braveyellowtoad

Interesting. Was that after you called them or they called you?

> But people already paid for them and I failed to deliver those to them

I may be missing something, but shouldn’t you be giving them to the people who paid for them?

Could you please clarify: is your position that software is not capable of doing harm?

I agree with you. However, it’s worthwhile also noting these represent a very small proportion of all jobs in software development.

Yes that’s correct. If you were owner operator you might be aligned with a particular firm (their name on your truck) and their dispatch would find you loads or you would also know people. You could have a dry van and look for generic loads but lots of guys I knew had specialised equipment (flatbed, tanker, etc) and over time you locked in good lanes and repeat customers. I met a tanker driver once who started in Florida, took orange juice to Canada, picked up some food ingredient in Canada , drove it to somewhere in Tennessee then took something from there to Florida. And repeat. He did that triangle for 10 years. Shipping used to be a real people business. If you had an unusual or unexpected load you’d call your 5-10 providers and they might have capacity or not, or do you a favour and call their buddies for you or not. That would almost always work out, if it didn’t you’d call the sales person from the new 3pl or trucking company who had been wanting your business and he/she would move mountains to get that chance. Definitely an interesting industry full of problems to solve. Don’t think it’s the same any more.

Interesting. Is uploading a video like this to tiktok or YouTube considered commercialisation?

Thank you

Thanks for sharing. Do you know of any auth providers that charge based on auth event (login / logout / password change / etc) rather than per user?

Love your thinking. Rather than comingle the plastics with waste, let's keep them separate at the landfill for use when future humans figure out what to do with it.

By mixing it all together we just make it much more difficult for ourselves later.

You have a good point and this does seem to be evolving industry practice. Sony does this in a few of their recent cameras. And Blackmagic just released a new firmware for certain Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Cameras where gyro data is stored in BRAW and then Davinci Resolve has gyro-based stabilisation. It’s not perfect, it’s not magic, it’s not a substitute for a gimbal, and there are some real limitations but that aside the results are shocking. My understanding is that rotations can be very well corrected (as it’s same camera position) but translations are not as successful. Also you typically need to shoot with higher frame rates and there is a significant crop on the resulting image. All that being said I use this frequently and my handheld casual shots are much much nicer now.

Fredrik, your work inspired me greatly and your post “notes on Tim Bray’s Wide Finder” taught me how to think better about processing data, which made me pretty good at it, which created my career in data. Thank you - you had a huge impact. Rest in peace and sincere condolences to your family and friends.

Woah, so if a user is logged into chrome, Google has permission / is able to track all web activity for that user?

Yep. All of us tech folks read sites like hackernews and read all about what the latest hot Silicon Valley tech startup is doing. Or what Uber is doing. Or what google is doing. Or what Amazon is doing. And we want to be cool as well so we jump on that new technology. Whereas for the significant majority of applications out there, older less sexy technology on modern fast computers will almost certainly be good enough and probably easier to maintain.

Every auction has a time limit

It won’t die out. People like money. Analyst IBD roles represent not only some of the best compensated roles out of Uni, but puts on a path to a long well-compensated career either at GS or another bank. Or an exit opportunity. And the young folks that go into these roles probably busted their butts at Uni after busting their butts at high school. They are ready for it. And once you get in the culture you get normalised to it.