News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on UPS’s $20B Problem: Operations Stuck in the 20th Century. Parent comment

Re:UPS’s $20B Problem: Operations Stuck in the 20th Century by konschubert on Sunday June 17, 2018 @08:53AM (#17332151)
I'm sure the difficulty is not in solving the optimal packing. Any decent heuristic is probably good enough.

The difficulty is to build a machine that can physically put the parcels into the truck.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:UPS’s $20B Problem: Operations Stuck in the 20th Century by gomox on Sunday June 17, 2018 @09:33AM (#17332297)
Indeed. Most likely the way to go would be to build a truck that parcels can easily be put into by a machine.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:UPS’s $20B Problem: Operations Stuck in the 20th Century by jacques_chester on Sunday June 17, 2018 @03:44PM (#17333940)
Oh, I hadn't thought of that. Good point.

Elsewhere I complain that software folks think they're smarter than everyone else. And here I am proving it :)

[ Parent | on HN ]