seymore_12
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Comment · 6 months ago
Dov'è la gomma? :-)
Comment · 9 months ago
I’m interested in ocean container shipping, so I built a Google Sheets add-on to automate the process of tracking shipping containers. It’s called Container Tracker and I just got it live on the Google Marketplace. https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/container_track...
Main workload is done by the backend (serverless functions).
I am currently working on a HubSpot extension (that uses same backend) with the goal to target few other platforms where users work, and integrate the functionality into their daily workload, as opposed to having it as standalone website or mobile app. I have fun doing it.
Comment · 1 year ago
All models are wrong, but some are useful.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong
Comment · 1 year ago
Honest question. Shouldn't this internet banking that offer authentication as a service do it via at least mandatory 2FA for log in. I would guess that way fake bank sites would be failing?
I dont have many banking relationships, using 2 banks and there is not even a password to remember, all login is done via authentication apps.
Comment · 1 year ago
Grok gives this as an excuse for answering "The surgeon is the boy's mother." :
<<Because the surgeon, who is the boy's father, says, "I can't operate on this boy, he's my son!" This indicates that there is another parent involved who is also a surgeon. Given that the statement specifies the boy's father cannot operate, the other surgeon must be the boy's mother.>> Sounds plausible and on the first read, almost logical.
Comment · 2 years ago
In my opinion, port costs never go down with automation. If anything, they go up when automation is deployed (this essentially means unmanned reach stackers, more cranes and eventually new TOS (Terminal Operating System) to compensate investment.
This is interesting document (PDF) with port performance index for 2023. Page 11.
https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/0990603241145396...
Comment · 2 years ago
An important reason for intergenerational conflict is that older generation offers mostly advice, while young generation expects an examples.
Comment · 2 years ago
>Approximately 100% of CVEs, crashes, bugs, slowdowns, and pain points of computing have to do with various forms of deserialising binary data back into machine-readable data structures. All because a) human programmers forget to account for edge cases, and b) imperative programming languages allow us to do so.
This. One year ago UK air traffic control collapsed due to inability to properly parse "faulty" flight plan: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37461695
Comment · 2 years ago
Just because ship can carry nominal value of 15K TEUs, it is very hard to estimate how many containers are currently on board. Also, empty container looks exactly like the full container from the outside, looking at the ship.
One very interesting aspect of ship operations is the art of stowage of containers. The complexity associated with it is substantial. 3D large scale Tetris. This is a good introductory article https://www.shippingandfreightresource.com/container-stowage...
Comment · 2 years ago
This!
I don't mind seeing some ads. In fact, they could be very useful, if they are relevant. Google knows enough about me to do this.Instead, I am regularly getting things I really don't care about, plus increased amount of videos where Roger Federer look alike is being held in cuffs. Who does that and why Google is not filtering them.
Comment · 3 years ago
Top ocean carriers (including Maersk) are mature and well established organizations. For what concerns their core activities, that is transporting of containers from A to B across oceans, short sea and occasional inland, they are Pareto efficient [1]
The surge in the transportation services demand during COVID couldn't be resolved by additional hiring and was offset by increase in freight rates, hence the enormous profits. They couldn't resolve surge demand by hiring, as their bottleneck was and still is the land infrastructure, sea ports, terminal (in)efficiency, inland transport to which they have little control of.
Maersk decided to become vertically integrated carrier and started acquiring various companies, including last mile delivery services, custom's brokers, air freight capacity etc. This, in my opinion, contributed to the increase in the headcount.
Other carriers followed the Maersk acquisition spree...
Comment · 3 years ago
Great book indeed. My favourite quote from it is: "The name of the game is not to always be right, but to be right often enough".
Comment · 3 years ago
This. I witnessed it today. I was running out of washing powder, still keeping the old box (6.5 kg, promotional price 25.95 chf sticker). Went to COOP (CH retailer), again "promotion" of Ariel, same price, but the box is now 4.8 kg.