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I hope the parent commenter would comment now

any points serious enough to merit a reply?

wasnt it super slow?

I have used DDNS before, but totally unfamiliar with what you refer to in your comment. Care to elaborate a bit?

I have used a couple of OneDrive family accounts to host some media files that I wanted to preserve (yt video downloads, academic courses and papers collected from questionable soruces). What are the chances MS blocks access to my data in the next 1 year?

render the pages server-side (for best performance) and then do some further updates client-side.

I am curious, how does this imapct SEO?

What are the learning projects that have best helped you grow?

Is UPI one of the rare times when a government organization has created an innovative technology that works for a scale of 100 Million+ users?

If the universe is expanding outwards, are these voids also moving similarly? I just cant ever seem to reconcile the expansion theory with the theory of galaxies/voids merging or colliding.

They were too early would be my guess. In my opinion, embedded in today's time is easy and robust. Your thoughts?

Is there a blog or resource page I can refer to learn more about this?

It probably isnt and it should become an integral part of Microsoft Gaming within 3-6 months. There is nothing dramatically different between it and other gaming projects/units in MS Gaming. This is not a large enterprise acquiring a startup and letting them run independently.

CEO within CEO is for separate Business Units or divisions, which is clearly not the case here.

I wonder how much of this was driven by Nadella. MS has made some brilliant purchases recently.

Thats what I thought. A CEO reporting to a CEO isnt going to end well.

Anywhere I can read more about this?

Sitting in a 3rd world country, I am amazed at the service people in 1st world countries get and crib about.

Indeed, I would love to get more details on what all went into it, and how far can we stretch such a SBC.

EDIT: evidently, not far

disheartening to see this downvoted. I come here for relatively neutral discussions.

Now why is this comment being downvoted. The last few nooks of the internet are being invaded by thought police.

7. He talks about Narendra modi rallies. Seriously ? He took rallies in the states where elections being conducted by Indian election commission, like all all other political parties he has to support his party. This is saying like Biden cannot take election rally while Trump goes on giving daily speeches. Importantly, do you see the state of Westbengal where election allies happened in the top ?

He is the head of the nation. The larger the power center, the larger the responsibility. This guy literally boasted about the size of the crowd less than 10 days back, in the bang middle of the pandemic.

He deserves to be tried for murder, as well as the election officials.

6. And do you know you need a permit and negative covid test report to participate in this religious event ? [6]

We dont have capacity to test the number of people who were attending the Kumbh mela daily. 10k tests may be the capacity appx, while appx 10 million people will be attending over a month.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/over-9-1-million-p...

Please understand India as reported by media is way different from the ground reality.

https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/health/kumbh-amid-covid-...

wearing a mask wont do jackdiddly if you organize large gathering with 100,000 people.

NYC sent the elderly, covid positive people to nursing homes, where they died. Is that not a breakdown?

I hope and pray its not 10x and only 5x. You might be right about the state wise discrepancies, sadly don't think we will ever know the real picture, as even crematoriums are fudging records in many places. So much for being better than China.

Btw since this is HN, might there be a way to approximate the number of deaths from the size of one's social circle and the number of circle members who have passed away from covid?

I agree with the first part, but the one with the biggest power center must also take the biggest responsibility. When the literal head of the nation gleefully boasts about the size of the election rally crowd during a killer pandemic wave, yeah, its on him.

As for people running for hospitals, a primary reason (as per a doctor who treated my dad for Covid) is that people are ignoring symptoms for days (over a week at times) after which virus does enough damage that only option they're left with is getting oxygen assistance.

Hospitals will give the same protocol as people are following at home. In fact add the empathetic environment of home with proper food (compared to the sheer lack of care in any hospital right now), and people are recovering faster at home. Yes, there are many cases though where people had serious damage and they neglected to go early. Just saying this issue is complicated and I can understand why someone would hesitate to go to a hospital with 99F fever and slight bodyache.

Kolkata has a 54% positivity rate now, and nobody is able to get tested due to lack of testing infra. Just because it wasnt reported, doesnt mean it didnt affect.

Protests were in Jan/Feb. Cases rose April. Larger gatherings happened in March and April for elections and religion.

Please take your one sided narrative elsewhere.

Ground reality-

* 400,000 new infections reported yesterday. Number of deaths is being suppressed- 10x more deaths than reported. Crematoriums everywhere are overflowing, yet only 3k deaths per day as per official record.

* Basic resources like Oxygen, Meds (Favipiravir, Remdesivir, Monitors), Hospital beds keep running out in many cities and towns. Everything is on sale for 2-10x the official prices. For example, Remdesivir selling for Rs 20,000 ($300) instead of Rs 2,000. Ambulances charging Rs 25,000 for a half hour transport, instead of Rs 2,500.

* Beds are a tragedy. People are dying in their cars (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/noida/no-bed-in-4-n...). Day rent for beds in nursing home corridors (yes, actual narrow corridors) are selling for an amount equal to the average monthly salary of a middle class citizen.

* The government organized election rallies and religious gatherings and overruled the concerns of many educated voices over the last 2 months. Lockdown in election bound states was only announced yesterday, once all rallies and multi-phase election was finished. Votes/Power over lives, that's the mantra. One head of state went as far as to pass an order declaring anyone posting stories of O2 shortage will be prosecuted and arrested. (https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/covid-up-hospitals-defy...)

* People have stepped up as the govt has abdicated responsibility, sharing resources on their stories and working all day to verify their availability by calling hospitals and crematoriums. However the scale of the tragedy is immense and people who could have been saved are dropping like flies. This wave is affecting 40, 50 year olds, without any comorbidities. Apparently the strain is a double mutant (mutation of the strain from UK), and now a triple variant is also being reported.

* EDIT- Also for the sake of PR, the central govt sent more than half the vaccine produced abroad. Apparently the concept of stockpiling and reserves isn't common knowledge with the Indian political elite. So today we are at a situation where we are importing the vaccines we had exported, as we are desperately short on stocks and there is no relief in sight. Only 1.9% of India's population has received 2 doses of the vaccine. Long story short, many people will die.

If I'm watching a random YouTube video and then want to switch to music, I expect my music app to come up, not YouTube Music.

Umm what? Why is it google's responsibility to ensure their youtube music video is linked to spotify's audio song listing?