"The passenger accommodation aboard Hindenburg was contained within the hull of the airship (unlike Graf Zeppelin, whose passenger space was located in the ship’s gondola)."
I've very carefully hoarded photos. I don't miss the photos, but I really miss the meta-data, more-so for scanned real photos. I loved photography back in the day, and so took a lot of film photos. Even having scanned them in I've ended up with meta-data around the scan or import date, rather than actual data.
And, anything from a digital camera will be missing things like GPS location, which phones include and I think is great. I've used location search so many times to find photos. I can't always remember when we went somewhere, but pretty often someone will ask about a photo from a trip to X place, and then location search finds it easily.
Photos themselves have bounced between iPhoto, Aperture, Photos, etc but largely remained intact.
The library is backed up to the usual 3 places: a local server (nightly rsync to a ZFS array), stored in iCloud, and in Backblaze, so hopefully safe. And of course, all are on my laptop too.
I've long wondered how much HN karma I could farm by keeping track of the top-X HN blogs and auto-posting the links with a bot.
There are also a number of other blogs I read that are semi-regularly on HN and aren't on the list that I expected to be. Maybe just didn't quite make the top 100, and I'm over-indexing on my personal preferences. eg. Matt Levine's Money Stuff crops up semi-often, and Bret Devereaux of ACOUP gets most of his posts on HN.
My father was gifted a pair of these for his 50th birthday, would have been 1989, in London.
Little ICE scooters. They were a lot of fun and not very safe. We had drunk guests damaging themselves in the street.
They became toys for my brothers and I, who had plenty of accidents but learnt to ride them reasonably.
The engines didn’t idle particularly well and had no gears. You had to pull start, hop on and go quickly while reving just enough to idle without it moving. It took practice. You could push start too with some practice, especially once warm.
Lots of fun, but mileage wouldn’t have been great for serious use and refilling a pain at a regular petrol station. Might have been 2-stroke, I can’t remember. Tiny engine, closer to a strimmer than lawnmower.
Huge fun though for just bombing around on as a tween and young teen.
I have been particularly irritated in the past where people use a lower log level and include the higher log level string in the message, especially where it's then parsed, filtered, and alerted on my monitoring.
eg. log level WARN, message "This error is...", but it then trips an error in monitoring and pages out.
Probably breaching multiple rules here around not parsing logs like that, etc. But it's cropped up so many times I get quite annoyed by it.
"It could have overwhelmed cell towers, toppling New York City’s cell service and preventing every Manhattan resident from accessing Google Maps."
Seems odd that the most important use they can highlight for cell service in NYC is accessing Google Maps. Not accessing 911, not some other vital use of cell service, but Google Maps.
NYC is full of free Wifi all over the place. So many McDs, Starbucks, and other restaurants and sites you can get Google Maps anywhere.
Especially at larger companies there’s very little difference between $10, $100, $1000, $10,000 from the perspective of the effort put in to pay for it.
You’re putting the same requests and forms, doing the same due diligence, getting the same approvals, etc. All contracts need to go through the same contract review, etc.
Few places I’ve worked have sensible rules to bypass that.
You still need to make sure you’re value for money, but aren’t as constrained as absolute price as much.
At one company an excel add-in with a >$1M support cost was found to have a single user.
Turned out to be the CEO so we have to keep paying for it.
Back around 2009ish the company I was at sold a single enterprise license for our software for $10M. Average deal size then was probably in the $500k-$2M range.
"The passenger accommodation aboard Hindenburg was contained within the hull of the airship (unlike Graf Zeppelin, whose passenger space was located in the ship’s gondola)."
https://www.airships.net/hindenburg/interiors/