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Mostly on deployment (after the process has actually started), but sometimes after (on start).

Since we use Azure a lot through the API, there is a difference in the first case. Usually it would fail on the first API call, it would just tell you this or that went wrong. Now the process fails after it has been started.

That's my hunch also... Speaking for someone interested in IaaS/VDI, not all instances are available in all regions. For example, instances with GPUs are available only in North and West Europe. If you need them, and they are out of stock, you have no value of any UK or France region.

Working with all three of them, so here's my two cents: 1. Mostly traditional, "legacy" companies have been hit hard by this. Ones that don't have culture or technology of work-from-home. Those companies use some Microsoft products. Also, Microsoft has been poaching them heavily, handing out trials, bundling licenses and so on. A lot of them don't actually buy stuff from Microsoft, but through 3rd party vendors which have incentives of their own. Some of the end users don't actually want to use AWS, also.

2. I actually think Microsoft has much less runway. From what I understand, AWS has more modern infrastructure and backend, and they shuffle resources easily around, between services, and I think they have much more in reserve. Microsoft has concentrated much more on the sheer number of regions.

3. Azure has a strange way of handling quotas, if you ask me. Up until now, once you provision a VM, it is deducted from a quota and stays like that as long as it exists. It has never been an issue to actually power it on (unlike AWS), once you have it. It's not billed, but we always thought it stays like that. Since last week, you can see failures not only when provisioning VM's (even within your quota) but also when starting them. Nevertheless, I also think a lot of users had larger quotas allocated then they actually use. So they just started creating more VMs or other resources (because they could), and the thing came crashing. I think that's just poor planning on Microsoft's side.

But the thing I'm mostly pissed of is the status page. VM's are failing left, right and center and everything is nice and green on the status page. Once you open a ticket, they send you an incident-in-progress report.

As far as I'm concerned, no, it hasn't.

Writing from Serbia. At this point we're at around 105 confirmed ill, 0 deaths. My fiancée is an MD directly involved in trying to contain the spread. In out of the ordinary conditions people just lose common sense. Just think about driving in the rain. That's relatively benign, but when raining I just can't fathom sometimes WTF I'm seeing. Imagine something like a pandemic with yet unknown consequences and spread trend. We've seen hoarding, conflict, disregard towards public health, panic, leisure, the works...

The current action items are: - No going outside for anyone older than 65 - Curfew from 20:00 to 05:00, with a possibility to prolong it - Closed borders - Airports shut down - No transportation between cities - Heavily limited public gathering - Military given law enforcement jurisdiction over civilians - Schools and universities shut down

And you know what, even with this measures (although I think they are late), it's still very hard to put sense into people and grab this thing by its neck.

Disclaimer: These measures are controversial in the country, because of the current (autocratic/oligarchic, opaque) political setup, which I am not fond of. There is a lack of transparency in this situation, also. But would I choose any different if asked ? Probably no.

I really like the idea. However, I wanted to use it last summer and really had mixed results, and it was a Nexus 5, which is no slouch of a phone. I hope the detection and reporting (via Signal) has improved over time.

Pretty sure at least 100M are from me...

That's not really how things work. Even with a billion little cheap cameras, you can't do anything because they still can't see nearly enough as one proper telescope, which they blinded. As someone other in this discussion said, if you can see it with your eye, it is way too bright.

I'm blaming mostly Samsung for this. Because of some, for me mind-boggling, reason, Samsung grew to be The Android manufacturer, and still is today. In earlier days I really don't recall their phones being any much better than their competition. But their software was and is bloated beyond good taste. And I guess because of that, other manufacturers just followed along.

Very different, at least between Azure and AWS. The Azure one is very "manual", you must do a bunch of operations separately which are abstracted as a one-click-thing in the portal. Also, when working through the API, you get a sense of how unreliable some processes are. Of course you should have circuit breakers, failovers, rollbacks and stuff. But with Azure API, they are a MUST.

We also work with the GCP API and it's somewhat closer to Azure, AFAIK (haven't worked with it directly).

I work in a SaaS company, and we run "a lot of Azure". We open around a dozen tickets annually. The response is a mixed bag. The response times are pretty good, but it depends what will you get as a response. Sometimes you get asked a bunch of irrelevant questions just to get a simple answer (which actually helps). Sometimes you just can't get them on the same page. There are support engineers that just do not know what are you talking about. Typical example: snapshots. It took me once like 10 emails to clarify that I'm having issues with managed disk snapshots, not with blob snapshots. At the end I'm not even sure he was still aware what am I asking, the guy was completely oblivious. He finally sent me some screenshot of his own control panel (where he sees much more info than the user does), to show me something, where I actually noticed something else that unstuck me. But if he didn't we would still be sending mails back and forward.

On a side note, didn't know about the whole Siraj Raval "controversy". I always found him shallow and more form over function, just stopped following him and didn't speak about it because everyone was raving over him. Looks like there was something after all...

I've heard about this procedure, makes me chuckle every time (in case of volcanic ash encounter).

"Damage to the windshield may necessitate an autoland or landing with a sliding window open."

I'm not really into military doctrine, but why not just leave all the flying stuff to the Air Force or maybe specialized parts of the Navy? When you look up US air units/forces, there is a bunch of stuff left to the national guards, marines etc. and flying is obviously something to be taken seriously. And it looks like they are more likely to screw it up or take it less seriously.

True. Basically Airbus will have time to roll out their own purebred NMA competitor by then, although they have the A321.

It probably impacted already. The Boeing NMA is basically nowhere to be seen, the 777X deadlines are slowly being broken, and that should be the future of Boeing. For now, Boeing is dealing with the past, basically, corpses falling out of the closet. Not to mention the 787 engine issues.

Don't worry, I dropped out from it :D . My mom said:"So, you actually might become a garbageman at the end". Slavic parents...

This is fun. I grew up on the other side of the world (albeit a "western" culture), and was also amazed by garbage trucks from the day I remember. The whole lift/squash mechanism, their bright orange color (in our parts), the ease by which they lift the containers, the colored control lights/buttons on the side which the cleaners use to operate the lift, the blinkers. And made funny noises. It was something straight out of the toy shop, in full size! I wanted to be a waste collector when I grow up. My parents were keen to make fun of me because of that once I enrolled in PhD studies.

Same goes for fire trucks, I had multiple fire engine toys. But a fire truck is a rare thing to see in action in person, so I guess that's why it was easier to relate to the loud trashcan on wheels :-) .

A lot of people suggesting just to forget about it. Jeez, I couldn't sleep properly until I found out what's inside. I would personally be more disappointed in myself for ignoring it than opening it and finding nothing. At least I would have a safe.

On the other hand, I would try cracking it myself, for fun. If not, call someone.

I actually don't have too much experience in cooking, but with every meal I make I get better. Cooking is not programming. Some of the best meals I actually made were made without precise measurements, just by gut, sometimes in a hurry. Sure, I might have measured things by the gram the first time I made them, but on next attempt the closest 20g or 30g is more than enough. Oven 45 minutes? Sure, but it looks brown already and it has only been 35, just pull it out.

I would just take it for what it is. The sample is not that small, and there can be more things included, like people who run do other things beneficial for their health. Even so, if somebody smokes and starts running, they might quit smoking because they want a better breathing pattern and it obstructs them while running. So might that be attributed to running? Dunno, I'm not an expert. But I would write this thing off.

I would also like to see data on walking. For example people who walk regularly more than x kilometers daily (those who go to work by foot) and so on. Do other activities like the elliptical have the same benefit? I shouldn't run for any prolonged period because of ankle issues, but I can happily ride the elliptical for 30-45 minutes. I suppose the answer is yes...

The A380 might actually live the destiny of the 767 or 757.

Sure, it was a handful for the manufacturer, luckily pulled it off, kinda broke even after some time. But it will be long gone when it will be really needed, when large hubs become even more congested or certain P2P lines heavily overgrow on themselves.

Good question. D1_v2, D2_v2 and NV6 have them, because I use them day-to-day. I have some E4, I'll have to check.

Search for "Sputnik Inspektor". Enjoy your anxiety :-) .

Had the same issue the first time I was using Uber, around 1.5 year ago. Uber is not available in my region, and I was in the States, wanting to catch a ride with my colleagues to the airport, so that was my first time in the app. We were going long-haul and had a lot of luggage. First car that comes in is a Corolla in which there is no way we could fit. The guy (in poor English) tells us to choose a bigger car. We try to tap around, just to get a Jetta.

At the end we asked a guy in a shop near the spot we were waiting, for him just to swipe the ride type right to left. Felt like an idiot, because the three types available at were perfectly centered and aligned.

Great. Now only left for Azure to remove the A: drive from their VMs.

I work in na multicloud SaaS, on Azure. Colleagues tease me. They actually bought me a blue floppy disk labeled "Azure - important!". I even have a Jira ticket somewhere, assigned to me "Uninstall floppy drive".

Can't say about new ones, but after a couple of years of working on a huge Python project, I would accept rewriting it in Java without a whim. I have equal experience in Python and Java by now. Funny thing, I returned from my vacation a few months ago, and started writing my first code after it. Of course, I was more concerned with thinking what am I writing instead of how. Then I looked up and noticed I started typing Java instead of Python. And that's three years after the last time I've written some Java code.

True... But with the 737 saga continuing, and there is no Boeing successor in sight, and you ain't gonna buy any Airbus soon, I personally believe there are influences in some airlines to actually think about switching. It isn't going to be easy but you've got a lot of time on our hands anyway. This taxes might make just that bit more difficult.

Try watching the movie About Time, from 2013. In short the main character can travel through time to visit his passing father... Until a point. Sound creepy, but actually isn't. A very wholesome movie.

This is a fresh, possibly more substantiated article: https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/09/22/blast-from-the-past-vel...

The interesting fact is that there is very little speak of any other nation carrying out a nuclear test. It boiled down to Israel and South Africa, or a sensor glitch/weather fenomena. Kind of fun that the two nations vere the prime suspects although officially "nothing happened".

What's the issue with Java package management? If that's a Java con, what should be said about Python's?