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If Amazon didn't want people to hit Refresh every 45 seconds on their parcel tracking page, they shouldn't have added a map showing the truck's location when it's a few mere miles away from your door.
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And to make it performant, they will use the help of a cache... which will be invalid every 1 second and therefore you need to press ctrl&shift&F5 while sending an sms to the pope  
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I live in a fourth floor apartment and I can watch out my window as the truck goes from building to building while I'm hitting refresh.
The truck can be right out front and the system still says that it's several stops away.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: The truck can be right out front and the system still says that it's several stops away.
I queried this with one of the drivers some while ago. He said it was to protect the driver from potential hijacks. If the criminals go to the place where the truck "appears" to be, then they will be disappointed.
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I can state with certainty that often I can see the that truck is exactly where the system says it is.
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Different strokes for different folks.
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Maybe you live in a bad neighborhood. 
More likely they lie to the drivers.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: The truck can be right out front and the system still says that it's several stops away.
As far as I'm concerned, a "stop" could very well constitute a delivery (to others in the same apartment building)...not necessary a "truck stop".
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My experience is that the system updates the driver location every time they scan a package as being delivered. So the location on the map is where the driver last completed a delivery, but the truck is actually moving to or at the next delivery location. It may delay it by some amount or report a couple stops back to protect the driver.
I live about 6 miles outside a small town. By tracking my packages I have learned the delivery route usually taken. When I see the truck at one spot on the map I can pretty much predict the next neighborhood it will move into. So much for driver protection. If I get the notification that my delivery is getting close, I can usually figure it means that it will be delivered within the next 90-120 minutes.
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Yes, it can!
Turns out the customer purchased Azure Stack HCI, a substitute for VMWare (which it is replacing).
Yes, our software is ready to run in VMs, just as it was before
I'll have to explain tomorrow how their choice to switch from VMWare to Azure Stack HCI matters nothing at all to me.
If only they went for Azure Stack Hub, which gives you the Azure portal and PaaS solutions that you know from the cloud variant.
I think this image sums it up nicely: Azure vs. Azure Stack[^]
modified 6-Mar-24 0:53am.
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I knew there was a lot out there but...MSN[^]
"Ten men in the country could buy the world and ten million can’t buy enough to eat." Will Rogers
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I'm waiting for it all to go "boom" like a nuclear chain reaction.
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Kinda like this[^]
"Ten men in the country could buy the world and ten million can’t buy enough to eat." Will Rogers
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Cool demo.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Thanks. Very amusing. It put a smile on my face.
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I was trying to figure out why the Russians would want a nuclear anti satellite weapon.
If it wraps the EMP around the world covering part of the sphere, it'd be every satellite near enough in that orbit. If they lost command and control capability it might be a bunch of falling stars at once.
It would really really tick off a whole bunch of people though.
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At least humans are... consistent? 
Jeremy Falcon
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Space exploration is just the search for another planet we can move to when there's nothing left to destroy on this one.
"Ten men in the country could buy the world and ten million can’t buy enough to eat." Will Rogers
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WALL·E (2008) - IMDb[^] says "Hello"
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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That's too cynical for me. Space exploration is becoming focused on mining resources elsewhere besides our planet.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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Regulation of added debris is a must.
Space is big but not unlimited unless you go really deep.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Deep subject
"Ten men in the country could buy the world and ten million can’t buy enough to eat." Will Rogers
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 easy one
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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The problem is that we want that junk to be there!
Well ... not as junk. But we are very excited about those operations leaving junk up there. For example: Which IT guy is critical to StarLink, planning up to 42,000 satellites in space, because it contributes to the space junk? Which free-market, free-competition guy is negatative when five competitors to StarLink each want to put another set of 40-50,000 satellites in the sky?
We are not willing to sacrifice unlimited communication capacity just to reduce the amount of space junk.
We are not willing to sacrifice free competition just to reduce the amount of space junk.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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I agree. The new stuff will probably have to be able to dodge debris if staying long in orbit.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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