been, a variety of modernities. It was always simplistic to assume that for some reason they all came to an end suddenly, whether that was in May
1968, or when the Pruitt-Igoe housing project was dynamited, or at any other time. By the same token, it is no more sensible to assume that some new modernity was born when the Berlin Wall fell, or when American Airlines flight 1 crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, or at some other arbitrarily selected moment of historical significance. Instead, ti might be worth suggesting that - with a nod to Bruno Latour - we have never been postmodern. Hence, I predict that debating the end of postmodernity will ultimately prove futile, but no more and no less futile than debating its origins and its birth. What the newly prefixed modernisms to be found in this anthology suggest to my mind is that what supplants postmodernity is a realization that we never left modernity behind in the first place, and that the discourses seeking to formulate or describe the late twentieth century as an era that was somehow (though there was never much clarity as to h o w 'post-'modernity amount to little more than half a century of groping down a blind alley.”
― David Rudrum, Supplanting the Postmodern: An Anthology of Writings on the Arts and Culture of the Early 21st Century

“The suction of transpirational pull places water under tension in the
xylem of an actively transpiring plant. Thus, when stems are cut, air is
drawn into the exposed vessels and blocks the flow of water. In the garden,
flower stems should always be cut longer than desired, and recut to the correct
length while holding the stems under water. If the stems are then
quickly transferred to a vase, the transpiration stream continues uninterrupted,
without the blossoms wilting. Scissor-type pruning shears or a
sharp knife should be used to make clean cuts so the ends of the xylem vessels
remain open.”
― Brian Capon, Botany for Gardeners

“When we say that cage-free egg production costs only 10% to 20% more to produce at the level of retail (not farm) prices, we are assuming that the same distribution system is used for cage and cage-free eggs. When both cage-free and cage eggs are sold, it likely costs more to distribute cage-free eggs. The cage-free sector is small, prohibiting them from realizing the economies of scale enjoyed by the cage egg sector.
Also, they are often different types of eggs. Studies have shown that about half of this 57% pre- mium charged for cage-free eggs is due to the fact that cage-free eggs tend to be brown eggs instead of white eggs. Consumers value brown eggs more, and stores have learned that when they bundle brown eggs with a cage-free production system they can charge particularly high prices. Moreover, cage-free eggs are often targeted to more affluent consumers and come in more elaborate packaging. In economics, this is referred to as price discrimination, and grocery stores probably charge a higher premium for cage-free eggs partly because they can.”
― Bob Fischer, The Routledge Handbook of Animal Ethics