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A PR reverting this is already approved and merged: https://github.com/microsoft/grpc_bench/pull/1

Thanks, 3np

It’s Active Directory, not storage, compute, & networking. Major, to be sure, but hardly the cloud being down like the recent AWS outage.

It looks like Azure Active Directory, so O365 would be hit harder than Azure I imagine because most services in Azure are still using storage access keys and whatnot given that AAD auth for data plane is fairly recent in most offerings. I.e my VM running and having network connectivity doesn’t necessarily depend on AAD.

When will we switch to memory safe (but reasonably performant) languages like Go/Rust/C#?

Performance critical sections could remain in C/C++, but MOST code doesn’t need the kind of performance C/C++ provides.

Hopefully C/C++ will go the way of assembly: present in TINY doses.

I mean notifying parents is fine it’s the “comparison against X database and then notify Y organization” thats the real issue.

This article doesn’t provide much substance, other than listing directors that were Catholic and a rouge Agent who also happened to be Catholic. I was expecting a revelation but sadly this just seems like a clickbait title at worst, and a brief history of leadership affiliations at best.

That resignation wasn’t about hot reload - it was about merging a PR over objections by maintainers.

It was probably the 32 bit version of pinball, running on 64 bit windows via WoW64

If you want to write a game, there’s Unity.

Or you could make some kind of REST API with ASP.NET Core or gRPC.

Agree the UI story has been rough. .NET MAUI seems promising, yes?

Outside of JavaScript, what other (good) multi platform UI frameworks are out there? And I’m hesitant to call JS good, with the amount of slow, laggy, resource intensive apps I’ve come across.

Microsoft did - in both Azure AD [1] and Bing [2],[3]. 1 and 2 from .NET Framework to .NET Core, but [3] is to .NET 5.

[1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/azure-active-directory... [2] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/bing-com-runs-on-net-c... [3] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/migration-of-bings-wor...

There’s work beyond the runtime, too.

They wrote a gRPC library [1],and a high performance JSON library [2]. Granted, these are .NET libraries, but still.

[1] https://github.com/grpc/grpc-dotnet [2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/serializati...

I run a full dual stack service in Azure [1]. I couldn’t get instance level IPv6 working, but everything else works in both v4 and v6.

I will echo that many Azure services don’t support v6 yet, though.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/ipv6-...

I must have the same misunderstanding. I don’t know why this has to be device side for iCloud photos..

I'm confused. If iCloud backups are not encrypted [1], and this only scans iCloud photos, why can't they just do this server side? I'm not saying server-side is OK, but its at least not device side (which is obviously a slippery slope).

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...

I believe the correct term is “countably infinite”

I don’t see where this says selling a soul is “only” a sin.

I’m appalled this is even on HN.

- If you are an atheist, would you sell it for $5? If the answer is no, why sell it for more? What value can you place on your soul (or someone’s idea of it)?

- If someone is willing to pay much more than $5, consider what they are gaining, and what you are losing. Why would they be willing to pay so much?

- If only in the interest of self preservation, have you heard of Pascal’s Wager? [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_wager

Indeed. I feel like many companies have their IT systems in varying levels of disrepair. Just look at the sheer amount of data breaches. At least this wasn’t a security breach (though I’d imagine (hope?) that it’d wouldn’t impact aircraft in flight.

I wouldn’t consider 737s huge planes.

Also, their entire fleet is made up of 737s, so it’s not like large airports get a massive planes (maybe a MAX vs a -700, but still not a huge difference)

100% agree with this. I work on a service deployed in Azure processing PBs of data each day. We’re a team of about 8 engineers, and we have an on-call rotation.

As a result, we’re incentivized to reduce on call noise and have the system automate remediation as much as possible.

Granted, our company does have centralized teams that build tooling. So that does seem to be a prerequisite to having full cycle developers.

If you’re building in the cloud, I think there’s less need to be a SysAdmin these days (I used to be be one), and Azure makes it pretty easy to have automatic updates, firewall rules, etc. We rarely touch our hosting environment (Service Fabric on VMSS).

The on-call sucks at times, but I’d never trade it for how fast we’re able to ship.

Most Azure services don’t, but Azure Monitor does. I guess it’s easy to deploy something that emits tons of logs or metrics inadvertently, so having a quota might be nice.

I think it’s tricky to implement, though.

From the service side...What happens when the user quota resets? You see a flood of traffic to the service. That might trigger anomaly alerts or you run out of capacity.

Another issue is how often does the quota reset? Daily? Hourly? Monthly? That’ll determine how big those spikes are when the quota lifts.

What is "indentured" h1b vs "proper" h1b - is there somewhere I can read more about this?

I work on systems that deal with PBs of data every day, so we'd stand to benefit significantly from .NET Core improvements for numerous reasons. At that level of scale, reducing memory copying would be the biggest win for us.

For the vectorization space specifically, .NET Core string operations like Equals and IndexOf are (now) vectorized, looks like Bing took advantage of that: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/bing-com-runs-on-net-c...

Never was big into ML, but I know people that do a lot of it in Python or R. If those mathematical libraries could be ported to .NET, I wonder how big the improvements would be.