• theherk@lemmy.world
    55·
    19 days ago

    I’m not saying it’s the coolest, but I made a thing to scratch an itch that others may enjoy. I modeled it after something I found a few decades back that I never found again.

    https://rhuidean.studio/

    Forgot to mention it is available as a tui too. cargo install rhuidean-studio

    • rodneylives@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      17 days ago

      Project Gutenberg predates the internet. I still remember how their goal was to give away one trillion ebooks.

      Project Gutenberg is still around, so I won’t say this is an example of the internet getting worse. But I loathe how it’s come to focus on damnable social media like there’s nothing else of worth out there. Social media, among other things, filled the air with noise that starved many worthwhile projects of attention.

  • moakley@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    18 days ago

    dimensions.com

    It’s the weirdest shit I’ve ever seen. Before I get into it, I want to point out that I’ve been using this site for years, since before LLMs were a thing, so this is definitely not generated by AI.

    It’s just like, generic outline drawings of things. Objects, people, places, everything.

    So sometimes I like to draw, and I need a model to work from for the pose and the proportions, and this site has a ton of them. Child kicking a ball? Yes. Adult man sitting on a bench? Several options to choose from. Woman carrying a box? Three different poses.

    Pointing, pushing, protesting, thinking, vacuuming, raising one’s hand to summon a waiter in a restaurant, it’s all there.

    I’m sure there’s some kind of industrial use for it, like for diagrams or blueprints or something, but then we get to the descriptions. Like on the page for people carrying boxes, it says:

    People lift boxes either in their personal lives or at work. People lift boxes to move residences. Mailmen or delivery truck drivers lift boxes everyday as part of their job. Some jobs may require their applicants to be able to lift a certain weight of box. When lifting boxes, it is important to lift with your knees instead of your back to prevent back injury.

    Then there’s always three questions, which they provide answers to. For carrying, those questions are:

    What is a carry on bag?

    What is carrying capacity?

    How much can a horse carry?

    Why? Whom is that for?

    Under the pictures of elderly people it asks things like “What are the best exercises for maintaining mobility in seniors?” and “How can seniors adapt their homes for safety and accessibility?”

    Is this for dolphins? Did a dolphin learn to read English, and they want to understand human society?

    I’m struggling to find the weirdest examples, because honestly it’s the breadth as well as the depth. Someone clearly put a ton of work into this, and I love it, but I don’t understand it.

      • moakley@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        17 days ago

        But they’d have written it in alienese. That’s why I say dolphins - without a formal writing system of their own, they’d naturally default to a human one for the purpose of studying humans.

      • grrgyle@slrpnk.net
        3·
        17 days ago

        I think it’s for n-dimensional beings trying to understand lower dimensional existence

        • tuxiqae@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          3·
          17 days ago

          It’s not on the app I’m using, I assume the browser just generates a link for every URL-like string while the app doesn’t necessarily

    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      17 days ago

      This is for architects and designers. There used to be books that had these dimensions and stats that were ungodly expensive at the time.

      • moakley@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        15 days ago

        Why do architects and designers need a description of what carrying boxes is? Why do they need tips on senior mobility? It’s weird.

        • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          15 days ago

          Why do architects and designers need a description of what carrying boxes is?

          Say you work for a firm that mostly does office buildings. This firm hasn’t done a building with a mail room in decades, but now has a project with a mail room for whatever reason. There is no one at the office that would know this info, so you need to look it up. For safety and liability, you have to design for ergonomics. You use the 2d drawings for your details and elevations that explain it.

          Why do they need tips on senior mobility?

          Similar, the firm does hospitals, but was asked to do a senior living home. There are very specific requirements for elderly living. There are classes on this alone for architects and designers. If you are an older designer, you might need to know new info and studies out there. You use these for elevations so you can design heights and materials and finishes for the elderly. For example, if all of the colors are the same for the hallway, the elderly won’t be able to distinguish between the floor and the walls.

          It sounds like you’ve never known an architect or designer before. There is a lot of information going on in their heads, especially for healthcare or anywhere there needs to be repetitive work done. Architects and designers are liable for what goes into their drawings. They’re contracts.

          • moakley@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            15 days ago

            Fair enough. Those were bad examples. Explain this one, under “thinking”:

            How do you stop thinking about someone?

            To stop thinking about someone look for closure. Other methods may include finding someone else to think about, thinking of their negative traits, staying busy, and most importantly, respecting yourself. In the end, remember that it will all pass, and while there might not be a short term plan, patience and initiative will go a long way.

            I’ve never met an architect before, so maybe you can give me a plausible reason they’d need to know about closure.

            Here’s an entry from “looking”:

            What does “Here’s looking at you, kid” mean?

            The phrase “Here’s looking at you, kid” is fondly remembered from Rick’s famous line from the film Casablanca. The phrase means that he/she is happy the other person is there, and that the other person looks attractive.

            Or how about this one under “comic books & video games”?

            Are comic books better than movies?

            Comic books are typically better than movies due to a variety of reasons that include cost and time, the personal vision of the author and artists, as well as their experimental and bold nature. Comics also deeply care about their viewers as well as create an engaging and active process.

            I just can’t imagine how a designer would use this.

            • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
              1·
              15 days ago

              Those are the first examples you’ve given that don’t make sense. All of the other ones were straight out of our reference books. II have no idea about the others. Is it open sourced info where people didn’t get the memo on how to add to it?

    • FarraigePlaisteaċ (sé/é)@lemmy.world
      3·
      18 days ago

      Thanks for this. It seems to have something for everyone, and the idea of punch lists sounds like what’s sometimes missing to get from concerned / informed to actually effective.

    • Shindo66@lemmy.world
      2·
      17 days ago

      Ive loved radio garden for a few years now. Its so fun to just click a random city in the world and just listen to whatever they are doing. I remember randomly listening to a music station from some island above scotland for an entire day and came out of it with like 10 bands i had never heard of before that are now a part of my rotation.

    • early_riser@lemmy.world
      2·
      17 days ago

      Don’t know if it’s still around and can’t remember the domain, but there was a site called World Radio Network that rebroadcast shortwave radio from around the world. Also great for language learning. The Polish Radio Service and Vatican Radio even had programs in Esperanto. A Finnish station had a Latin program, and of course so did Vatican Radio.

  • Jarix@lemmy.world
    131·
    18 days ago

    www.webtender.com

    It’s still the same same as it was almost 30 years ago and is an example of both how websites used to look and also shows how much more functional things used to be when implemented well, inspite of modern aesthetic evolutions

    • ace_garp@lemmy.world
      5·
      18 days ago

      Lol. I haven’t seen this since '98.

      AFAIK there was a company producing a similar real product about 5-10 years ago.

      • Akasazh@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        18 days ago

        Yeah I love that it had a certain amount of credibility when released, mainly from the professional look of the page. But actually the implementability has increased over time with tech.

        Yet it hasn’t really lead to a cybersex revolution yet. My prediction at the time that something like this would definitely materialize in the next 25 years.