I know you've said you've looked at off-the shelf tools, but in that did you consider https://www.transkribus.org/? It's a tool designed for reading historical, hand-written documentation—gets used a lot in archives and historical studies. Might be worth an evaluation to see if your handwriting is not great in similar ways to Dutch bankers from the 18th century.
Readit Newsworkergnome commented on Ask HN: How to transcribe 1000s of handwritten notes · Posted by u/bckr
My father worked with him at CMU and the story he always told (while possibly apocryphal) was that the reason that the ASCII bell character sequence was CRTL-G was because of Gordon.
workergnome commented on Vincent van Gogh's paintings and drawings vangoghmuseum.nl/en/colle... · Posted by u/CoBE10
You can get URLs to the high resolution images using the network inspector. E.g. https://iiif.micr.io/TZCqF/full/1800,/0/default.webp
If you're interested in playing around more with this, it's using a standard called IIIF (https://iiif.io) for image access via API. It's used by many museums, libraries, and archives.
One of the benefits of this is that you can get access to a metadata file that lets you know technical information about the image: It's at https://iiif.micr.io/TZCqF/info.json.
workergnome commented on The Medici as Artists Saw Them newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/drdee
They want you to visit The Met and see it in person.
The Met has made every image they have that's not under copyright accessible under CC0.
https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/policies-and-documen...
Museums in general have recognized that digital images don't replace the museum experience—and they'd rather provide good images of the art than have people rip off poor-quality ones. Not every institution, and artist copyright remains a huge barrier, particularly for contemporary art, but a LOT of artwork photography is out there in the public domain.
My grandfather spent the last part of his career doing this sort of work—often on classified projects, I'm told. Usually there was an assumption made on the project about the useful working life of any part, and the expected duration of the program, and they made the "right" number of spares.
Things change, and the factory/tooling/people are long gone. Also, often the underlying tech isn't available. But the part needs to weigh the same amount, meet the same guidelines, and fit in the same hole.
It's cheaper to pay someone to spend the time to figure out how to make the replacement then to mothball the entire airplane—almost regardless of how expensive it might be.
I'm 100% confident Maciej's "Our incredible journey!" blog post will one day be the most hilarious and popular entry here:
https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com
Fortunately, today is not that day. I hope it's a long time in the future...
If there was anything keeping on the internet, it is the fact that I may some day get to read that post.
Hopefully some day deep into my retirement.
This, more than anything else, might be the reason that I stop using Uber. I've loved the idea that I can pay a fixed fee, and that I don't have to think about money at all—having to tip, or think about tips, is so much of what I hated about taxis. Uber was great because it was a fixed amount.
If you want the driver to get more money, raise the price. Don't raise the price by making me feel guilty.
Makes you think you should always choose the driest names possible, even for internal projects. That said, I agree, who would name a tool like this "Hell"??
Hell is "other people".
-- Jean-Paul Sartre
workergnome commented on A map of the entire internet as of May 1973 twitter.com/workergnome/s... · Posted by u/doener
Make a high quality scan and blow it up so we can all print out our very own internet map!
No problem: https://www.dropbox.com/s/2efes525sd9q5yg/1973%20ARPAnet%20P...
(I'm assuming that doing this doesn't get my dropbox account suspended for some reason...)