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Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by johnfn »

dullcrisp wrote: post #619
hshdhdhehd wrote: post #549

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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.

In the US getting milk involves driving multiple miles, finding parking, walking to the store, finding a shopping cart, finding the grocery department, navigating the aisles to the dairy section, finding the milk, waiting in line to check out, returning the cart if you’re courteous, and driving back. Could take an hour or so.

Yes, or you do it on your drive back from work, and it takes 3 minutes.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by guptadagger »

everfrustrated wrote: post #301
llama052 wrote: post #258

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Please migrate off of front door. It's been a failure mode since it came out historically. Anything else is better at this point

Didn't the underlying vendor they used for Azure Front Door go bankrupt? It's probably on life support.

i understood that to be a different third party that provided a CDN and was different than afd. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/frontdoor/migrate-cd...

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by yellow_postit »

Sleaker wrote: post #572
vanviegen wrote: post #500

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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…

Please lookup US voting poll overflow issues that come up every election cycle. Just because you experience a well streamlined process doesn't mean that it's the norm everywhere.

Don’t forget you can’t dare offer water or food to those stuck in lines else that’s considered tampering in many (all?) locales in the US.

Mail in voting is just better all around for a geographically diverse place as the US and I wish would be adopted by all states.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by ransom1538 »

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.

I was shopping at a mall with a visa vanilla card once. I got it as a gift and didn't know the limit. No matter what I bought the card kept going -- and I never got a balance of what was on the card. Eventually, later that day it stopped. I called customer support and asked how much was left on the balance. They told me they had no idea my balance - but everything I bought was mine.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by 0_____0 »

jeffrallen wrote: post #510
Uehreka wrote: post #87

I noticed that Starbucks mobile ordering was down and thought “welp, I guess I’ll order a bagel and coffee on Grubhub”, then GrubHub was down. My next stop was HN to find the common denominator, and y’all did not disappoint.

You know you can talk to your barista and ask for a bagel, right? If you're lucky they still take cash... if you still _have_ cash. :)

I was at a McDs a couple months back and I'm pretty sure you had to use the kiosk to order. Some places are deprecating the cashier entirely.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by stevenwoo »

Freedom2 wrote: post #581
sampo wrote: post #566

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> If India can have voters vote and tally all the votes in one day, then so can everyone else. In most countries, in the elections you vote or the member of parliament you want. Presidential elections, and city council elections are held separately, but are also equally simple. But in one election you cast your vote for one person, and that's it. With this kind of elections, many countries manage to hold the election…

How is it not possible? It's just additional votes, there isn't anything actually stopping counting by hand, is there? How was it counted historically without voting machines?

It takes a lot of people (redundancy and to keep shift hours low to increase count accuracy) to accurately count by hand. https://verifiedvoting.org/election-system/hand-counted-pape...

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by praccu »

dang wrote: post #327
pants2 wrote: post #149

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Good thing HN is hosted on a couple servers in a basement. Much more reliable than cloud, it seems!

Just don't use genetically identical hardware: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32031639 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32032235 Edit: wow, I can't believe we hadn't put https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32031243 in https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights . Fixed now.

Many years ago (13?), I was around when Amazon moved SABLE from RAM to SSDs. A whole rack came from a single batch, and something like 128 disks went out at once.

I was an intern but everyone seemed very stressed.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by wyre »

yellow_postit wrote: post #653
Sleaker wrote: post #572

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Please lookup US voting poll overflow issues that come up every election cycle. Just because you experience a well streamlined process doesn't mean that it's the norm everywhere.

Don’t forget you can’t dare offer water or food to those stuck in lines else that’s considered tampering in many (all?) locales in the US. Mail in voting is just better all around for a geographically diverse place as the US and I wish would be adopted by all states.

Rule of thumb: if Republicans are against it, it’s probably a good thing for everyone else, like mail-in voting.

So excited to see how the right-wing pedants here disagree with this.

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Post by wanderingmind »

hshdhdhehd wrote: post #547
hinkley wrote: post #490

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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.

From mandatory voting to preferential voting, australia seems to have figured out what this works best for democracy.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by jmspring »

The outage was really weird. For me, parts of the portal worked, other parts didn't. I had access to a couple of resource groups, but no resources visible in those groups. Azure Devops Pipelines that needed do download from packages.microsoft.com didn't work.

The Microsoft status page mostly referenced the portal outage, but it was more than that.

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