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I've never heard a single good thing about Azure, and now that I have to work
with it I understand why.

The most egregious thing (for now) was an Auto Scale failure. For an entire
business day the autoscaler failed to spin up VMs which effectively killed our
product for the day. We could not scale manually either. No logs, no errors,
absolutely no idea what happened. Support tried to convice us for an entire
month that it was our own fault for misconfiguring the autoscaler by quoting
the documentation that was saying another entirely different thing.
After insisting for a month the issue was finally escalated to someone who
could read the logs and immediately see what went wrong: they had run out of
VMs and could not scale up.

So we have :

1. Unreliable services, breach of SLA.

2. Zero ability to anticipate, prevent, debug, or ensure the problem will not happen again.

3. Incompetent support lacking basic reading abilities trying to gaslight me.

4. An obvious issue that should have raised alarms long before it arose.

Thanks Azure.

This week I spend half a day trying to understand why Azure would not create an
Application Gateway using a configuration that was identical to another one we
had already (do _not_ attempt Azure without Terraform).
Turns out it was another outage with absolutely no way to know it.
Best part is the official fix: "Please, retry in case of failure during
the deployment." It takes 30 minutes to create said resource before it enters a
failed state. XKCD 303 applies.
Total surveillance doesn't have to be a bad thing, if it can only be accessed through a court order in order to be used for solving a crime or as evidence in court.

However, I can only see this happening in very developed and transparent democracies. Otherwise it is most likely gonna be abused in every way it can.

Serbia already leans towards being a police state, at least in comparison to other European states, so that would just make the situation there worse.
Very cool. Thanks for the pointer. Greg Egan is one of my top favorite SF authors, but I hadn't stumbled across those works yet.
Any string, does not apply to brave so not a seemingly a webkit issue
Isn't it better to persist medical data on the device rather than putting it on Apple's servers?
Big pharma exploits people's fear of death or even being deadly ill.

Big Oil exploits our society's need to transport essential goods and to enable commuting to and from work. If you don't work, you don't eat and thus you die.

Big Tech - aka social media / advertising - exploits our need to be connect with other people and to be "respected".

If you consider Maslow's Pyramid, Big Tech is always going to play a lesser role than the other two.

NB it's "little tech" that actually enables the essential flow of information. But when you look at FAANG, they are all about advertising and entertainment. None of them directly provide essential services.
From some bugs (or serious consequences in fact) they do, don't they?
Yeah you were mistaken, it's a full stack design. They recommend https://github.com/wilkerlucio/pathom for the connection. It's GraphQL done right, you write data "resolvers" on the backend, you declare very flexible graph queries on the front end -> this populates client DB and then fulcro uses that to render frontend.

Highly recommend reading through this section: https://book.fulcrologic.com/#FullStack
> In my understanding they receive the full source code of an app for review

I did not know that, is that even legal that Apple gets to look at your IP.
A book needs to be read 10-15 times in order to internalize it. Otherwise, when you're in the moment, you'll forget and revert to your usual pattern.
That's good to hear. It's not that I believe that they won't work, but because I didn't need such setup. I use a desktop PC as my main battlestation and I use a Xonar D2X on that (over PCIe), and it works beautifully, so I didn't need anything else.

For the Raspberry Pi, I needed something tidy, like this box. My father gave his HiFi system to me due to space constraints, but kept a nice set of speakers, so I needed something comparable in clarity, in absolute smallest and sturdiest package. HiFiBerry allows me to do that.

Moreover the software is co-developed with Bang & Olufsen, and it's extremely polished, like the hardware itself. My setup is pretty lean, but HiFiBerry can do some serious stuff like B&O self-tuning and custom DSP filters for sound shaping (for room, for taste, for fun).

My setup is as follows:

- Raspberry Pi 4/2GB.

- HiFiBerry AMP2 [https://www.hifiberry.com/shop/boards/hifiberry-amp2/]

- Steel case for Pi4 + AMP2 [https://www.hifiberry.com/shop/cases/steel-case-for-hifiberr...]

The result is a literal black box with power in and speakers out. I added a SanDisk Fit USB drive for local music storage. It can run spotifyd, AirPlay 2, direct BT, local files and more. It packs a decent punch, runs cool, can be used from anywhere (runs a webapp on a server, advertised with mDNS). If there's an update, it installs and reboots automatically.

Set & Forget, at its finest.
You can not beg for forgiveness if you don't have a formal approval to allow your changes into the product. In multi-team environment it's impossible to push your code into production if you aren't aligned with the rest of organization. There are all types of gatekeeping and quality checks that prevent from any cowboy action. Most of the time that's for good, and sometimes it hurts, because of different views, mindsets and experience of people who are taking those decisions.
Serbia is far from a dictatorship. Otherwise these propositions wouldn't be met with internal outrage that influences the progression of the law.
given the 0-days, it's not just apple scanning your phones
Maybe some people don't remember or is was before their time, but for many many years, you could not actually own your own phone. You had to lease your phone from the phone company. It was not until the Carter Phone decision that paved the way and forced the phone company (Bell Telephone / AT&T, not Today's AT&T) to allow someone to attach their own device to the Phone companies lines. The Carter phone was one of the earliest modems and it was not even electrically connected to the wires it was acoustically coupled. But really they just did not want people using their network that way. The network design was based on a average holding time of 2 minutes per call, but once people started using it to transmit data between computers and people or between computers, the holding times went through the roof forcing them to spend a lot of capital to keep up with the demand. Maybe the analogy is more similar to wireless carriers that lock their phones ?

I am not sure there are any exact analogies here to Google or anyone else. The phone company was, prior to 1984, considered a natural monopoly and was given special exception from antitrust laws. Google is in no way considered a natural monopoly, although some could argue that the DoJ looks the other way just a little bit when it comes to some of the Tech giants, I will leave that argument to others to hash out. But in no way are they sanctioned to the degree that the Telephone companies were in the early days in my view.
The Health app stores all this data and third party apps can ask to record to this database.
Clearing cache was sufficient enough for me to launch Chrome and quickly close the tab.
Apple doesn't get your app's source code when reviewing it, they just receive the binary.
Yeah, they should get back to raising awareness of electronic freedom issues.
> literal whipping

They were "literal" reins, not whips, and nothing yet indicates any "whipping" was happening. The reins are standard horseback riding tools and were used for that purpose. The Whitehouse just spoke with press after their evaluation of the details. They say CBP won't be using horses anymore. That's it, because it was bad optics.
agree tho, always run of the mill hobby project or well established old thing posted because they use rust. big woop, its the only language that gets this tier of fetishism
It is not a dictatorship, at worst it is authoritarian, and at best a it is broken democracy.
Some parts of the government are better, some are worse.
My bet is URL parser with insufficient tests.

It is well known that URLs are hard; nobody should ever trust their own implementation of a URL parser unless it is sufficiently tested (payload repositories exist for a reason).
You can easily shoot yourself in the foot in any language.
Those are donors who have given over $1k. AIUI the vast majority of the wikimedia's money comes from small individual donations
Apple's entire bug reporting system has always been massively dysfunctional. It is little surprise this extends to their handling of externally reported security issues as well.
I spent a day tracking down obscure module dependency issues just two days ago because of systemd. It's always a good sign when the thing doesn't work with an After= graphical.target, but did with a multi-user.target and a 2 s sleep before the executable was called. I've got idea why, and found debugging it really obtuse.
Have you ever noticed that most books seem to be the same size? Book publishers manage this by:

1. adjusting the paper thickness

2. adjusting the font size

3. adjusting the line spacing

4. adjusting the margins

5. adding blank pages

The actual amount of text in a book varies dramatically.
QuickJS' base memory usage is somewhere around ~200KB, it's not really targeted at embedded devices. When you have 8-64KB of RAM you're better off running Elk, Duktape in low memory mode, or other engines developed specifically for this purpose like Espruino/JerryScript.
> You don't usually see e.g. windowmakers or installers coming up with windows in the shapes of superellipses because square windows are already solved, or stoves coming with integrated fridges because "just an oven and a top" is already solved.

Well, actually you do. You'd be surprised. Let's ignore for now that there are different window makes and models. There has been a transition from custom-made windows to ready-made windows, whose production cost is higher but the total cost ends up being low because you can have a crew drop by in a construction site and get it done in a few minutes.

Then there's the current progresses in energy efficiency, and also fancy gizmos like actuators and sensors and all kinds of domotics.

Then there's security systems embedded into windows, which further adds sensors and networking and actuators.

You're now far beyond your mom and pop's windows.

And progress ain't done yet. We're starting to see self-dimming windows and also self-cleaning windows.
I meant full duplex ;-) sorry guys for the confusion, I'll correct !
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Yeah I'm a bit in the all year DST crowd. I'd rather have sun at 4pm than at 8am in the winter as in the morning I'd generally either be snoozing or commuting by something motorized where the dark doesn't matter much.
I mean, instead of running your code with FaaS, you deploy it in microservices, taking care yourself of running it in containers and all the container orchestration. So, yes, microservices was probably not the right term, I meant compared to handling all the container orchestration and deployment yourself.
The Share foundation posted about it as well: https://www.sharefoundation.info/en/draft-withdrawal-a-step-...
Having worked at a competing Chinese smartphone brand, I can say that there exists legal requirements for controlling content (i.e. yellow and political content as well as mentions of competitors) that is published on your own platforms. This is mainly a legal requirement for the Chinese market, with added on requirements from in-house legal teams, and this get applied on overseas markets when launching a piece of software there.

It is much more likely that it is basically just a list of words and phrases. The in-house content security system we had was extremely rudimentary, especially in languages other than Chinese.
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also consider that you need the CPU to be compatible and this is where the innovation struggles to be implemented in real life.
Thanks. Such an unexciting topic. Right? Apple and privacy.
Who cares? Nobody.

What about MXX ultra-mega processors, they are life saving and worth reading million articles with rumors and speculations.
Like any analogy you will love it or hate it depending on your starting position on Google's practices. I hated the format though, good dialogue is hard to write, just make your points simply and directly.
u must have missed reading this : ".. Microsoft or Google: both seem responsive and eager to fix within 90 days (mostly) .."

but then u not need to read it. and who would given all the exquisite experiences with M$ and/or Goo compared to nightmares Apple delivers to u, overpriced, ofc

in a sense it is good reading tho after all in that it indicates that exactly those are not the one's one does meet in Apple-communities
I have literally never heard anyone say that. IMessage is a nice thing to have, but other than the blue bubbles has almost zero effect on communications. SMS text messages work fine and are free. Same for WhatsApp and FB Messenger.
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I enjoyed Vinge's future history:

> Take the Traders' method of timekeeping. The frame corrections were incredibly complex - and down at the very bottom of it was a little program that ran a counter. Second by second, the Qeng Ho counted from the instant that a human had first set foot on Old Earth's moon. But if you looked at it still more closely ... the starting instant was actually about fifteen million seconds later, the 0-second of one of Humankind's first computer operating systems.
> The puzzle is why the EU doesn't have dominant industries

It has - cars, industrial automation and finance.
How Lotus is going to build lightweight electric sports cars
Stoping his stupid and useless space race with his billionaires friends would certainly work better to have a positive effect for the environment.
My problem with it is that once you have total surveillance it is hard to get rid of. And even if I trust the current goverment, do I trust the next?
Clickbaity title. It says

> Under no circumstances should you leave a laptop powered on and in any sleep/hibernate/standby mode when placed in a bag, backpack, or in an overhead bin. The PC will overheat as a result of that action. Any resulting damage will not be covered by the Dell warranty.

Now how a hibernated laptop could overheat..
No, surveillance is a bad thing period. No exceptions.
If it's a useful and helpful tool (and I assume it is from what you've said), what's the problem? It's not as though the existing tool is suddenly going to stop working.
>Guess PG was wrong!

I mean, he wasn't wrong. He was describing the state of spam at the time.

The way I see it, you were trying to corner him into giving the answer you wanted, and he was trying to corner you into asking the question that would force him to give the answer you wanted.

All machine learning models make intrinsic assumptions about their input distribution (no free lunch theorem and all that). If all your objection was that the model will fail to work if the assumptions it makes about the input distribution will fail to hold, that is a criticism for the entire field of machine learning, not this one spam-filtering product.
Name one place where it didn't get abused in any way?
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I've considered it, but from interactions with lawyers it seems that you don't need to put that degree of sophistication into the syntax for lawyers to be able to read and review the code. Turns out semantic features like the possibility of splitting the code into base case/exceptions and definitions under condition seem more important.

Catala is just a functional language under the hood, and its syntax is very basic (it has an LR(1) parser) with just verbose keywords.
I believe AT&T long subsidized its local operations with revenue from long distance operations. This took advantage of businesses' higher willingness to pay for long-distance in order to subsidize local access networks (as opposed to reinvesting all the long distance profits into more long distance capacity). It stopped not just because of capacity increases but because the govt created the incentive for competition in long distance, and imposed a ramp-down of the local access subsidy. When ISPs allowed ordinary people to finally communicate with the world without paying huge rates, AT&T successor companies fought hard in the 90s for Internet dialup to be treated like "interstate calls" because they made more money on them that way. If we were living in AT&T's internet, we'd pay more to access the websites that are far away, not because it costs more, but because business customers are willing to pay enough for it that it makes it more profitable than giving it for less to consumers.
Here's my totally outsider informed guesswork. We've seen similar problems recently with Microsoft, where legitimate sounding issues are denied bounties, so this kind of issue is not unique to Apple.

My guess would be, that MSRC and Apple's equivalent have an OKR about keeping bounties under a certain level. Security is seen as a cost centre by most companies, and what do "well run" companies do with cost centres... they minimize them :)

I don't think that organizationally either company wants to have bad security, and I don't think that individual staff in those companies want to have bad security, but I do think that incentive structures have been set-up in a way that leads to this kind of problem.

I've seen this described as lack of resources in the affected teams, but realistically these companies have effectively limitless resources, it's that they're not assigning them to these areas.
Would it not be possible for you to stream the data to a data lake and then take it from there to either do bulk inserts, or smooth out the inserts at a predictable rate to remove the peaks?
It can be really dangerous, as you lose speed, to try to reach the shoulder lane. Hard to judge without context.
Keep in mind too that a lot of company registered to the Irish DPC which is quite... lax. And the rest of the EU enforcement agency and the ECJ are both in a constant fight to close that loophole.

Which they are slowly winning. Ramping up regulations take time, but they work on tax schedule. They will win in the end.
I wonder how they got FAA permission to fly a private plane low over densly populated ara.
> I still don't see how encouraging competition

They are not encouraging anything. They are just playing a power game to see who can jerk more the other around. In the process, they create costs and bureaucratic obstacles that make it easier for any smaller player to have any chance of entering the market competitively.

> liberal economy using protectionist measures

Because it is a problem with the scale. There is not one economy in the EU states. There are many. By trying to apply a top-level, centralized solution to all member states, it ends up creating sub-optimal solutions for everyone. Or worse, it executes the decisions that benefits the member states with most power: Germany and France.

Systems that are designed bottom-up are more robust, have a more diverse set of tools to solve their problems and fail in more localized, controlled ways. Tell me how many times has Switzerland got into some kind of deep systemic crisis. Now do the same with similarly small countries that are in the EU.
HN stole the time marker, it starts at t=5603s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjxHKvwX8RY&t=5603s
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Great! Now I just need Netflix to work at decent res in Linux and then it’s almost usable for day to day
> To reiterate, I take zero boluses when I’m on the keto diet.

I'm very surprised by this and would love to hear what you eat while doing keto. I'm T1 but still have to bolus when doing keto, even when doing zero carb and fasting for 18+ hours a day. I only need between 1 and 3 units but there's rarely an occasion when I don't need to bolus at all.

> Doctors are against it because they’re dealing with ketoacidosis on a regular basis.

The issue my endo has is that my BG is much lower than he would like. I've heard the phrase "too well controlled" so many times and it irritates me no end. His concern is that I'll lose awareness of low BG, and can't comprehend how I'm able to function as usual even when my BG is ~2.5 mmol/l (to clarify - I don't aim to run that low; my target range is 4-6).
Unsafe code can make even safe and correct code behave unpredictably, which is a lot more dangerous than merely crashing in an obvious way.
> There are various features provided by Snapchat (camera, filters, games)

Of course, these are addons to the platform. But the platform is still the same fundamental application as a forum. Nothing more.
I have a kinesis freestyle pro, and it's great. About 18" of separation. I only wish it had a steeper tilt angle.

I always thought full size keyboards should split the alpha keys and put the numpad in the middle. That would drastically improve ergonomics.
Incredible. I have a Dell laptop and luckily I haven't had any catastrophes but I have seen it woken up a couple of times when it was just sitting there with its lid closed and nothing attached.
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You know he is the CEO of Facebook. He needs some @@##$Privacy...

In any case, they overpaid the fine by thousands of times
compared to what was required, so there is another shareholders lawsuit coming their way. You cannot be a public company and mismanage the company money like this.
I don't have an answer to your particular question but you might have luck posting it at https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/ which was made exactly for that kind of question.
I'm wondering how the health-data incident works with respect to the GDPR.

Apple says it stores Health data in a protected way on the device.

In reality, health data is leaked through logs and can be accessed by any other app. It is impossible to tell whether or not this data has been accessed in the wild.

Since Apple failed to implement their claimed security features properly and you need to assume exploitation by apps in the wild in the worst case, this would require a disclosure to GDPR authorities. Did they do it? Were they fined yet?
> That means you can't clear its app data nor uninstall it, effectively bricking Chrome permanently.

I foresee a "brickrolling" trend.
> There was absolutely nothing wrong with the "ugly" framework code, it was quite beautiful, well structured, configurable and fast.

I'm sure there is far more to the story than the new guys doing a poor job writig a replacement service.

For example, old code does add maintenance costs just by the fact that it's either tied to old frameworks or even OSes, either of which might not be maintained anymore. Also, I don't feel it's a honest argument to criticize java for the sake of being java. If there was ever a production-minded programming language and tech stack, that would undoubtedly be java.

I'm sure the guys who designed the replacement service would have a few choice words regarding the old service.
There is also https://comatrix.eu which I think implements this.
Reminds me how in the first public release of Chrome you could crash the entire browser by typing % in the address bar.
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Project management tools are not intrinsically evil. It is the managements that abuse those tools that are the problem. Often the same people who set the budget and deadline before the project/product was even properly scoped.
> my grandma doesn’t have WiFi

Tech workers have difficulty taking into consideration lifestyles they don't know exist, which is understandable. At the end of the day this comes as another consequence of the lack of diversity in tech, I guess.