seymore_12

Dov'è la gomma? :-)

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.

All models are wrong, but some are useful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong

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.

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.

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...

An important reason for intergenerational conflict is that older generation offers mostly advice, while young generation expects an examples.

>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

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...

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.

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...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_efficiency

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".

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.

Excellent question to which there is no easy answer.

There is no site available that can give a price for which you are sufficiently sure you are getting competitive rate for which the shipment will be actually performed in the time needed. None. Closest you can get is inquire via some of the ocean carriers, 4PL sites, but you have to do this carrier by carrier and yet often you don't get comprehensive number.

Pricing in this industry is extremely opaque, indices quoted here are for the most part rough estimations, representing someone's hopes and dreams.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-54922374 from the article "As of 1996, about half of the countries in the OECD allowed companies to deduct bribes paid to foreign officials from their taxes, including Germany, France, Australia, New Zealand and Switzerland. They argued that such practices were routine business expenses in some countries."

one more: https://www.reuters.com/article/swiss-bribes-idUSL8N2HX5BV

Majority of shipping/trading documents are formalized under EDIFACT standard for example, this is the layout of Bill of Lading/Shipping Instruction, so called IFTMIN https://service.unece.org/trade/untdid/d04a/trmd/iftmin_c.ht...

One of the possible reasons for TradeLens demise is that they choose to ignore them and came up with their own data structures (Json) i.e. partners that are usually EDIFACT capable had to practically start from scratch to comply with TradeLens format.

At some point TradeLens realized that and started partially accepting EDI feeds, but it was too little, too late I guess.

Agree. I can add to this the retailers Migros, Coop and digitec.ch (amazing). We are so used to the quality of their services, that we take them for granted.

At least on my searches with Google Flights, Wizzair shows up as a carrier for EU flights. Good search engine for low cost EU carriers is https://www.azair.eu/

Article is wrong. The rule for max 2 container height stacking was for areas *outside" of the port/terminal, i.e various container yards hinterland.

Ocean carrier i.e. Shipping line in 99.9% of the cases There are few shippers that own containers, so called shippers owned containers (SOC) but they are minority

Should be shipping only, container is just the box that is used to ship your cargo in and you don't directly pay for its usage

"a leading world center for research on coronaviruses" presumes some form of uniqueness amongst potential other similar facilities

If we apply Occam's razor [1] decision between "Wuhan, however, is home of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a leading world center for research on coronaviruses" and "Wuhan, there is a wet market where under certain conditions virus can jump from bat to monkey to person" is relatively straightforward

But then, we should probably also apply Hanlon's razor [2] "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor

The term for this is "moral licensing". It is dangerous path i.e. I jogged 30 mins, I can have this Snickers bar now...

Do you have a source to backup that statement? It is true that there are separate containers for PET in CH, problem the way I see it, is that people simply do not know which bottles are PET and throw in there all kinds of plastic. Sometimes, when I throw mine, I take 5 and watch what the others are throwing, essentially, if the bottle has this 3 arrows "recycle" sign, it goes in the PET basket, simple as that.

In the mirror.

Right now I enjoy reading The Coming Plague https://www.amazon.com/Coming-Plague-Emerging-Diseases-Balan... Written 1995, but incredibly actual. Shows that most of epidemics are function of political will and economy and vice versa.

“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

Well, Kodak tried to breed it's own cows, to control the quality of gelatin (used in film manufacturing) https://www.fastcompany.com/1806686/way-kodak-died Did not work that well.