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Re:Major Azure Outage on Thursday May 02, 2019 @04:44PM (#19812677)
Same here. East US2, West US and West Europe are all affected for me.
Re:Major Azure Outage on Thursday May 02, 2019 @04:43PM (#19812660)
When I tell my clients Azure had another outage they're going to demand we move to another cloud service. Looks like I'm in for a looong couple weeks.
Re:Snowboarding for Geeks on Friday December 14, 2018 @06:36PM (#18685902)
Headphones plus a couple beers in my backpack, can never forget those.

I notice once I get a few beers in me I'm much better.

Re:Wave After Wave of Garbage Hits the Dominican Republic on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @11:46AM (#17602076)
86% of the oceans plastic comes from Asia[1].

[1] https://www.theoceancleanup.com/sources/

They could just hire more workers at $12/hr and I don't think there'd be a problem.
Re:Designing Google Maps for Motorbikes on Thursday July 05, 2018 @11:26AM (#17464004)
My car does this on the dash in front of my steering wheel. It will switch to an overhead of the lanes and highlight the one you have to take when you get close to your turn as well.

Much easier to process this than the full map on something like my phone or the map on the center console.

I had some trouble using ReadOnlySequence in a library I am writing (mostly because of no documentation). After looking through how Kestrel uses it(they started using Pipelines in ASP.NET Core 2.1) I found their BufferReader[1] class. It made using ReadOnlySequence much easier.

Overall, pipelines have been really solid for me so far. Working out how to use it without documentation was a total pain though, hopefully they get that out soon. If anyone is interested I can throw the library up on GitHub if anyone wants some real world examples of using pipelines.

[1] https://github.com/aspnet/Common/blob/master/shared/Microsof...

If you click on the article spacebar starts scrolling again. Weird.
Re:'Text bomb' is latest Apple bug on Thursday January 18, 2018 @11:02AM (#16178091)
Re:What is a Dog? on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @09:19AM (#15806931)
I think dogs will do this too.
There IS no other provider. At least not for me. And pretty much everyone I know.

We wouldn't need net neutrality if the ISPs didn't have a monopoly.

Re:How Firefox Got Fast Again on Monday November 13, 2017 @04:12PM (#15690294)
"Show Rulers" in the chrome dev console settings.
Isn't that Tylenol(the acetaminophen in it)? Ibruprofen screws up your kidneys I think.
Re:Ask HN: Is there something wrong with internet right now? on Monday November 06, 2017 @02:58PM (#15638516)
That article is from 2016.
Re:Sometimes all a maintainer needs is a “thank you” on Friday November 03, 2017 @11:39PM (#15623649)
I just started one of my first open source projects in the last few months and I've fixed ~3 issues so far. A thank you would be amazing. I'm not going to STOP fixing issues, but a thank you would really motivate me to keep it up. Kudos to this guy.
Re:Jacquard by Google transforms clothing on Monday September 25, 2017 @11:29AM (#15331232)
I would think so. It's actually illegal in my state(PA) to wear headphones while driving. Not sure about bikes though.
Re:Snapchat’s Influencers Are Fleeing to Instagram for Money on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @11:19AM (#15239068)
$7? I think you mean $.14?
Re:Introducing Bundle Compiler on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @02:46PM (#15126634)
If you could AOT compile the templates into bytecode, which has to be parsed, why not just AOT compile the templates straight to JavaScript(like Angular 2/4)?
For many Americans(including me) there is only one ISP to "choose".
Re:Kerbal Space Oddities on Friday July 28, 2017 @11:37AM (#14875005)
True, but Unity is still using an old Mono runtime.

I think they actually just released a new version that supports a more newer runtime but I doubt KSP upgraded.

Only thing keeping me from moving into Philly is the wage tax. I think within the next year I'm just going to bite the bullet and do it.
Re:Learn to Read Code on Thursday June 29, 2017 @03:31PM (#14666184)
You use async/await when you are doing any sort of IO in an application that needs to be responsive. Example: your ASP.NET thread pool is starved because all your request threads are waiting on IO. It's useless to have those threads waiting there for IO when they could be processing other requests to your server.

You're obviously going to see some overhead from the state machines generated, but that's negligible compared to the gains you'll see in throughput and code readability(compared to the older ways of doing async code).

The same reasoning extends to UWP, don't block your main thread with IO so it can still process input. Obviously there's other ways to handle async in a desktop app, but async/await just make it so much easier to reason about your async code. It looks exactly like you're writing synchronous code.

Re:Google Jobs Search on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @12:50PM (#14596197)
Off topic - but I haven't been able to right click text and bring up the context menu on google's blog for a few months now..
Re:Show HN: Password-protect a static HTML page on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @03:04PM (#14555175)
That is definitely satire.
Re:Facebook is an attack on the open web on Thursday June 01, 2017 @02:54PM (#14463304)
Can't you just have Facebook and only use it for the events/photos? I've got a Facebook but never use it for posting/looking at other people's posts. Every now and then I'll get an invitation to an event which is really all I use it for.
Re:All AMD ThreadRipper CPU's will have 64 PCIe Lanes on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @09:31AM (#14452316)
Do games actually load any faster? I went from a Samsung SSD(I think the 850 pro) to an Intel nvme ssd, and load times in games didn't seem much faster. I definitely notice it when booting up VS though.
Re:JavaScript Start-up Performance on Friday February 10, 2017 @04:26PM (#13619039)
I'm not sure the Angular 2 AOT bit belongs here. Angular 2's AOT just parses your HTML into the backing angular component classes. It's still all Javascript that has to be loaded and parsed.