Interesting. These are great projects to get them to understand how Linux works, and networking works. I might direct some of the more talented ones to hackernoon. Really good suggestion. Thank you!
But I think the question the parents (and to some extend) the kids asking themselves is if this matters. If it is just a game or hobby, then thats nice to kill time. But how does this work impact the "real work"? They are comparing "working in IT" with working as a vet or becoming a lawyer. They (at least the parents) have concepts what these people do.
But there is a demographic for whom all software is totally abstracted to the point where they don't see it and I am hoping for a way to open their eyes so they see. Wow it really is everywhere. Any product needs it! This is really useful!
> If it is just a game or hobby, then thats nice to kill time. But how does this work impact the "real work"?
Play is how we learn, especially with children. Games and hobbies aren't nice ways to kill time, they're methods of learning new things and practicing skills.
I totally agree. And a lot of them really love coding. Thats how I meet them. Its a game for them, and as they are kids, I think it should stay a game for them.
Its just that they dont understand (and I am struggling to tell them) what these skills will be useful for in their adult life. For parents it is really important. They want their kids to have fun. But in the same time they are worried if their kids are going to succeed in life.
They are comparing "working in IT" with working as a vet or becoming a lawyer.
In my opinion it has more to do with teaching critical thinking skills vs. memorization. That is why I try to make sure people learn the concepts rather than just remembering manual pages. Critical thinking has benefits in many aspects of many career fields. The goal in my example is to start with something fun yet a little challenging that requires experimentation with things one can not find in documentation to bend the system, bend the rules and hopefully bend their way of thinking outside of the box.
Does licensing from smaller actors happens much in practice? It feels to me as there is a huge asymmetry of the ability of corps either infringing the patent directly, or circumventing it vs an individuals budget for infringement discovery and lawyers. I wonder even if bigger players like universities have much success in licensing their IP.
When you come from other cloud providers, working with Azure has so many dark-orange flags. It feels totally inconsistent and patched together. This makes it hard for me to believe that anybody can properly audit it for security.
The most uncomfortable part is their log in. The amount of re-directs and glitches there are insane. Its hard to believe that it works as intended.
As an example, for some reason I could not download the BAA because trying to download it lead to a login loop on their trust website, while I was still able to see the Azure console ok in the same browser.
When I signed out of my Azure account to try if a fresh login helped, it did not trigger my 2FA at the next login. In my mind, if I actively logged out from a browser window, I withdraw my trust in that device. So not being triggered for 2FA is a massive red flag.
(no I still could not download the BAA, nor file a ticket for it, but somehow a colleague could download it ok.)
On every first try, I cannot log in into Azure Portal. I chlick "try again", it works. And it's like that for months, if not years.
IMHO it says a lot of your culture if every first interaction of your customers with your product end with an error - and you simply don't care to fix it.
I have a similar (yet different) experience. I rarely (e.g., once every few months) log into the portal and it dies with some impenetrable error if I use the same browser on which I last successfully logged in. So I often find myself firing up an incognito browser so I can log in.
My guess is that some change to the login process is not compatible with the cookies I have sitting around from the last time I logged in.
Every login I've ever done into the Azure portal is like the upstream describes: an absurd number of redirections and refreshes that leave you wondering "is it supposed to work like that?"
I've also encountered strange bugs, like asking to log into tenant A and getting logged into, instead, tenant B. In a loop, effectively locking me out.
The exact quirks and bugs seem to come and go, I presume as the code is changed & updated.
Sure, but Azure also exposes an extremely large array of knobs and buttons that put the tenant admin squarely in control of what "login" means in the first place: the kinds of authentication allowed or required, by whom, under what risk profiles, for which applications, etc. If you feel like it is screwed up there is, as likely as not, action that it is the tenant admin's — not MS's — responsibility to take, to fix it. I don't know what to tell you about refreshes, that's just how Oauth works mostly. I'm tempted to take a video of myself logging into the Azure portal right now just to ask what about it is so weird.
Will add my anecdotal evidence: I've seen this across the board from Microsoft. I've been a customer for several decades, and it is a bit of a nightmare now.
Logins that redirect to odd places. Jolting issues because you changed a seemingly innocuous security setting (i.e. OneNote refuses to sync on specific versions of the app/software if you don't grant them full access). Or just inconveniences, like having to login multiple times across their own sites when I dive into Office settings management. Seemingly forced use of the Microsoft Authenticator app from time to time.
Multiple computers, multiple devices. I can usually work around it, but it is a pain.
I would guess it is a problem with OP's account. Which is to say it is thoroughly a Microsoft problem, and probably one that could be fixed but would require weeks of back-and-forth until someone with direct access to some number of auth databases corrected the issue.
I will say, they made a change to the auth system recently that made log-in significantly worse. Now several times a day my session expires or something and I go through a 5-10 second redirect flow which visibly jumps between different login APIs to refresh my log in state. (And of course this happens at the start of the day.)
It's also possible your tenant admin updated Conditional Access rules for some locations or applications. Or maybe they screwed up the Hybrid AAD sync from the on-premise DC. As I've been trying to point out elsewhere, tenant admins have a much higher influence on these outcomes than people are willing to admit, and there are a lot of admins out there who can't be arsed to keep up. I've made some of those mistakes myself.
It is probably my "fault" by using Safari (no extensions) and not the all-praised(tm) Edge.
I couldn't add a billing profile to my MPN account the other day - endless loading without any indicator of success. It did work in Chrome though, except the "save" action which resulted in endless loading too, but still saved everything as expected.
> It feels totally inconsistent and patched together.
I believe that multiple article, e.g. on The Register, has mentioned that people who have left the Azure team has routinely complained that the pace was to high, and that everything is pretty much duct taped together. This was years ago, so it may have changed.
I have had similar issues. And I know a fair amount about these systems, and still cant figure what the backend mess looks like that results in these problems. I found a reproducible login bug on Teams and spent a while trying to figure out who to report it to and gave up
When you promote a Windows server 2016 or higher) to a domain controller, you suddenly get error message when trying to open the network adapter through the "new" settings app. You must open through control.exe, everything else just throws an error.
I opened bug with the Microsoft Premier support and they told me that this works as intended.
So when Microsoft says, it works as intended, it can still be bugged to hell and back. They just don't care.
It really depends on what you use this for. For recreational use on novels, high-quality human narrated audiobooks are surely still worth the money. Good pod-casts and radio-shows are overwhelmingly research, curation and writing combined with an engaging narration.
This will only do narration, and the engagement is probably still not 100% there yet (sorry cant try it right now).
This kind of thing is very useful to consume high-level information on the side, while driving, cooking, gardening or doing exercise. So it can be useful to make previously curated and written content more accessible. Including content people have curated themselves, or got a bot to curate for them.
For example, I listened to the entire FT weekend edition while cycling on the weekend, using their text-to-audio function. This allowed me to take in even parts of the paper I normally do not have time to read. Before the advent of the text-to-speed function, I would have to chose between health and information. Now I can have both.
That does not mean that day long power outages are impossible. Especially not locally.
For example, storm Arwen in 2022 left lots of communities without power for many days https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications/storm-arwen-report . Admittedly not because of power generation, but because of transmission lines being cut by falling trees.
I have been thinking about this a lot. Its quite easy to find arguments to having kids that bring benefits to parents and / or the parent generation in general.
I dont have a philosophy background, so I would be really interested to hear arguments for what benefits an unconceived child receives from being conceived in todays world.
Even when assuming that not all outcomes are necessarily going to be bad, there is a real risk that they will experience a really troubled world. What justifies exposing someone intentionally without their consent to that (any?) risk of suffering?
I've noticed that very few of the pronatalist ideologues focus on the lived experience of the children after they're born. They consider it very important for people to have lots of babies but absolutely no concern for the babies after they become people. Thus the massive effort to ban abortion in the US but absolutely no concern for the life of the mother. She's already been born, after all.
Beliefs and their specific holidays are an interesting facette of a diverse workplace that I feel is often overlooked in hiring for oncall and 24/7 jobs.
No need to have to shutdown the business or for employees to skip every second Christmas, Diwali, Ramadan, Friday prayer, Sabbath etc if you have colleagues from other religions cover for you.
> The system will also deactivate when other requisite conditions are not met, as well as when an emergency vehicle is detected, when approaching toll roads, in construction or special regulation zones, or _if a pedestrian or cyclist is detected_
Wait for the abuse other road users will get for causing the expensive autopilot to switch off.
He does move characters on, because time moves on. Things get bigger, but themes remain very similar in at least the first 3 books. Similar to your description of The Wheel of Times books, I found the Pillars of the Earth very good, but the sequels were less exciting (I still read books 2 and 3 and bought the 4th one).
But I think the question the parents (and to some extend) the kids asking themselves is if this matters. If it is just a game or hobby, then thats nice to kill time. But how does this work impact the "real work"? They are comparing "working in IT" with working as a vet or becoming a lawyer. They (at least the parents) have concepts what these people do.
But there is a demographic for whom all software is totally abstracted to the point where they don't see it and I am hoping for a way to open their eyes so they see. Wow it really is everywhere. Any product needs it! This is really useful!