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American Airlines has the largest loyalty program.
In last week’s report to shareholders they project it will grow to $1.5B in pre tax revenue, against a total 2025 pre tax revenue of $54bn (50bn passenger revenue).
The core business of airlines is still airlines. Optimizing TRASM & CASM, with tremendous effort on upsell and cross sell of premium services (seats, bags, food), at every point in the passenger flow.
I’ve read of political influence on the market basket to lower the reported rate of inflation by the incumbent party, but I’m not educated enough on the topic to give an opinion on if it happens.
The article is definitely written from a "high tech" industry lens. A mid-sized utility might spend $80-$150 million USD on IT capital projects in a year, but $2b on power pole maintenance. Utilities are a strong example, but any large enterprise manufacturing company is spending more on factory upgrades that programming.
> [...] built a functional replica of approximately 95% of Slack’s core product in fourteen days using LLM agents.
IT and Finance leadership and asset heavy companies are currently trying to wrap their head around the current economics of their 100+ SaaS contracts, and if it still makes sense with LLM powered developers. Can they hire developers in house to build the fraction of the tool they use from many of these companies, save on total cost and Opex?
I work with these companies a lot, and won't weigh in on the right decision. Bottom line "it depends" on many factors, some of which are not immediately obvious. The article still holds weight regardless of industries, but there is some nuance (talent availability, internal change cost, etc.) that also have to be considered.
I had a small crack in the rubber seal around my sunroof from parking outside in the elements. When it rained, water seeped in, made its way down the a-pillar, pooled under the seat, and fried the computer.
Expensive fix but I was able to drive it to the shop.
It has a great story (allegory) about a pottery class, which was shared here in the past. Six sentences. Worth a read:
Older sets had larger foundational and platform pieces which gave a good starting place for new creative builds.
Today, airplanes fuselages, wings, and car chassis are instead built up piece by piece.
It’s hard for my 6 year old to start creative builds that are stable when he hardly has any pieces larger than 2x6 across dozens of sets.
My wife found a huge mixed bin from the 80s and 90s at an estate sale. It really helped.
This is legitimate.
I have to use:
- iMessage & SMS for most US based family, casual friends and co workers. - WhatsApp for European Family - Signal for one group of friends - Telegram for another group of friends
Every time I message someone I have to remember what app to use. It’s annoying. This in addition to random threads that pick up with the same people on instagram, discord, etc., which I try to redirect to our “standard” channel as aggressively as I can.
Deltahedra has extremely impressive tutorials on YouTube. No fluff -- no long intros or filler -- 30-60 minutes of dense content, clearly explained: https://www.youtube.com/@deltahedra3D
There was a cool fact in there that he sees every price tag as the opportunity cost with compounding interest.
I started the year reading the first five books of the Foundation Series (book #1 on the list). A must read for anyone who hasn’t read it. I couldn’t believe how well it held up 70+ years later(!!)
I just finished the 3 Body Problem trilogy, and think it’s appropriate book #2 (The Dark Forest) is on the list as it’s probably the best — but all three are great.
I’m now ready Project Hail Mary. It’s been a long time since I read the Martian,but Andy Weir’s writing style is fast paced and practically a screenplay already. It’s obvious from the first chapter why it was picked up for a movie.
A tip for new users: The default theme is a bit harsh. I was able to port my Alacritty theme and other config by feeding the config file to an LLM (along with the Foot documentation). It generated a configuration that was 80-90% correct and only required about five minutes of manual fixes.
The result is now visually identical to my Alacritty setup, but Foot feels faster.
I haven’t thought about it since I set it up, three years ago. 100% reliability, seamless handoff between APs.
Can you expand on why?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_language_is_a_dialect_with...
In the preface to the 4th or 5th book (which were written 30+ years after the “original” trilogy) he discussed how the originals parts of the trilogy were published as a set of short stories in a SciFi publication over 8 years, and later compiled into the books.
I was astonished.
Perhaps everyone else already knew this. But such a clear narrative through line to be written in discrete short stories. Very impressive.
It sounds like this may have been common prior to this era as well.
One thing that's unclear to me in how I might manage this "side-by-side coexistence": how you manage potential route conflicts, e.g., You have a Hologram "page" that defines `route "/hello-world"`, and the Phoenix application router.ex also defines a route, `live "/hello-world', MyApp.HellowWorld, :index`.
I could imagine the lack of a central router may be offset through conventions of how you organize pages (perhaps a directory-based-routing convention). I saw in the Installation section that it's common to organize under `app/`, and `app/pages`. Maybe an expansion on best practices for larger project organization, and how you keep Hologram routes straight, would be interesting to other people as well.
Regardless, I've just started dipping my toes in the elixir and phoenix ecosystem about 3 months ago, and it's been a real joy. I'm throwing every hobby project I can think of at it to learn more. I'll give hologram a spin -- thanks again for such clear documentation.
I was inspired and went on to play one of the games listed on IFDB tagged “short” and “recommended for beginners”. (Suveh Nux).
Also super fun and satisfying to beat!
But when asking for a full feature, I lost a full day trying to get it to stop chasing its tail. I’m still in the “pro” free trial period so it was using a frontier model.
This was for a Phoenix / Elixir project; which I realize is not as robustly in the training data as other languages and frameworks, but it was supposedly consuming the documentation, other reference code I’d linked in, and I’d connected the Tidewave MCP.
Regardless, in the morning with fresh eyes and a fresh cup of coffee, I reverted all the cursor changes and implemented the code myself in a couple hours.
To me it feels inauthentic.
Based on early comments, which say it makes sense, I’m an outlier.
However, this shifts from something that had semantic value (not saying Apple used Semver, but there were linear major and minor versions) to marketing driven version numbers.
While still higher, I believe these are all very reasonable prices — perhaps just not as mind blowing. I’m optimistic for the future.
https://www.faa.gov/faq/faa-getting-rid-air-traffic-skills-b...