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Another one from Singapore. I agree that the official reaction seems well handled! (Not that there wasn't a slight panic and crazy hoarding stories and there certainly are flaws in…

Similar/same experience here: Friends are in Europe, I'm in SEA / Singapore. We randomly have the robot voice or people cutting out and then start the 'switch region' dance. Which …

Duplicate a couple days ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22055145

I was tinkering with it recently. My problem was .. support. After a lot of double-checking on my part, I was finally convinced that Cloud Run messed things up (in my case: A Conte…

Sometimes Names and occupations are a weird (and amusing) mismatch. Lester Freundlich - the name literally meaning 'Friendly' in German - having to be the ~bad guy~ in this context…

Obviously this is all opinionated and YMMV etc. > Facebook in comparison never had strangers piling on me telling me I am worthless and invalid based on my race and gender. Uhm.. T…

This is a signed die and has to have -1 on it somewhere..

I have a 3700x system (but running Windows) at home. Check with the motherboard vendor first? My board¹ has received three or four updates since I got it (which .. is an entirely d…

> Perhaps you should, so you can be more informed on a position before posting opinions such as this. As evidenced by the above, you don't actually know what this protest is about,…

> Well I am sorry for the people who live in that country. And this, Hacker News, is why it's hard to argue on English platforms / on mostly American sites. This poster, in a singl…

I think you gave me the most pause in this argument so far. I do think punishing the player itself, even in the original 12 months / 10k way before they relented, was .. acceptable…

> We can't know for sure from the outside, but context suggests 2 is more likely. Can't it be .. both? And if we at least somewhat agree that this had to have consequences, why .. …

> Context #1: there has been a years-long trend for Western entertainment media (movies, games) to cater to the Chinese market. This ranges from voluntary censorship that seems odd…

> But in the West it is expected that token political statements are to be allowed and protected. Is that so? I could imagine a huuuge amount of political statements that are illeg…

> And seize his prize money and fire the casters? I don't know. Personally I'd say "yes and no", but .. > Would they have done the same had he voiced support for BLM or Julian Assa…

> They could win everywhere but China, by explicitly choosing to withdraw their products from China. Westerner here. No, I don't want ANY political agenda in game streams. If Blizz…

I don't understand the line of reasoning here. If Blizzard wants to (appear to, if we doubt their sincerity) support a political cause, that's a decision by the company. I agree th…

Apart from the global crisis this is also quite a big subject here, locally, in Singapore and among friends in HK: Honestly I don't see how Blizzard should've reacted instead and f…

You don't use StackOverflow, ever?

I recently switched companies from one .Net shop to (kinda, sorta) another. The previous one had a big product based on a COM-turned-WCF architecture for years. WCF is dead/not a t…

> if it's so bad for privacy and isn't necessary for a CDN, does Cloudflare the CDN simply disregard ECS when receiving requests from DNS.Google, or do they take it into account? I…

I'm with some of the people on Twitter: It seems weird (to put it mildly) to just blackhole your own site with no explanation whatsoever to the end-user. For everyone on 1.1.1.1 ar…

I might have misread the GP, but I kinda felt that it also brought up the issue that a pihole (or similar solutions) might cease to work in a "DoH / I automatically pick the best r…

Just changed jobs from a job that was 10 minutes away from home, in a quiet cubicle, to a job 70 minutes away in an "open concept" office - and it's painful. Before that I worked c…