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braveyellowtoad | 3 years ago | on: On Trucking

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.

braveyellowtoad | 3 years ago | on: Video Stabilization with FFmpeg and VidStab

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.

braveyellowtoad | 4 years ago | on: Fredrik Lundh has died

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.

braveyellowtoad | 5 years ago | on: You don’t need all that complex/expensive/distracting infrastructure (2019)

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.

braveyellowtoad | 5 years ago | on: Goldman Sachs: Bank boss rejects work from home as the 'new normal'

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.

braveyellowtoad | 5 years ago | on: How this Ends

But which way is it going to go? Is there a set of investments that will benefit off either outcome?

braveyellowtoad | 5 years ago | on: “I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure”

Hm in the corporate world, looking up people on LinkedIn is pretty par for the course. As a consultant with a large consulting firm, I meet with lots of different people. Since I have LinkedIn premium I can see who is looking at me. I’d say easily half the people I meet look me up before the meeting, and I do the same. It’s just curiosity and trying to get some background.

What would be weird is sending me a message through there before the meeting. If we are speaking using another channel (like work email accounts), stay on that channel. This is what has gone wrong in this case.

No worries with sending a connection request after our meeting “nice to meet you today and looking forward to collaborating, cheers”

As a side note it’s always funny when we are in the middle of a meeting and a notification pops up that they have looked at my profile. It’s like “hello... pay attention... I’m right here...”

braveyellowtoad | 5 years ago | on: Man to pay £25,000 ($34,000) damages over negative TrustPilot review

That depends, is there a requirement for the solution to be free?

If you are happy to pay for this, then there are a variety of options with a sliding cost/usefulness/accuracy scale.

If you are looking for reliable, accurate, balanced reviews conducted by anonymous ethical independent agents, and you don’t think consumers of that information should pay for it, then I believe the answer is there is no perfect solution that satisfies all those constraints simultaneously.

braveyellowtoad | 5 years ago | on: I don't want to do front-end anymore

Yeah agreed on all counts. React apps are a real joy to create. The UI just works like magic with reactive updates. Modern js tooling gives me a fun and effortless way to produce user interfaces.
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