fantastic stuff. I'm fiddling with screenshots from your [4] link video to try to pull 3D model from multi-image 3d model build tools. I too would very much like a print of their playable reconstruction on my desk. Please update if you get to a usable STL.
Growing up in Saudi Arabia, we started our work week on Saturday, with Wednesday being the last day of the work (school for me) week. It took me a long time to transition over to think about Saturday/Sunday as the days off. I still get random pangs of excitement on Wednesday thinking it’s the end of the week if my brain hasn’t warmed up.
I believe this is still the case in the gulf states and I would assume other Islamic countries.
You made me think of Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia: All are Islamic majority in Southeast Asia. I Googled and look what I found: "Identify the first day of the week based on the locale"
> if I sell you a BMW 328i as a 340i but I also swap the engine and sell it with the additional power that comes with that change, have I misled you?
Amongst car people, I think you have. Motor swaps come with all sorts of other risks. Hell, it’s good manners to disclose if you swapped a motor for equivalent power, for helping the next owner diagnose any problems or be aware of mileage discrepancies.
It’d be good manners at the very least to disclose something was purchased as one model, but made to be equal to a different model by whatever means. It could have future implications to the buyer, just like the ones in this story.
that has not been my experience. I get feedback from LI on views and resume downloads, and I get emails for next steps AND rejections. Granted, I'm sure I have some no-replies from there, but it's so easy to apply to more I hardly notice or worry.
If I really like a place, I'll apply at their native portal as well as their Easy Apply.
Not a book, but this paper “big ball of mud” has resonated with me in describing troubles I’ve faced before, and has me coming back to it as I run into new architectural problems where I’m not confident in my/our approach.
light fitness tracking in a forever battery w simple subtle design would win me. Something like the MQ24-7B2 mechanical with similar features would be the bees knees.
I was born in Dhahran in 1986, left in 2002. My dad worked in Aramco’s drilling department and was not insignificantly involved in introducing PCs to the organization. From his telling it was mostly for selfish motivations to improve inventory, logistics, and accounting workflows to be more manageable for his own teams. He was getting the Aramco library signed up for computer magazines before I was born. He has some interesting stories about the early days of computing, from inside the bowels of this company.
I learned to build PCs from parts I purchased from Philippino merchants at al Shula mall in the mentioned Khobar. I attended LAN parties on the initially mentioned street in the article in Dhahran proper, Prairie View. I taught myself to program on a TI-83 calculator at Dhahran school.
I transitioned into the tech industry pretty quickly out of college after studying poli-sci related curriculum w focus on Middle East, and have worked in O&G related tech for a good part of my career. I’m a product manager for an O&G portfolio product now. I have friends working in Aramco still, many Aramco friends in the town I live, and family in the region in similar arrangements. Happy to answer questions regarding any of the above.
There are quite a few resources available for those curious about the country, company, and history of expatriate workers in the region. “The Prize” mentioned in another few comments is an excellent primer, a lesser know resource I’ve come to like are “Out In The Blue”, by Tom Barger who retired from Aramco as CEO in 69. The book is a collection of letters from himself and other expatriate workers to their families about the establishment of exploration activity in the country. It’s got a bit of “the party line”, rosy-towards-the-Saudis feel but is some excellent and generally unknown primary documentation of the company’s early years. Another book less charitable to Saudi, American, or even my own role in the country’s history is “Cities of Salt” by Abdelrahman Munif. That was a multi part fiction giving a semi-historical recounting of the establishment of a Dhahran-like town in a Saudi-like country from the perspectives of different local people living there already. It is phenomenally authentic, and has a spirit of understanding of the sentiment there that is not common. The work has been banned in kingdom.
(This is a bit off-topic from the subject of the article about particular methodology of rendering data as opposed to usage of these kind of wind maps)
I worked on X’s project loon in operations for a spell. We were interacting with balloons in flight regularly. The referenced nullschool wind map was unendingly useful.
Something I always wanted for using nullschool or other similar publicly available “tools” was more granularity between wind layers, or derived estimations of data between wind layers.
When putting any flight systems in the atmosphere, having visualizations (even estimates) of wind direction and speed estimations at more altitude levels is more valuable than visualizing more particles more efficiently, IMO.
I wish similar thought and processing power was put towards smoothing out guesses at wind speeds at different altitudes.
Tl;dr: I wish this demo map had an altitude slider, even if it was smoothed out guestimates between available data layers.
I briefly looked into this, and from what I remember these were all always based on the "satellite" based wind models which were interpolations of predictions at a very low resolution based on infrared. Winds aloft, as I'm sure you know, are often measured by radiosondes, but the subtle thing being that these samplings only make it into aeronautical forecasts, and at least in the US, stay US only, and don't bubble up to global summaries. These global data sets are not granular at all, and wouldn't provide the detail at different elevations. I wish such a data set was available... perhaps with the global satellite based ADS-B someone could do some kind of sampling based on live flight data, but I'm sure it would be a private (and costly) dataset.
I really don't know if it's open to the public or not but windguru definitely has the dataset that you described. You might want to contact them to figure it out :)
I'm sure, you could buy it from [energy&meteo systems](https://www.energymeteo.com), if you really needed it. If you go to their homepage and click on the fourth button "Meteo Data", there's even a similar visualisation.
They definitely have the technology to calculate the wind at any height using different weather models (like the German ICON, the European IFS, or the American/NOAA GFS).
Thanks for the insights. While on this topic, some what, is there a satellite imagery service available that can give images of a location at a requested/variable time of the year? I wanted to see what a particular location looked liked during winter but could only find clearer photos taken during spring/fall months. I’d love if bing/google earth had a timeline/seasonal type slider.
Thanks for the insights. While on this topic, some what, is there a satellite imagery service available that can give images of a location at a requested/variable time of the year? I wanted to see what a particular location looked liked during winter but could only find clearer photos taken during spring/fall months.
