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by superice 3y ago
I don't think the DMA factors into it too much. In the Netherlands, AirBnB got fined for billing service costs both to renters and landlords. I think the legal term was 'serving two lords' or something along those lines. Dutc
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by superice 3y ago
Yep, using it for my small software company. We used Jira before, and while we had a halfway decent config so it didn't suck too badly, Linear is just light years ahead in terms of usability. I take a lot of inspiration from how they a
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by superice 3y ago
It’s pretty much irrelevant. You can stack containers vertically easily, and height difference doesn’t matter that much (8’6 vs 9’6 are the two common sizes). Below deck you have a hard cap because of hatch covers, but above deck you’re onl
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by superice 3y ago
Does not matter if you can’t move that much power to container terminals. You presumably don’t want to put a nuclear plant in every port. Even if you consider the battery problem to be solved at scale, you just don’t quite appreciate the en
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by superice 3y ago
It does make sense. The problem is scale. There is an inland barge in the Netherlands that does this with 4 20ft battery filled containers, capacity is about 200TEU if I remember correctly. The problem is charging. Charging up 4 containers
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by superice 3y ago
Writing end-to-end UI tests to validate a certain behavior and then automatically resolving a ticket once those tests pass seems really cool though. Not sure how realistic in practice, but it's definitely an interesting concept.
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by superice 3y ago
Story time! When I was a much more junior programmer I once received a call from a client, who asked me if I could double check the code sending the container weights from a container terminal to the ship planning system. She explained a ca
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by superice 3y ago
Sure, that makes sense in a Redux app where you can use FP techniques as you see fit. How do you do that in something strictly functional like Elm? As I understand it 'local state' or a component handling messages locally is not r
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by superice 3y ago
This seems awfully similar to the Elm model of managing state. Perhaps it's me being unenlightened, but I never understood why all state in an application needs to be managed centrally. Take a select box for example, its open-state is
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by superice 3y ago
It seems to be because the sensation induced in the mouth is literally that of heat. I remember Adam Ragusea on his excellent YouTube channel pointing out that capsaicin makes the mouth much more sensitive to temperature. So funnily enough,
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by superice 3y ago
Don't forget that included in that $1200 number there is also the rent of the container, which covers well over that 14 days since you need time to stuff and strip the container with cargo on both sides of the ocean leg.
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by superice 3y ago
Definitely. Commercial pricing for a move of a container from ship to shore and vice versa ranges between 30 and 70 euros here in Europe (Rotterdam/Antwerp). Even if you compare fuel usage against inland barges, which capacity-wise are
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by superice 4y ago
It is something to sneeze at. That’s about 10 shipping containers. Current gen container ships can hold 15-25k twenty foot containers. Even inland barges are typically 10x bigger than this.
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by superice 4y ago
It works two ways: one is that you can go lower in frequency (e.g. bigger wavelength) if your dish is bigger, the other is that you just capture more of the signal. If you take light as a metaphor, a bigger lens will just provide more &#x27
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by superice 4y ago
We use antennas which are incredibly directional for Mars rovers. Compare a regular lightbulb vs a flashlight with a lens. Total light emitted might not be that different, but the intensity at the same distance (or how far the light reaches
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by superice 4y ago
The harsh truth of the matter is that in B2B software engineering, you can usually get away with providing a shitty product, then charging to fix the bugs you introduced. It's worse than 'clients aren't willing to pay for a p
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by superice 4y ago
The problem I have with this is always the “when is it enough”? Setting is speed limit of 130 is not unreasonable. But the exact same arguments apply for a speed limit of 120. Or 100. Or 80. Or 60. Or 30. It basically the same as the Apple
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by superice 4y ago
In the end it comes down to “don’t negotiate with terrorists”. If they disagree with the policies that’s fine, they can bring it up at a meeting. Call a meeting even, showing you’re willing to listen to their input is important. But you‘ve
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by superice 4y ago
As somebody in the industry: You're absolutely right. The other way to look at it is that there is a lot of low-hanging fruit, and it is a multi billion dollar business opportunity.
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by superice 4y ago
Right now the market is decentralized to a decent degree. The core business of Maersk is operating ships, and managing their equipment (containers). Their core business traditionally was NOT the hinterland transports from and to the ports.
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by superice 4y ago
Precisely. I'm saying 'good riddance' to TradeLens, and I'm saying what a shame that effort by Maersk and other big carriers hasn't been put into one of the problem spaces where this might make sense.
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by superice 4y ago
As somebody in container shipping: good riddance. There are a handful of sensible people who have been calling this out for years and years, and every time there are wishful thinkers telling them this is the future. The worst of it is that
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by superice 4y ago
This Veritasium video touches upon the same phenomenon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cNmUNHSBac
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by superice 4y ago
Yep! And we had to make a decision whether we would focus on our core business of developing great applications for end-users, or spend more time running infra and try to wrap our heads around the mountain of complexity that is k8s. That ch
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by superice 4y ago
That's fair enough. We took a look at 'native' AWS, but there are a multitude of reasons why just dealing with AWS at all is a huge upfront time investment too if you don't hire somebody already skilled at this (complica
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by superice 4y ago
Yeah, definitely! This is why I am not that harsh of Kubernetes as a tool at all, I'm just saying that it's not suitable for us for these reasons. In our context of <4 FTE of dev power it just isn't worth the manpower we h
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by superice 4y ago
Yes! My startup of 5 people did. We started out with a managed Kubernetes cluster on DigitalOcean, but there were a number of reasons that caused us to not be very comfortable with that setup. - Taking random .yml configs from The Inte
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by superice 4y ago
It's not just them being nice, it's the law! As an employer you legally cannot deny a request for working part-time unless you have a halfway decent reason. In my case I was able to start working 32 hours a week at my previous emp
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by superice 5y ago
It's just a security measure. As a founder of a currently 4-person company, I want SSO everywhere I possibly can. It reduces attack vectors, and makes it so much easier to ensure nobody has access when they leave the company. Every pro
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by superice 5y ago
Absolutely right, until you have multiple instances of backends you need to deal with and synchronize, which is a pain in the behind. The OPs main issue seems to be with that problem, which is the tough component of using something stateful

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