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It eventually got bulldozed by multiple attempts of normalizing over Go practices, which essentially leave you on your own whenever it comes to operational aspects of the development cycle, and then containerization took over and the whole pipeline was voided of ways to do the nice stateful thing that saves everyone hours of rollouts and draining and reconnection storms with state losses.
A Pipeline Made of Airbags
ferd.ca
Imagine we want to compute the square root of a number n. The basic idea of [*Heron’s method*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methods_of_computing_square_roots#Heron's_method), named after the mathematician and engineer, Heron of Alexandria, is to find a number g that is close to and to then average that with the number n/g, which corrects for the fact that g either over- or underestimates .
Estimating Square Roots in Your Head
Gregory Gundersen
WHAT’S THE BENEFIT OF TURNING NUCLEAR WASTE INTO GLASS?
In the glass matrix, the HLW is highly impervious to separation. If a geological repository were to be flooded and the stainless steel canisters breached, the water would be incapable of leaching out the HLW from the glass matrix.
Glass Act: The Coanda Effect and Why We Transform Nuclear Waste Into Borosilicate Glass. — The Prepared
theprepared.org
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