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hdaz0017··on Windows died inside Microsoft, a 25-year veteran on how Azure took over
Azure's a massive pothole, the biggest waste of time and money, there's five options available.

1 - it's in preview or private preview and sits there for years.

2 - half the platform is poorly stitched together and one blip away from weeks or months of failure.

3 - Management don't care or have any understanding, if you can get the right information to the outsourced support they still won't have any idea (sorry its out of our scope).

4 - ai will fix it.

5 - pay us more money for nothing, we will pull the rug from under your feet soon.

I am amazed they are still in business.

hdaz0017··on Windows died inside Microsoft, a 25-year veteran on how Azure took over
azure took over, its the biggest pot hole in history. crazyie
hdaz0017··on UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions
should wind FIFA up and create a less corrupt world body.
hdaz0017··on Our position on open-weights models
$3m - $4m does not get that much these days

https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/anthropic-n...

hdaz0017··on Ask HN: Why is every company encorporating AI everywhere?
it's like GeoCities from the 1990's, 99% of it looks rubbish, and if any % of it even work's - it would be truely shocking.

The reason of cause is that we are all doing AI wrong ;) 18 billion articles later and I am sure we will still be in the same position.

The great distraction, just think if we spent the same amount of time, effort and money on things that really mattered (climate emergency)

hdaz0017··on “We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”
iPhones are predominantly made in China

Foxconn facilities in cities like Zhengzhou (known as "iPhone City") and Shenzhen.

hdaz0017··on Reform UK leader 'in real trouble' against Count Binface
If one were to stand would Farage take part in question time...?

As I have some questions for him :)

hdaz0017··on Most arguments are about ego, not ideas
"ship the thing they think is wrong and let reality settle it"

Sorry this just does not work... if what is being shipped is harmful to your own work or the rest of the company I feel I should speak up.

Sometimes the person/people normally doing ego defending often tries to blame everything/one else over their view or project.

If someone is trying to defend a telnet session into a banking server, live on the internet in 2026 then hey dude this has to be called out. (( I am not saying I have been in this position in 2026 )) but even the year I was in this position it was 100% unacceptable and needed fixing. <very simple example>

hdaz0017··on I Still Live in the Terminal
terminal is the only way for me... 100% control year after year.
hdaz0017··on GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands
The World's Most Important Machine ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiUHjLxm3V0

hdaz0017··on The rich aren't your role models
"Americans live in one of the most prosperous and advanced societies in the world" for only a small % of the people that live in America!

1 - 2 million people are homeless!

What next mr south african, will go for 100 trillion?

hdaz0017··on The rich aren't your role models
$7.01 trillion

A deficit occurs when the federal government’s spending exceeds its revenues. The federal government has spent $1.25 trillion more than it has collected in fiscal year (FY) 2026 - another 1.25 trillion to go for the second half of the year.

hdaz0017··on Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
spacewalk for 2026 :)
hdaz0017··on Porting the ThinkPad X61 to Coreboot
just 7-8 thinkpads is not an addiction :)
hdaz0017··on Why Aren't We Measuring How AI Affects Humans?
the ultimate virus! give us ( three or four companies ) all your data...
hdaz0017··on A word processor from 1990s for Atari ST/TOS is still supported by enthusiasts
PageSetter 2/3 (can't remember which version got me my first job, from a cover disk), Page Stream 3, Professional Page :)
hdaz0017··on Slop Terrifies Me
We should have also been talking about "devops slop" since 2007! it's good enough we have heard this for how many decades?
hdaz0017··on Bash scripts are brittle – simple error handling in bash
ok so some people call it "brittle" it's 2026, what would impress were if people raised the issues and helped fixing them!

writing in another language, how much more complexity do you want to introducing :)

I believe bash scripts can be anything you want them to be, if they are useful to you then happy day's.

if you hit performance issues or want to experiment else where cool.

error handling in ruby is almost impossible

error handling in python is wildly hit and miss

error handling in golang is rather annoying

error handling in powershell, good luck you will need it

error handling in perl ok i'll stop now you probably get the picture.

hdaz0017··on CorsProxy
works for me on linux firefox, chrome and brave
hdaz0017··on [dead]
"one of the greatest societies in the world" - erm lol dude...
hdaz0017··on [dead]
There's only one way to stop this, protesting is fine but the only way to make the point is for each state or the whole of USA to go on strike! not just for one day but weeks / months! every working person that thinks this is deranged it's only the start.

If your government can go on strike for weeks and months, why can't the normal people?

hdaz0017··on Tell HN: I write and ship code ~20–50x faster than I did 5 years ago
hope you are getting paid 50x more than 5 years ago

hope you are getting 50x more value

:) good luck you will need it :)

hdaz0017··on Microservices Killed Our Startup. Monoliths Would've Saved Us
please give us $200 ;) but sorry we can't even get the title right!
hdaz0017··on US Government Uptime Monitor
- if governement is down does that mean citzans do not have to pay any taxes

- All US workers need to go on strike until you get a government that works for the whole population ;)

hdaz0017··on The great displacement is already well underway?
Some of the solution(s) have already been played out a few times, we humans use our imagination(s). Everything that has been built with computers was just an idea a few decades ago.

In the 80's there were a few slices of thoughts, why are you interested in computers? They won't go very far... or we don't know how to make money from them...

IT, Computing, the Internet has for the last 25-30 years been stuck thinking about shopping and billing.

The brute force statistical copy and paste we see today, it may or may not replace a large part of the internet systems, but there were always many other aspects of computing or the world that computers could be used for that have hardly been touched.

To any social media platform's (if any of them can really be called this) that are saying they can not or will not police their own platform's of dangerous content, really you will be held responsible!

Just because the big IT corp's might become blinded they will live in fear of being on the brink of extinction, if they replace the creative people or their customer's. To the CEO's and management sucking billion's/trillion's of dollars out of the market(s) this can't continue.

There has to be change(s) because we have boxed ourselves into weird position(s), i.e always chasing the cash cows.

We are not even at the start of what's possible, what "people" will/could create in the next 50 years, with the right levels of education and inspiration the computing world will most likely not be stopping or slowing down any time soon.

hdaz0017··on Amiga 600: From the Amiga No One Wanted to Retro Favorite
I might be biased as the A600 was the first computer I bought with my own money, but there was no way I would have bought a 386SX over the A600.

This article is so tilted towards the American market and that's fine.

I used to play Wolfenstein 3D on a friend's PC. They certainly did not pay anything like what I had, but within a year or so they would have had to upgrade as well. The thing is I could do more with my A600 than most people who used a pc. One the games were there and the games were great to play, the first game I bought for the A600 was almost all I needed for Sensible Soccer, soon to be upgraded to SWOS. but there were probably 50 - 100 games that were just amazing. Photo and Video Editing, Making Music all in 1992 in fact the A600 kept me going way into 1999. I then bought a A1200 but it was not the same...

Saga and Nintendo were the challange to the Amiga, I am not saying Doom did not have a big effect but I think we just assumed there would be a release at some point.

Three words, plug and play!

I do wish Commodore would have released the A1200 in the A600's package if they had. I probably would not have been able to buy it.

I got an Amiga Format magazine in the hope that the 3 half inch disks would fit into my home computer. (( they didn't half an inch out )) lol It showcased the A600 and the style of the machine was so much better for the time than the A500 it looked sharp and new I ended up buying it within weeks or month or so.

The A500, A600 and A1200 are all prone to discoloration....

I still have two A600's and one A1200 and all of them are still working, not bad for a computer that is 33 years old and took a battering for many years.

:)

hdaz0017··on The t-test was invented at the Guinness brewery
How many global religions that date back a few weeks or so, are all wanting to be on the same postage stamp within Alaska?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Israel

Alaska's first census in 1880 counted 33,426 people! Alaska had 731,007 residents on July 1, 2019, size 663,268 square miles.

There's about 1.7 million displaced people in Gaza today, size 2,260 square miles

hdaz0017··on Show HN: We built PriceLevel to find out what companies pay for SaaS
I am not sure where the information was gained, but I believe this is only a fraction of the overall costs for an organisation. (probably limited number of account(s)).
hdaz0017··on Database for UK nurse registration 'completely unacceptable'
are we sure its not just a spreadsheet?
hdaz0017··on Wax: The Word Processor for the Web
they must be working on the demo as its down...

This site can’t be reachedwax-demo.coko.foundation refused to connect.

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