Peeter Marvet

talk recording is out now!!

youtu.be/INgS4IipEhU

depends a bit on situation - my SAR / abandon-ship training sez to hold hand over mouth&nose (and use other hand to hold this hand) to avoid what feels like "brainwash" :)

America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Back On April 2nd, 2025, our president announced major new taxes on imports from foreign countries (“tariffs”), ranging from 10% to 49%. The stated goal is to bring manufacturing back to the United States ...

Best summary of why it's hard and what it would actually take to bring (some of the) manufacturing back to the US.

www.linkedin.com/pulse/americ...

small training set means weirdly biased results :) I just asked claude for SVG of "fast rescue boat" and got upside-down Noah's ark (yes, technically a rescue boat, although not very fast, but why turtling/inverted?) - would have liked some Geocities level kitsch much moare

gosh... but have you considered what are the rest of frontend devs going to do for living once AI learns that?

I spent most of time between flights at a Toronto airport QR bar trying to negotiate a purchase of single beer - no, your wifi is overcrowded, does not work; no, my mobile connection is from foreign country, you have decided to geoblock it; no, I am not going to enter my cc details to your IPad...

If it is more like vanity domain routing might be better than yet another mailbox www.cloudflare.com/developer-pl...

mul üks väike soov siiski oleks - et samuti nagu sommidel oleks meil pressikal lauatäis spetsialiste, kes ütlevad mida nad on seni teinud ja mida edasi teha kavatsevad

TechLetters Insight. Promotional/influence campaign tactics in Romanian 2024 presidential elections A curious thing happened in Romania.

My assessment of information operations and tactics used to influence elections in Romania (2024). Subliminal tactics in use. The campaign hinged on an influencer-for-hire site. It also gamed TikTok's algorithms and bot detection methods. techletters.substack.com/p/techletter...

YouTube video by VASAviation - SwiftAir DHL Boeing B737-400 Crash near Vilnius Airport

Really good animation + ATC traffic of the DHL crash on Vilnius

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaDY...

Was thinking the same couple of days ago + thinking "what are the obvious reasons I can see this process on screens facing travellers". Transparency of luggage?

pigem accident ehk kõrgus sai otsa varem kui plaanitud bsky.app/profile/gary...

STABAS (staff) is presumably rescue's mobile command post