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Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by progmetaldev »

gianpaj wrote: post #208

Can't download VSCode :D Error: visual-studio-code: Download failed on Cask 'visual-studio-code' with message: Download failed: https://update.code.visualstudio.com/1.105.1/darwin-arm64/st...

I have had intermittent issues with winget today. I use UniGetUI for a front-end, and anything tied to Microsoft has failed for me. Judging by the logs, it's mostly retrieving the listing of versions (I assume similar to what 'apt-get update' does, I'm fairly new to using winget for Windows package management).

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by panarky »

ceejayoz wrote: post #603
esseph wrote: post #593

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seeing your ballot drop in a box is no indicator the vote is actually recorded in the grand tally, or what was recorded for your vote.

My county lets you look up if it was received. You can vote on Election Day in person if they don’t.

My county sends me a text message when they've counted my ballot.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by speakfreely »

DontBreakAlex wrote: post #480
conductr wrote: post #467

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is voting there a one day only event? If not, I feel the solution to that particular problem is quite clear. There’s a million things that could go wrong causing you to miss something when you try to do it in a narrow time range (today after work before polls close) If it’s a multi day event, it’s probably that way for a reason. Partially the same as the solution to above.

In europe, voting typically happens in one day, where everyone physically goes to their designated voting place and puts papers in a transparent box. You can stay there and wait for the count at the end of the day if you want to. Tom Scott has a very good video about why we don't want electronic/mail voting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI

Voting seems like one of the few problems that blockchain is actually the solution for.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by OhioMan2943 »

brendoelfrendo wrote: post #542
tmtvl wrote: post #535

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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, s…

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Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by OhioMan2943 »

0xbadcafebee wrote: post #505
ape4 wrote: post #62

2026: the year of your own metal in a rack

2027: the year of migrating from your own metal to a managed provider 2028: the year of migrating from a managed provider to the cloud 2029: the year of migrating from the cloud to your own metal in a rack People keep thinking the solution to their problems is to do something new (that they don't fully understand). TIL it's called Nirvana Fallacy

Just experienced this with moving around multiple states and universities in the past year :) Grass really was greener in my hometown

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by Sammi »

speakfreely wrote: post #623
DontBreakAlex wrote: post #480

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In europe, voting typically happens in one day, where everyone physically goes to their designated voting place and puts papers in a transparent box. You can stay there and wait for the count at the end of the day if you want to. Tom Scott has a very good video about why we don't want electronic/mail voting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI

Voting seems like one of the few problems that blockchain is actually the solution for.

Nope. Blockchain has no anonymity.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by dijit »

Havoc wrote: post #555
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…

Hetzner seems sound, but I doubt they play in the same reliability league as google

Probably not, but at least you don’t delude yourself into thinking reliability is a solved problem just because you’re paying through the nose for compute and storage.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by belorn »

samtp wrote: post #585
vasco wrote: post #562

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They both share the fact that you don't see your vote enter a ballot box.

Well "mail in voting" in Washington state pretty much means you drop off your ballot in a drop box in your neighborhood. Which is pretty much the same thing as putting it in a ballot box.

In Sweden, mail/early votes get sent through the postal system to the official ballot box for those votes. In 2018, a local election had to be redone because the post delivered votes late. Mail delivery occasionally have packaged delayed or lost, and votes are note immune to this problem. In one case the post also gave the votes to an unauthorized person, through the votes did end up at the right place.

It is a small but distinct difference between mail/early voting and putting the votes directly into the ballot box.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by sleepybrett »

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 washington we have a 100% mail-in voting system (for all intents and purposes). I can put my ballot back in the mail or drop at any number of drop-boxes throughout the city (less dropboxes in rural areas i'm sure). I think there are some allowances for in-person voting but I don't think they are often used.

There is a ballot tracking system as well, I can see and be notified as my ballot moves through the counting system. It's pretty cool.

I actually just got back from dropping off my local elections ballot 15m ago, quick bike trip maybe a mile or so away and back.

Of course, because it makes it easy for people to vote, the republicans want to do away with it. If you have to stand in line for several hours (which seems to be very normal in most cities) and potentially miss work to do it that's going to all but guarantee that working people and the less motivated will not vote.

So yes in places that only do in person voting, national or state holiday.

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