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mwgarcia··on Suez Canal says traffic in channel resumes after stranded ship refloated
Here's a somewhat good compilation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovWoznPIBhw
mwgarcia··on Suez Canal says traffic in channel resumes after stranded ship refloated
It's the only practical solution really.

Cranes - Likely on a barge, on a relatively narrow canal. That's quite precarious. And make that two for both sides (canal is impassable).

Heavy lift helicopters - Even the few multiple automated cranes capable of handling a ship this size take days to unload it. Also these helicopters are quite expensive to operate.

Floatation devices - See Costa Concordia salvage operations. Lots of consideration for structural stress. Lots of mounting points on the ship. Lots of actual engineering needed for the floatation devices themselves.

mwgarcia··on Suez Canal says traffic in channel resumes after stranded ship refloated
The ship will still likely be anchored for hull inspection, perhaps in Bitter Lake. That may take a couple of days at best, and an indefinite stranding if serious problems are discovered.

Also crew change is likely because of on-going investigations, and that will be tricky with the on-going mariner crunch. There's not a lot who are qualified to run a ULCV, especially one straight out of an accident.

mwgarcia··on Suez Canal says traffic in channel resumes after stranded ship refloated
You forgot dredging tons of material. And dredgers have some of the more complex naval engineering out there with all its moving parts.
mwgarcia··on Tell HN: Please update your DNS records when abandoning servers
Totally agree. I failed to add server_name to my nginx config. IIRC I wrongly assumed that it can only accept one domain/pattern and didn't want to bother so I can simplify testing using localhost.
mwgarcia··on Tell HN: Please update your DNS records when abandoning servers
The Whois record showed the title of my page which has my name lol. They contacted me in LinkedIn using that. Directed them to use the GoDaddy contact thing based on Whois. EDIT: I got it mixed up, they just browsed unstoppable.com which was not filtered out by my server.

And yeah I should have had server_name in my nginx config in the first place. This time I did some fun with multiple roots/domains on one server: one for unstoppable.com and the other for my actual website.