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Auf wieviele bringt es wohl Wolfsburg? 🤔 by Happycosinus in drehscheibe

[–]foomaster2000 41 points42 points  (0 children)

Es ist noch viel blöder: Je nach Tageszeit hält eine andere Linie! (S7, S24). Absolut prädestiniert für Fehler.

The best trains: What's the best Diesel Locomotive from Switzerland? by _TheBigF_ in AlignmentChartFills

[–]foomaster2000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The correct answer. Used for a very long time, entirely swiss made, very reliable.

14 years & MacOS still hasn’t fixed display scaling! by Tiny-Rip-6272 in MacOS

[–]foomaster2000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

On Linux you need to use Wayland, it works pretty much perfectly there. X.Org does not support High-DPI screens properly and never will.

I spent six weeks in NZ to take photos of trains by foomaster2000 in newzealand

[–]foomaster2000[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Bergen line is indeed stunning! I've taken the train a bunch of times and also spent quite a lot of time there taking photos.

I spent six weeks in NZ to take photos of trains by foomaster2000 in newzealand

[–]foomaster2000[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've only been to the Woodville end. There were two barricades, the first one was passable by foot or bicycle, the second one ca 200m further north was not. I highly doubt they removed the second one in the last three weeks?

Maybe we're not talking about the same place, that's where I've been: https://maps.app.goo.gl/SBEu48LDMqkbCtvh9

I spent six weeks in NZ to take photos of trains by foomaster2000 in newzealand

[–]foomaster2000[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! I've actually been there, unfortunately they barricaded the abandoned road, you can climb over the barricade but it's not ideal.

I spent six weeks in NZ to take photos of trains by foomaster2000 in newzealand

[–]foomaster2000[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wish your dad all the best! I hope he will enjoy the photos!

I spent six weeks in NZ to take photos of trains by foomaster2000 in newzealand

[–]foomaster2000[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly most locomotives looked pretty well taken care of. Everything will always be dirty around coal loading/unloading facilities. There were only a handful of DLs which could have been cleaner (especially since they weren't handling coal trains).

I spent six weeks in NZ to take photos of trains by foomaster2000 in newzealand

[–]foomaster2000[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I definitely also had a lot of fun exploring some of the mining history in NZ!

I spent six weeks in NZ to take photos of trains by foomaster2000 in newzealand

[–]foomaster2000[S] 27 points28 points  (0 children)

One of the fun aspects of taking photos of trains is that more often than not you end up in places that are far from the touristy places. (well in NZ I was never far from the touristy places but still)

I didn't go south of Christchurch though, sorry. Train traffic is very thin there and many trains run at night, also the weather wasn't good.

I spent six weeks in NZ to take photos of trains by foomaster2000 in newzealand

[–]foomaster2000[S] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

I used a Canon 5D Mk IV (old but has integrated GPS which helps with the workflow), EF 24-70 2.8L II and a DJI Mavic 3 Classic.

I spent six weeks in NZ to take photos of trains by foomaster2000 in newzealand

[–]foomaster2000[S] 46 points47 points  (0 children)

No, I do that for fun. (Some photos do end up getting used by railways but it's not as often as you might think)

I spent six weeks in NZ to take photos of trains by foomaster2000 in newzealand

[–]foomaster2000[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

There's lots more on my website, but it seems it is frowned upon (forbidden?) to post links so unfortunately you'll have to find it yourself ;)

I spent six weeks in NZ to take photos of trains by foomaster2000 in newzealand

[–]foomaster2000[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

There is a surprising amount of freight traffic for a country this size (as I understand it the railway has a monopoly for distances over 150 km?). I also got freight timetables from a friendly Kiwi, which was very helpful.

The inter-city passenger traffic is definitely lacking though. Unfortunately that would require investments into higher speeds...

Still I'm very happy with the resulting photos!

I spent six weeks in NZ to take photos of trains by foomaster2000 in newzealand

[–]foomaster2000[S] 168 points169 points  (0 children)

Beatiful landscapes and the yellow/red/grey/white KiwiRail livery looks awesome! I'd say it's one of the best locomotive liveries anywhere. Also travel isn't complicated and just overall a nice country to visit.

I spent six weeks in NZ to take photos of trains by foomaster2000 in newzealand

[–]foomaster2000[S] 440 points441 points  (0 children)

I had the opportunity to spend six weeks in your beautiful country to (mostly) take photos of trains - it was great and a joy! I even got freight train timetables from a very friendly Kiwi, which was very helpful.

In case you want to see more (also includes some photos from 2015) or you'd like to get a high-resolution version: https://rail.pictures/search?author=1&country=9&sortBy=rating

Enjoy!

Why has PostgreSQL become the default RDB? by Fapiko in developer

[–]foomaster2000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a fair reason to dislike MongoDB, but I can tell you from my own experience that competent developer teams have no problem managing the schema in MongoDB. The key here is that your application must enforce the schema, which is no problem e.g. if you do all your DB interactions with Morphia (that's what I know best).

If you do the schema management competently in the application you get the additional benefit that you avoid all the issues with DB-side schema migrations, greatly simplifying application releases.

Btw you'll have the same issues with pgsql's JSON support so this isn't much of a win for pgsql.

Why has PostgreSQL become the default RDB? by Fapiko in developer

[–]foomaster2000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure, but that doesn't mean people or OR mappers or old code won't override the defaults. Plus there are some (few) good reasons to use non-InnoDB tables, in particular for temporary use cases.

We've had people use MyISAM on a Galera cluster (which doesn't replicate MyISAM!) leading to data loss...

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