maglite77

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by maglite77 11mo ago
Does anyone have links to "how-to's" for Linux in the enterprise? Password/MFA management, central app management, the equivalent of group policy, device management, etc.? IME, these are the areas in the enterprise where
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by maglite77 1y ago
Something I'm surprised this article didn't touch on which is driving many organizations to be conservative in "how much" AI they release for a given product: prompt-jacking and data privacy. I, like many others in the t
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by maglite77 2y ago
Just tested on an older (2015) Intel UHD 620 GPU (integrated), and surprisingly all the demos except one hit ~45FPS and up. The first one - Big Forest - struggled to get ~10fps, and was extremely laggy.
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by maglite77 2y ago
Meh...the phrase "deep dive" has been around forever, not sure what about that phrase specifically gives "AI generated" vibes? For me, I just read through those and focus on the content quality of the article - "ver
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by maglite77 2y ago
Noting that Azure Blob storage supports e-tag / optimistic controls as well (via If-Match conditions)[1], how does this differ? Or is it the same feature? [1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage&#
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by maglite77 2y ago
Previous MSFT employee of about 7 years (left about 3 years ago) - this was totally not true. In fact, we were encouraged to make non-competing contributions and I worked with several peers that had very successful open source projects.
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by maglite77 2y ago
While I'll agree the "eye candy updates" may not be there (apart from marketing-driven AI additions and visual updates), there are some big features that aren't visible until you enter the enterprise space. For example,
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by maglite77 4y ago
It's been ages, but this use of unions reminds me of the VARIANT structure definition from Windows OA/COM: [1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/oaidl/ns-...
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by maglite77 4y ago
Always have been. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_service
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by maglite77 8y ago
Disclosure: Engineer at Microsoft There is an excellent Network Academy video on YouTube [1] that covers some of the internal implementations of the layer-4 load balancers (in the context of HA for NVA's). [1]: https://youtu
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by maglite77 8y ago
Many of these concerns seem to not be limited to Javascript at all - especially once you're sending/receiving data between systems. In Python for example, when receiving JSON/XML payloads you have the same defensive parsing l
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by maglite77 9y ago
One area I would argue benefits greatly from this type of formal treatment is the specification of business rules in software. I can be quite insightful to formally spell out requirements from the business, and then apply converse/inve
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by maglite77 10y ago
[Disclosure: I work for Microsoft] One thing to keep in mind for Azure SQL: you are getting a guaranteed SLA [1], business continuity and full point-in-time backups (up to 30 days) [2] for that price. To compare effectively you would need t
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by maglite77 11y ago
Also, remember that even building a "simple" web app (comprised of a browser (client), web server, and database) counts as a distributed system. Concerns over event ordering, lack of global time, and data consistency models are al