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Comment · 3 months ago
I’m not so sure mocking is really that on point, a tool used to understand avalanche safety should be safe. The product copy highlights safety and the value of providing a recommendation instead of having to collate and synthesize different data yourself.

Avalanche risk and its management are unknown to me, but not to ski patrols, experienced backcountry trekkers, scientists, and national weather services of many countries, etc. I saw no evidence of trials to test to see how the technology performs against real conditions.

If you can’t trust this product’s recommendations within some margin of safety then it’s value proposition disappears.

Why not market it instead as an experiment and seek some way of collecting data to improve the process or develop a model fine tuned to the inputs?

Comment · 3 months ago
Is it just me, or does it seem extremely dangerous to market: “Strata doesn't just show the data. It makes the call.”

The page states it’s powered by Claude with nothing I could see that relates to its performance, metrics, processes, testing, etc. for something expected to be used in a safety application.

Comment · 7 months ago
Comment · 11 months ago
Yes, this site usually publishes emails released into the public record via court cases.

This exchange is cited as:

  [This document is from Tennessee v. Meta (2024).]
Comment · 1 year ago
Azure Network Availability Issues

Starting at approximately 16:00 UTC, we began experiencing Azure Front Door issues resulting in a loss of availability of some services. We suspect that an inadvertent configuration change as the trigger event for this issue. We are taking two concurrent actions where we are blocking all changes to the AFD services and at the same time rolling back to our last known good state.

We have failed the portal away from Azure Front Door (AFD) to mitigate the portal access issues. Customers should be able to access the Azure management portal directly.

We do not have an ETA for when the rollback will be completed, but we will update this communication within 30 minutes or when we have an update.

This message was last updated at 17:17 UTC on 29 October 2025

Comment · 1 year ago
yes, and it seems that at least for some login.microsoftonline.com is down too, which is part of the Entra login / SSO flow.
Comment · 1 year ago
It is interesting to see the differential across different tenants in different geographies:

- on a US tenant I am unable to access login.microsoftonline.com and the login flow stalls on any SSO authentication attempt.

- on a European tenant, probably germany-west, I am able to login and access the Azure portal.

Comment · 1 year ago
Would this also be true for electrostatic speakers as well? Though would probably would require greater gain/amplification or, potentially the application of some kind of bias voltage for the capacitive diaphragm of the speaker.

Just speculation based on the shared operating principal with condenser microphones

Comment · 1 year ago
This comment captures a lot of important detail about echolocation.
Comment · 2 years ago
Or possibly, this was the smallest tool change possible. Saving costs by not having to redesign parts like the glass, etc.
Comment · 2 years ago
Many embedded systems use SWupdate to manage this, which can hook into uboot.
Comment · 2 years ago
Data warehouse, even data lake, I can imagine a meaning for. Without context, what is a lakehouse?
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
I might recommend sending to the landing page or a description, I am not sure how many folks will install a TestFlight without more information.

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