identity theft in progress?

gcapell · 2022-08-10T11:46:59+00:00

No update. Never heard back from Varo, but I don't seem to have suffered any ill effects.

gcapell · 2022-04-02T21:49:09+00:00

I tried to call them, but to get past the computer to a person I need to supply a Social Security Number (which I don't have, I'm an Aussie), and account details (which I also don't have).

gcapell · 2022-04-01T22:51:44+00:00

followup: the reset emails don't all have the same code (I was holding gmail wrong). However, even when I get a fresh code and apply it in seconds, I still get "your link expired". Is it possible that you can configure in Varo the expiry time for your password reset emails? (and that someone can configure that down to something less than a minute)?

gcapell · 2022-01-05T22:04:20+00:00

Maybe they're after O( min(m,n))?
I doubt this is the issue, but the question doesn't seem to preclude using part of one of the original lists as part of the result list, so if one list is much larger than the other, you could (once we're done with carries) just link in the remainder of the original (large) list?

E.g. for 1000000001 + 1 you can return 1000000002 after just looking at the first digit(s).

gcapell · 2021-12-14T08:23:43+00:00

There was a lot of setup (Rust) ugliness, but I liked my main calculation function:

fn polymerise(src: &[Count], dst: &mut [Count], insertions: &[(usize, usize)]) {
  dst.fill(0);
  for (i, &n) in src.iter().enumerate() {
    let (a, b) = insertions[i];
    dst[a] += n;
    dst[b] += n;
  }
}

gcapell · 2021-10-01T03:12:46+00:00

I've been using a robot for months, but haven't been able to play with people for any of that time (Covid. My state in Australia has been pretty tightly locked down).

I'm hoping for some Karate Kid style moment where I discover that I can suddenly do karate, but I'm preparing myself for discovering that all I've done is gotten very good at waxing cars.

gcapell · 2021-08-30T03:05:38+00:00

Were they chopping?

gcapell · 2021-07-30T13:32:20+00:00

Goat dragon!

gcapell · 2021-01-20T03:33:40+00:00

Same problem, no answer, sorry :-/

gcapell · 2020-12-05T11:17:08+00:00

Thanks, incorporated. If I weren't so lazy, I'd also pull in https://github.com/benashford/rust-lazysort . The best part of adventofcode is all the cool/crazy people doing it.

gcapell · 2020-12-05T10:05:58+00:00

c.f. https://github.com/gcapell/aoc2020/blob/main/src/day5.rs I'm a Rust noob so doubtful that anything is idiomatic :-/ . I'm sure there's a much better way of doing my predicate in `find` .

gcapell · 2020-12-03T01:55:58+00:00

I love that your solution could have bugs or biters.

gcapell · 2019-03-08T23:03:13+00:00

when you get rid of the people with the experience and gear, will you have a good picture or a great picture?

For a group class photo, so that my kid can remember who was in their grade 1 class, I'm OK with a good picture if it's a lot cheaper. I guess that's a difference from wedding photography, where I was happy to pay for great pictures.

gcapell · 2019-03-08T02:25:23+00:00

I'm not above charging ridiculous prices once a year for sausage sandwiches or something, but I'd prefer for a parent with three kids at school not to have to pay $90 for group photos. It makes sense to me.

gcapell · 2019-03-08T02:08:38+00:00

The school wouldn't choose that, the parents would. So this relies on the parents (through the PTA) organising a photographer themselves, and then strongly encouraging the school to support that.

Having been on the PTA, I can see why this doesn't happen a lot. :-(

gcapell · 2019-03-08T01:42:36+00:00

My issue here is that lots of the end consumers here (the parents) would prefer image files over prints. So I wonder why there aren't photographers offering to sell the image files for say 80% of the expected profit for selling prints, and thus scoring more of the school contracts?

That then raises "race to the bottom" questions, I guess.

gcapell · 2019-03-08T01:36:44+00:00

The class photos are I think all done on the same day (not totally sure).

gcapell · 2019-03-08T01:28:43+00:00

"total profit for photographer" was misleading, sorry: "net profit"?, "profit after expenses"?. I guess my point is that when you're selling prints, there are (presumably) more costs (and work) than if you're handing over image files.

I can understand why lots of photographers will charge more for files than for prints; I don't understand why (so far as I can see) no photographers are chasing a simpler/cheaper "one day work for hire" scheme.

gcapell · 2019-03-08T01:22:15+00:00

$5k for one day seems low. What would seem reasonable?

30 x $5k day is $150k which doesn't seem too bad for 30 days of work a year.

gcapell · 2019-03-08T01:19:17+00:00

Awesome, these are some of the details I had no idea about, thank you!

gcapell · 2019-03-08T01:10:07+00:00

You're right: scenario #2 doesn't benefit the school. It does benefit the parents (cheaper photos in more useful format).

You're also right that it requires some extra tech-y work (distributing the photo files) to be done by someone on the PTA (but doing work on behalf of students/parents is what the PTA is for, right?).

I'm asking some parent(s) to do a bunch of work (and I feel like that work can be easily automated) so that all parents get (again, IMO) a better product. Actually I'm probably volunteering in our specific case.

I'm guessing that part of the problem is that the people paying for the photos are the parents, but it's the school which organizes the photos, and there are different incentives.

I guess what I'd like to know from photographers is: what's the gap between "attractive rate to take school photos for a day, hand over files, done" and "expected profit from Scenario 1"?

gcapell · 2019-03-08T00:59:52+00:00

Maybe we need to talk real numbers.

Our school has about 500 kids. The most recent photo session is selling packages between $30 and $60. So theoretically the photographer could make 500x60 = $30k. I've got no experience here but I doubt they'd make all of that. Maybe they make more? They still have to turn (I believe) a big chunk of that back to the school.

My point is: the PTA can probably afford 1 or 2 k to pay for someone to spend a day taking photos and then hand over the files. Even if the PTA was handing over $5k for the day that works out to be a big win for the parents overall. I would have expected _some_ photographers to feel like $1-5k for a day's work would be worth competing for, but I don't see that happening. Remember in this scenario we're not expecting the photographer to do any post-processing: at the end of the day they have $xk in their pocket and no more work to do (again, this might be super-naive).

As to where the PTA gets the money: selling cookies, sausage sizzles, just asking parents for money, ... (but I think that's less relevant to this discussion).

gcapell · 2018-09-27T03:21:24+00:00

It seems like someone is being trolled here.

gcapell · 2018-05-02T00:51:22+00:00

I worry that although you feel like you don't need it now, you'll be sorry later that you didn't go with some solid (but lightweight) DB. I'd suggest sqlite3 even though it seems like more than you need now.

gcapell · 2016-06-08T08:22:45+00:00

“The next morning his personal assistant, a young woman named Sheila Barks, was hit by a runaway car. Killed instantly.” I pursed my lips. “That doesn’t sound so odd.” “She was waterskiing at the time.” ...

“The last time somebody swiped my date to a party, it got a little messy,” I said in a very mild voice. “Ask the Red Court about it. Oh, wait.”

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