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It hasn’t gotten a strong enough backlash.

They commented on all the *gates and even the ocsp issue which reached mainstream media.

But this is so low level (normal people don’t know or care about firewalls except it’s running, or understand why it’s bad for Apple to bypass it) that it won’t become big enough to get that kind of press and response.

Once it’s exploited and has a pretty name, maybe.

That’s a very simplistic way of looking at things which isn’t supported by medical science.

Specifically glucose, fructose, sucrose, are worth treating differently for the purposes of diet management.

That’s a really ameri-centric way of looking at things. “Only the US numbers hurt [because I’m in the US and only US people matter].

Or, depending on the cause, “Bugs in Native Instruments hardware / drivers can damage their hardware with Big Sur”.

One useful thing per day is too much for me. Some days I can’t do anything. Some weeks are the same. Sometimes a month just goes by.

But in the scale of each year I’m super productive.

There’s another word for elder “wisdom” - superstition.

I question anything I’m told that doesn’t have proof attached, or singular experiences that are then extrapolated to cover an infinite future.

This always comes up in the same places: - Piss poor processes - Refusal to apply updates - Unverifiable decisions that exist for years

There’s a reason people say, “Ok boomer”.

“I only want to do what I want to do,” is pretty self-limiting.

Not only does it cut off any way for you to grow, it makes it hard for companies to hire you over programmers willing to do anything. And I don’t mean that in a bad way but a realistic way - companies hire and want to keep you on but know you’re not going to be interested in any of their projects so the time investment has been wasted.

Most crypto places force you to provide ID now and governments force you to declare how much you have. Both for tax reasons.

I dropped Dropbox when they enforced the 3 device limit on the free consumer plan a few years ago.

It sucks for them because I was very outspoken about them beforehand because I used it. Then it changed from endorse to absolutely tell people to stay away because it’s unusable.

Penny wise pound foolish.

Long post of someone making an ass of themselves because they demand every cost be knowable up front.

Hilarious. And they’re referencing specs so deep nobody understands what they’re talking about. Certificates are BS.

This is brilliant.

Bwahaha. Yeah let’s see how that works out. Looking forward to a dead company in 3... 2... 1...

Yeah. Everyone uses it because it requires the least effort, but on so many levels Markdown is such garbage.

From the different code block implementations, to crappy tables, to trying to indent lists, and so forth.

But it's also the dumbest, lowest common denominator style of text. It's missing almost anything useful.

That it's popular is an insult to anything of quality.

That's what we have though. I don't feel cosy about a text language under stewardship either.

I get the cultural reference but as a historical artefact the stockholm syndrome study was falsified and no such thing exists.

It’s disgusting. It’s not up to them to decide how long a certificate should be valid. Especially when they’re so expensive to buy and complicated to replace.

This looks a lot like a racist piece to me.

Unfortunately Microsoft saw this coming in 2012 and changed their database licensing off of per-socket and onto per-core.

A statute of limitations on hacking laws would also help. There's no reason people should be fearful decades later for stuff they did as (relative if not literal) kids.

- Uptime

The number and frequency of outages in Azure are crazy. They happen non-stop all year around. You get meaningless RCAs but it never seems to get better, and if it did, you'd have no way of knowing.

Compare this with doing stuff internally - you can hire staff, or train staff, and get better. In the long run outsourcing and trusting other companies to invest in "getting better" doesn't end very well. Just because they moved their overall metrics overall from 99.9 to 99.91 may not help your use case.

- Reliability

Their UIs change every day, there's no end to end documentation on how things work. There's no way to keep up.

- Support

Azure's own support staff are atrocious. You have to repeatedly bang your head against the wall for days to get anyone who even knows the basic stuff from their own documentation.

But it's also difficult to find your own people to do the setup too. Sure, lots of people can do it, but because it's new they have little experience and end up not knowing much, unable to answer questions, and building garbage on the cloud platform. Because there's no cloud seniority, it hasn't been around for long enough.

- Security

Cloud providers have or can get access and sometimes use it.

- Management

I've seen too many last minute "we made a change and now everything will be broken unless you immediately do something" notifications to be happy about.

- Cost

It's ridiculously expensive above a certain scale, and that scale is not very big. I don't know if it's because people overbuild, or because you're being nickel-and-dimed, or if you're just paying so many times above normal for enterprise hardware and redundancy. It's still expensive.

Yes, owning (and licensing) your own is expensive too.

For smaller projects and tiny companies, totally fine! It's even great!

- Maturity

People can't manage cloud tools properly. This doesn't help with costs above.

PS: I don't think any other cloud service is better.

Would you say Washington Post is more balanced or about the same?

Jesus what a pile of drivel. Zero commitment to addressing the misleading advertising or making amends.

6 cores and 64GB max memory? It’s hardly enough to run anything.

It seems it requires root privileges to start with. Am I misunderstanding?

That’s the first time I’ve heard anyone complement UWP. I thought it doesn’t support anything useful like datagridview?

There should not be any opt-out for recycling because everyone foots the cost of a shitty planet to save your $50 credit.

Calling it CGI seems like an awful awful move.

How much did an energy company pay for you to write this garbage?

Thank goodness!

I looked at the article and it made me mad because it seemed to be a bunch of nonsense.

I mean the second video paragraph is: "A closer look at the memcpy arguments shows that this address is built as 0xfffff8035b2a0000 + 0xe7ff, so we taint the value 0xe7ff to find where it comes from." But there's absolutely zero explanation of what we're looking at.

So it made me mad because it made me feel stupid for not understanding it, when in reality it's just poorly written. Poor communication is theft.

Same article gets regurgitated a few times a year ever since Netflix started.