Several years of Deutsche Bahn business travel taught me something unexpected: eventually you stop fighting the system and start learning its moods, failure domains, and hidden virtues.

I wrote down the practical folklore that actually helps: apps, routing habits, delay survival, seat choices, fallback lines, and the strange civilisation of the Bordrestaurant at 250 km/h.

“A Field Manual for Three Years on Deutsche Bahn”: https://blog.hofstede.it/a-field-manual-for-three-years-on-deutsche-bahn/

#travel #db #trains #bahn

A project to monitor billionaire private jet travel to provide early warning of the Apocalypse is now online and next week will offer a subscription-based alert system you can sign up for.

The idea seems sound. The billionaires are easily spooked, will probably get advance notice of whatever, then will fly off double time to their hidey-holes and bunkers, and this will show up as a sudden spike in billionaire air travel, letting the rest of us know shit's incoming.

https://ews.kylemcdonald.net/

You know that quote about the greatest achievement of software being to negate all the performance improvement achievements of hardware from the past several decades?

I think I've decided that software has finally won. It is now negating hardware improvements that don't even exist yet.

We now seem to have reached the point where an entire data centre can be bent to the task of writing a small script to add two numbers together...