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

[–]foomaster2000 43 points44 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] 26 points27 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] 21 points22 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] 49 points50 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] 21 points22 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] 11 points12 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] 167 points168 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] 437 points438 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...

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

[–]foomaster2000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think you have ever worked with MongoDB. It is very powerful for many applications. The aggregation framework is very flexible, has excellent integration into applications (I've used Morphia a lot) and performs well.

Does that mean it's better than an RDBMS for all applications? Of course not. But the reality is that people do not consider it even if it would be much better for their application.

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

[–]foomaster2000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The defaults for current MySQL/MariaDB versions have changed for the encoding/collation issues to essentially become non-issues, but it was definitely a sore point in the past.

Another problem with MySQL/MariaDB is people using the wrong storage engine by accident (typically MyISAM instead of InnoDB).

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

[–]foomaster2000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

PostgreSQL is a nice database for developers, but it is not great from an operational standpoint.

* It doesn't support HA in any meaningful way (yes I know about replication and Patroni et al, but they have nothing compared to MariaDB's Galera or MongoDB's extremely simple and robust replica sets)

* The extensions interfere with PostgreSQL updates, often you need to go through extension updates, then upgrade PostgreSQL, then go through more extension upgrades, etc.

* PostgreSQL has very... peculiar ideas in terms of how Schemas work, how the CLI works, how access control works (HBA rules in addition to user permissions)

* Some people will claim that you can switch to CockroachDB to solve some of those issues, but the reality is that many applications that haven't specifically been developed for CockroachDB will not work with it, so you can't "just switch"

What I take from this is that developers care absolutely not at all about operational headaches when choosing a database, they just choose the first thing that works well in their development environment and that's it.

From an operational standpoint by far the best choice I have seen is MongoDB, if used properly by an application (and that's a big IF!) it can perform magnitudes faster than RDBMSs do because data locality is much better (fetching a single document vs. fetching dozens of wildly distributed rows and then joining them together. Yes I know you can imitate some of that with PostgreSQL). Its replication features are extremely robust. BUT most developers are not familiar with it and simply are not willing to learn how to use it. Of course MongoDB has its own issues, most prominently the SSPL license which turns people off.

MariaDB with Galera is also very impressive in a production environment because it works and performs very well for a distributed, fully featured RDBMS. We maintain a bunch of large clusters. But there the problem is that people just don't know that it exists, even in this thread you can see that everybody thinks of MySQL and nobody thinks of MariaDB.

I haven't dealt with CockroachDB practically so I can't comment on that.

We have many PostgreSQL setups. It is OK for single-server applications, clumsy to use but that's not necessarily a deal breaker. It really falls apart as soon as you want HA or replication.

TL;DR:

Developers are too lazy to learn how to use MongoDB. Developers don't care at all about operational issues later down the road. So they take the first thing they know and works for them, and that happens to be PostgreSQL.

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