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braveyellowtoad··on How to lose a fortune with one bad click
Interesting. Was that after you called them or they called you?
braveyellowtoad··on Flipper Zero Self Destructs an Electricity Smart Meter
> But people already paid for them and I failed to deliver those to them

I may be missing something, but shouldn’t you be giving them to the people who paid for them?

braveyellowtoad··on The EU AI act is coming, this time for real probably
Could you please clarify: is your position that software is not capable of doing harm?
braveyellowtoad··on AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my projects
I agree with you. However, it’s worthwhile also noting these represent a very small proportion of all jobs in software development.
braveyellowtoad··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··on Please don’t film me in 2023
Interesting. Is uploading a video like this to tiktok or YouTube considered commercialisation?
braveyellowtoad··on Ask HN: Main things to consider when building an app for business/enterprise?
Thank you
braveyellowtoad··on Ask HN: Main things to consider when building an app for business/enterprise?
Thanks for sharing. Do you know of any auth providers that charge based on auth event (login / logout / password change / etc) rather than per user?
braveyellowtoad··on 60% of home compostable plastic doesn’t fully break down
Love your thinking. Rather than comingle the plastics with waste, let's keep them separate at the landfill for use when future humans figure out what to do with it.

By mixing it all together we just make it much more difficult for ourselves later.

braveyellowtoad··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··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··on Google has a secret deal with FB called “Jedi Blue” that they knew was illegal
Woah, so if a user is logged into chrome, Google has permission / is able to track all web activity for that user?
braveyellowtoad··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··on Red Flags I Saw While Doing 60 Technical Interviews in 30 Days
Every auction has a time limit
braveyellowtoad··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··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··on Show HN: M1 Chart – The stock market adjusted for the US-dollar money supply
Technological advances continue to increase the productivity of agricultural output both in “the first world” and lesser developed countries.

In this way, I expect the prices of consumer goods like foodstuffs to continue to decrease over time.

We are living with economic theory that was posited when the most advanced computer was a slide rule.

braveyellowtoad··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··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··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.
braveyellowtoad··on Show HN: Clerk – all of user management as-a-service, not just authentication
Out of curiosity, why are cookies preferred to local storage ?
braveyellowtoad··on Ask HN: Who has started a successful side business while having a full time job?
I respect your effort. Out of curiosity, do you have a partner / children? If yes, how do you balance your family with work/entrepreneurship? If not, do you think people with family commitments can/should use their free time on side projects? (As for me, I work similar hours to you and have a wife but no kids. I think my side projects will have to stop when the kids come along; my wife is already sad that instead of spending time with her I choose extra work that is unpaid in the short term and may never result in a financial reward for our family.)
braveyellowtoad··on Ask HN: What are you working on?
Thank you. This is really needed. Have you considered having community supplied component library? Also have you considered premium elements that are richly documented? The official Apple docs are poor so it would definitely be worth a premium to get access. The vast majority of iOS development is the same stuff over and over with slightly different colours or backgrounds or effects. If you could get navigation, onboarding/login/password reset screens, maps, api queries bound to components, you’d have 80% of the app and developers could instead focus on the critical bits that add real business value. I’ll definitely follow your project.
braveyellowtoad··on You might not need jQuery (2014)
You seem to know quite a bit about this, do you know why there isn't some sort of a "compile" phase where the jquery examples wouldn't be translated into the minimum js equivalent? Seems like then you could get the same syntax and minimum size.