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Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by christkv »

jfengel wrote: post #509
vanviegen wrote: post #500

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a Dutchman, I have to go vote in person on a specific day. But to be honest: I really don't mind doing so. If you live in a town or city, there'll usually be multiple voting locations you can choose from within 10 minutes walking distance. I've never experienced waiting times more than a couple of minutes. Opening times are pretty good, from 7:30 til 21:00. The people there are friendly. What's not to like? (Excep…

In the US, hours-long lines are routine. Not everywhere, but poorer places tend to have fewer voting machines and longer lines. We've been closing a lot of polling places recently: https://abcnews.go.com/US/protecting-vote-1-5-election-day-p...

Voting machines slow down voting from what I understand

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by brendoelfrendo »

tmtvl wrote: post #535
hinkley wrote: post #490

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Voting days should be a national holiday.

Here in Belgium voting is usually done during the weekend, although it shouldn't matter because voting is a civic duty (unless you have a good reason you have to go vote or you'll be fined), so those who work during the weekend have a valid reason to come in late or leave early.

In the US, where I assume a lot of the griping comes from, election day is not a national holiday, nor is it on a weekend (in fact, by law it is defined as "the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November"), and even though it is acknowledged as an important civic duty, only about half of the states have laws on the books that require employers provide time off to vote. There are no federal laws to that effect, so it's left entirely to states to decide.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by reaperducer »

david422 wrote: post #172
Jamie452 wrote: post #52

Currently standing in a half closed supermarket because the tills are down and they cant take payments

IIRC, the grocery chain I worked for used to have an offline mode to move customers out the door. But it meant that when the system came back online, if the customers card was denied, the customer got free groceries.

IIRC, the grocery chain I worked for used to have an offline mode to move customers out the door.

Chick-fil-a has this.

One of the tech people there was on HN a few years ago describing their system. Credit card approval slows down the line, so the cards are automatically "approved" at the terminal, and the transaction is added to a queue.

The loss from fraudulent transactions turns out to be less than the loss from customers choosing another restaurant because of the speed of the lines.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by antonkochubey »

bpye wrote: post #484
multiplegeorges wrote: post #445

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> At this point I'd rather use GCP over Azure and I have zero seconds of experience with it. TBH, GCP is very good! More people should use it.

I haven't used much of GCP, but I have had a good experience with Cloud Run and really haven't found a comparable offering from the other clouds.

Isn’t ECS Fargate pretty much the same thing?

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by hshdhdhehd »

hinkley wrote: post #490
foresterre wrote: post #464

It still surprises me how much essential services like public transport are completely reliant on cloud providers, and don't seem to have backups in place. Here in The Netherlands, almost all trains were first delayed significantly, and then cancelled for a few hours because of this, which had real impact because today is also the day we got to vote for the next parlement (I know some who can't get home in time befor…

Voting days should be a national holiday.

In Australia there are so many places to vote, it is almost popping out to get milk level if convenience. Just detour your dog walk slightly. Always at the weekend.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by sodafountan »

Shuddown wrote: post #456
agency wrote: post #246

So that's why I can't check in for my Alaska Airlines flight... https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/digital-transform...

Pretty much every single Microsoft domain I've tried to access loads for a looooong time before giving me some bare html. I wonder if someone can explain why that's happening.

I was wondering the same thing

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by hshdhdhehd »

hinkley wrote: post #490
foresterre wrote: post #464

It still surprises me how much essential services like public transport are completely reliant on cloud providers, and don't seem to have backups in place. Here in The Netherlands, almost all trains were first delayed significantly, and then cancelled for a few hours because of this, which had real impact because today is also the day we got to vote for the next parlement (I know some who can't get home in time befor…

Voting days should be a national holiday.

In Australia there are so many places to vote, it is almost popping out to get milk level if convenience. (At least in urbia and suburbia) Just detour your dog walk slightly. Always at the weekend.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by hshdhdhehd »

Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #399

Google cloud run or cloudflare workers it is. Personally I am thinking more and more about hetzner, yes I know its not an apples to orange comparison. But its honestly so good Someone had created a video where they showed the underlying hardware etc., I am wondering if there is something like https://vpspricetracker.com/ but with geek-benchmarks as well. This video was affiliated with scalahosting but still I don't t…

Are you after nines? Maybe do multi provider?
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