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by superice 5y ago
Generally rail + last mile truck is cheaper. It takes longer however, which increases capital costs: goods stay in container for longer, so you need more of it to fill the ‘longer’ pipeline so to speak. And there is the issue of economics,
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by superice 5y ago
Yes and no. Yes because you can't run a ship carrying some containers on a certain line as often, which means that the wait after missing a ship is likely going to be bigger. But also no because fundamentally the problem of having 10 d
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by superice 5y ago
I have no clue, never have heard of that happening, but then again, I never bothered to ask. I suspect that customs issues would be the more common use case to not actually want to pick up a container though. The fees are not usually due on
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by superice 5y ago
Yes, this is definitely my personal experience shining through: my primary experience is with inland terminals which predominantly handle barges. In the Rhine-delta (the Rotterdam/Antwerp hinterland) this is much more common than rail
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by superice 5y ago
Actually, I had this write-up lying around which I wrote for somebody involved in building a container terminal simulation game: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQYtBzhkogHUvn2z... It's prett
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by superice 5y ago
Yes, probably! This is directly related to the detention issue: many containers stay on the same chassis from pickup at the empty depot until they get delivered at the sea terminal. Equipment to handle containers properly is not cheap (thin
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by superice 5y ago
It is incredibly interesting to me, yeah. I’m not going to lie, I have 25 pages of a book sitting around in my Google Drive, but I quickly realized two things: 1) this will be the most boring book in existence, and requires a much better w
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by superice 5y ago
Expert here: I'm a consultant for small to medium size container terminals and various hinterland container logistics operations. This article is a pretty good introduction to the subject, but could go further into the economic interes
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by superice 5y ago
One often hears the counterargument 'but using DB-specific features makes your application less portable!' to which I like to argue: When was the last time you moved an application from SQL-db to SQL-db engine? Follow up question:
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by superice 5y ago
That’s lovely. But it’s not going to be the 400 TEU that Rhine barges do. Trains in Europe are about 90 TEU, with them being capped by terminal handling capacity and legal maximums. Rail length at terminals in LA seem to be similar to Rotte
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by superice 5y ago
Actually, I think barge transport is a much larger contributor than rail in the modal split of hinterland operations in Europe. Both Rotterdam and Antwerp have huge barge modal splits and large hinterland terminals, often trimodal.
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by superice 5y ago
Inflation is a "tax" on owning money, an equalizing force if you will. Deflation is a "tax" imposed that benefits large holders of the currency on people who hold less or none of that currency. There is ofcourse also the
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by superice 5y ago
Sure, some people get too frail, but in general being in physical shape is NOT a requirement to cycling as a means of transport (as opposed to a sport) in the Netherlands. Especially e-bikes are helping out a lot in that regard. The questio
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by superice 5y ago
They don’t. You see elderly people on bikes all the time here. They just happen to have fewer places to go after retirement.
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by superice 5y ago
The + operator doesn’t work on arrays, but tries to cast the sides of it to a string. Arrays implement the toString function, which shows the toString of the individual values comma separated. An empty array returns an empty string. Which m
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by superice 5y ago
Under Dutch law: sure they can. As long as you had no reason to suspect it was a stolen TV (super low price, no receipt even though it was basically new, stuff like that) a party that bought the TV second hand is now the legal owner even if
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by superice 5y ago
Let's face it, that is not going to happen. I can barely get bluetooth audio to work on my desktop, a truly functional purely linux ecosystem for phones that my mom can use is at least a decade away (if possible at all).
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by superice 5y ago
In the meantime you should obviously have it serve a page that is nothing but a #000000 background
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by superice 5y ago
I use a similar technique, combined with meticulous time tracking of every and any minute I spend professionally. As somebody who is self-employed, I quickly realized that working 8+ hours per day is an absolute myth. I count any day where
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by superice 5y ago
DSL is indeed a joke, but Ziggo cable and KPN fiber together have near universal availability these days. Cable isn't that much more expensive than a dedicated fiber but tends to come bundled with TV and phone only. This paints a prett
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by superice 5y ago
Pff, I pay €40/month for my 1Gbit/s FttH Tweak connection. You’re painting a very bleak picture, but NL internet isn’t that bad unless you only have an old ADSL-style phone line, and that is rare nowadays.
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by superice 5y ago
I responded by saying 'why would I bring any here if I can consume legally at home?'. That is apparently not the right answer...
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by superice 5y ago
Okay, evil shower thought: why not actively start abusing this on a massive scale, claim as many copyrights as you can automatically so Google has to address this? If they don't do anything, you put the 'stolen' revenue in a
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by superice 5y ago
In Europe we have internet providers who 'helpfully' send you boxes you plug into your wall sockets and allow you to use your electrical infra as network cables. Lovely concept, you don't have to run your own network cables.
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by superice 6y ago
That really depends on the high school in question, in NL the mandatory curriculum is laughably bad, mostly due to a lack of competent CS teachers. We teach JavaScript, basics of HTML and CSS, React & React Native, PHP (although I’m try
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by superice 6y ago
I’ve only taken a glance, but as a CS-teacher of 16 and 17 year olds, this looks great! I have no clue how to target high school teachers with ads, but if you can, this’d probably be a very interesting niche! (Although SQL isn’t fashionable
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by superice 6y ago
Yes it does. It takes about 20 seconds to place a call. If a mission critical system goes down, customers will refresh a grand total of 3 times, then call. As I explained in the sibling comment, reporting downtime within a minute is the dif
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by superice 6y ago
Internally it's about accuracy of reporting. If you do high uptimes (say >99.95%) rounding starts to matter. If you want the less bureaucratic version: downtime for mission critical apps means customers call. Immediately. If your Sa
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by superice 6y ago
Might be a little off-topic, but I don't understand why monitoring solutions are both so expensive and simultaneously tend to offer such a low resolution. HTTPS-calls aren't particularly computationally expensive, why does 10s or
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by superice 6y ago
REST usually has the same content in your request replacing the entire resource on a PUT, or returning an identical thing on a POST. There is no difference in the schema of the JSON (or XML) you send and receive. As a sibling comment said:

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