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I went on one two weeks back. Nothing has changed my dude. And my seat was not even close to the toilets and it smelled like everyone was peeing solid yellow concentrated blocks. You can't make this up. I really wish they'd improve cos trains are super convenient.

It maybe went from worse to bad. I'll give you that but it is nowhere near normal.

Excellent. Are you using any of the latest and greatest CSS f**eries or sticking with something simple like bootstrap?

> I haven't touched JavaScript since the late 90s

Can I come live with you? It's sad that I'm only half joking.

How much success are you having with Blazor? Has it completely replaced SPA frameworks for your use case?

I've got three questions.

1)How much JS/CSS are we talking about for heavily interactive pages? Do you not even use light weight libraries like knockoutjs or backbonejs?

2)Have you gone down the Blazor route yet?

3)What kind of system yall are working on that requires this much security? I've worked for a very information sensitive department of one of the top International banks where it was all sorts of npm galore.

The Irony is amazing! So much stuff in hackerrank is copy/paste from other sites. And the site is super low quality to boot. This is pure wtfery.

Is this on an M1 Mac? Is the difference in battery usage enough to shift to safari? I quit safari a while back cos it did some very weird things and I've been using Chrome but it is very heavy on memory and battery life.

For what seems to be a fairly organized system, they still have not figured out how to not have the compartments smell like stale urine. I am not even joking. The moment you step into a compartment even the air-conditioned ones, the stench of urine is unbelievably strong. This has been this way since 2000s. Such a shame for a system that could be so much better.

What brand are the old IEMs?

Being able to move around a lot has been super helpful for me with the QC35 IIs. I've gone everywhere inside the house, the occasional smoke breaks, running downstairs to pick up an order and so on. This pair has a surprisingly good range

SHOULD we go to Mars? Where do you stand on that?

Lol. Gave me a good chuckle!

> Disagree. Indian cities are a lot more pedestrian friendly. Parts of US Northeast are the exception, not the norm. In India, you just kinda walk and the trafffic stops/ manouvers around you.

I've lived almost all my life in India, several towns and cities at that and there is not a single place that is pedestrian friendly. I think you're mistaking walking into traffic and causing a mini panic for the oncoming vehicles vs actual pedestrian friendly roads.

What tech stack do you use now?

Alright. Appreciate it. Thanks.

Linode and Digital Ocean are pretty good.

Lol, here we go again. You make too many assumptions. There are no limitations here. The very process that Microsoft wants us to do is broken. Do you understand the difference? It is like me selling you a coffee machine and asking you to do steps A, B and C and when you get to step C there is no button to press. That is not a "limitation"

Sorry but using a partner or becoming one for running a single fucking web app is absurd. End of the month, I'm moving everything over to DO - solved!

I submitted a request for pay by invoice last year to which I was told I can pay by Credit card. I told them I WANTED to switch again and a representative told they'll get back to me. Nothing ever happened again. I left it at that.

This time however, I got an email from MS stating due to a law that declines automatic payments I'd have to pay the bill by clicking the Pay Bill button on the billing console, which is simply not there. Trying to go through the documentation for it is bizarre since it never tells you where exactly the "Pay bill" button is.

I'm not even mad today cos Azure throws a random error when I go to the billing page. Fuck this.

How do you sign up for something like Azure or Office 365 without an MS login? I'm curious

Bullshit.

The payment issue the original comment was talking about, is super basic. I've faced the same issue for months it's not even funny.

Nobody is doing anything complicated. We're just trying to manually pay an overdue bill. Super straightforward in AWS, GCP and DO. In Azure, you don't even know where the "Pay now" button is given that automatic charges are declined due to a new law.

I'm tired of the "It's not just Microsoft, other companies are equally worse" argument.

I'm a single person running a web app on Azure App Service. I don't need an MS Partner. The direct relationship sucks. MS sucks. Stop defending them.

I think you've got heuristics and art form mixed up

I talk to the Wind is amaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazing. Thanks for reminding this exists. It has been years since I listened to their music

Why has nobody said India? 99 percent of the country would fall well under your budget!!!!

Oh yes there was a point in my career where I’ve used it more than my primary IDE. Beyond Compare is solid!!!

Do you feel better about yourself by being snarky to people on the internet? How does it work? I'm curious

var foo = await GetFooAsync(...);

var bar = await GetBarAsync(...);

var baz = await GetBazAsync(...);

Unfortunately this is the kind of example that is being used in the MS docs and elsewhere to explain async. I spent a long time figuring out what the difference was when they ran the exact same way as the synchronous version.

I remember this one!!!! I spent about a week and a half trying to figure this one out. Holy shit. Has your trauma waned off?

>Unqualified people will apply >over, and over, and over, >everywhere they can

Given this is true, won’t it be the case that you’d hire more people who were unqualified but repeatedly got better at interviews as opposed to the qualified one(someone who always gets 91 or 92 in your example)

You’ll actually end up hiring folks who are not good at what they do but people who got better at interviews.

That sounds all dandy and exciting! Good luck!

May I ask why? Bad work-life balance? Bored?

I'm still confused. Standard deviation of what? What is being measured here?