During a trip to Venice I had the good fortune of touring http://www.giuman.it/ and it was highly educational. Bringing the furnaces up to temperature takes time and turning them off each day isn't a good option. Gas comes primarily from Russia and price spikes have really hurt the business.

One should note the officers in the missile silo at the opening of the film:

Michael Madsen of Reservoir Dogs and Kill Bill, and John Spencer of L.A. Law and of course, The West Wing.

Second this. My father passed suddenly and the recordings we made a year before while looking at newly digitized family movies are a treasure. I get to hear his voice. Mom passed 30 years ago and I have some speeches she gave recorded, but it isn't the same.

Here's a conversation outline from StoryCorps https://storycorps.org/participate/tips-for-a-great-conversa...

I got to hear my dads voice courtesy of Youtube for the first time in decades and it was the weirdest experience, especially because that recording was so unlike the person that I knew in real life.

Reminding me of Poe's album, "Haunted" where she discovered a trove of cassettes from her father — many addressed to her (and she used small clips in the mixing of the album).

I think this the text of the as yet unnumbered HR. https://docs.house.gov/meetings/FA/FA00/20250917/118618/BILL...

It is a 7 year old article without specifying alternatives to an "already solved problem."

So HN, what are the best alternatives available today and why?

Support across languages etc is much less mature but I find thrift serialization format to be much nicer than protobuf. The codegen somehow manages to produce types that look like types I would actually write compared to the monstrosities that protoc generates.

Something like MessagePack or CBOR, and if you want versioning, just have a version field at the start. You don't require a schema to pack/unpack, which I personally think is a good thing.

> You don't require a schema to pack/unpack

Then it hardly solves the same problem Protobuf solves.

Arrow is also becoming a good contender, with the extra benefit it is better optimized for data batches.

CBOR is probably the best and most standards compliant thing out there that I’m aware of.

It’s the new default in a lot of IOT specs, it’s the backbone for deep space communication networks etc..

Maintains interoperability with JSON. Is very much battle tested in very challenging environments.

There are none, protobufs are great.

Depends. ASN.1 is a beast and another industry standard, but unfortunately the best tooling is closed source.

There was ZERO PB tooling in 2000. Just write it for ASN.1 instead.

Mentioned above: https://github.com/stepchowfun/typical

They want leverage

Yep. I converted a business from to Postgres in 2004 and never looked back. Stable, reliable, no surprises. Postgres is the answer until proven otherwise.

There was a similar journey for our family after our parents passed and indeed, the photos with people doing ordinary things are the ones we share and enjoy. The Grand Canyon has a way of looking the same now as it did in 1955 and so those photos were discarded. Five boxes of photo albums were examined and the photos to keep were cut out and sent to be digitized organized by year and topic. I am glad someone wrote about their experience and the tips that come from having spent examining a life well photographed.

Here is a screenshot of Pacific Palisades property taxes https://imgur.com/a/1G6pLap

More exploration can be done here https://www.officialdata.org/ca-property-tax/#34.04626347956...

Pretty cheap considering average house costs $6-7 million.

I'd recommend Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. It covers the trials and tribulations as well as the brilliance and ruthless tactics taken to build Standard Oil.

Yeah it's a great book. It definitely gets into the weeds about his family and personal life (as a comprehensive biography should). Personally, I enjoyed that stuff, but if you just want to learn about how he did hard stuff as the OP described, it may be a bit thick at 600+ pages. That said, we summarized it in discussion form on our podcast if anyone is interested: http://businessbooksandco.com/episode/7b5d6ab9/titan-the-lif...