If you wanna see cutouts of a bunch of this equipment, a pig in a transparent pipe, and just happen to be in Oman, the petroleum development museum there is super.
Id imagine there's something similar in Houston, this stuff is legit fascinating.
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cdibona commented on Lessons learned from bringing promotional sweets to a conference shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/01/... · Posted by u/ColinWright
Back around ...2007 or so I had papabupple make a 'google (heart emoji) open source" hard candy, they were absolutely terrific. People loved those things. Papabubble had a shop in SF in those days. Expensing 600 lbs of candy was a first for google accounting I think.
I guess Julian Assange did with Wikileaks was the correct technology and process - and why the establishment has scared everyone away from replicating what he did by his most poor treatment.
So, do what Assange did.
Assange worked with Rusbridger, Guardian's editor in chief at the time, I think. So .... the guardian should go to the guardian and get their help! :-)
Blackberry was at its most valuable 2 years after the iPhone came out and a year before Android was released.
But the iPhone came out in 2007 and the for g1, 2008..... so, uh.....
cdibona commented on Reflecting on 18 Years at Google ln.hixie.ch/?start=170062... · Posted by u/whiplashoo
I used to "share" an office with Hixie at Google. Hixie used to store his board game collection in the office we nominally "shared", but he himself very rarely visited. I liked that just fine (let's just say I'm not a fan of "open" shared office spaces). My fondest Google office memories were sharing an office with Hixie, and "Mr Big Printer" which the Google Open Source Team used to print posters. We made an office CD label for "Mr Big Printer".
It was a very big printer, Jeremy.
cdibona commented on Steve Wozniak suffers minor stroke bbc.co.uk/news/technology... · Posted by u/sambeau
Does anyone know how dangerous a stroke is at his age? Side note, but why do older people have strokes so more often? Young people have blood clots too.
Aside from the risk of age, he had documented memory issues after his airplane crash in 1981, i don't know if that makes him more or less vulnerable during a stroke, but I'd be worried for sure.
cdibona commented on What I learned getting acquired by Google shreyans.org/google... · Posted by u/shreyans
The Gopher is solely because of Rob Pike and his wife I assume.
Yup, we wanted Renee to make the mascot for Go.I personally really loved Glenda (the plan 9 bunny) and was enthusiastic. It turned out pretty cute! We even ended up ordering a few containers full from squishables in that first year of go being released outside google.
cdibona commented on Dagor Engine and Tools source code from Gaijin Games KFT github.com/GaijinEntertai... · Posted by u/SXX
Psu open sourced guidance software in the mid 2000s and it found its way into other drone corebases and into a variety of missiles, including the quassam 4.
Since it was open source and developed in public ,the itar folks determined it was okay to release.
It might have been OSU , not sure, it's been a long time.
cdibona commented on Dagor Engine and Tools source code from Gaijin Games KFT github.com/GaijinEntertai... · Posted by u/SXX
unrelated but it would be cool if someone opensources, say, rocket flight control software and get that part of ITAR deemed unconstitutional
Psu open sourced guidance software in the mid 2000s and it found its way into other drone corebases and into a variety of missiles, including the quassam 4.
Since it was open source and developed in public ,the itar folks determined it was okay to release.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigging
> Some early cleaning "pigs" were made from straw bales wrapped in barbed wire[4] while others used leather.[5] Both made a squealing noise while traveling through the pipe, sounding to some like a pig squealing,[6] which gave pigs their name.[7][8]