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.
Alright. I figured it out. This is for aliens trying to understand us.
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.
What if they wrote it in english cuz ofcourse aliens have english to alienese translator.
I think it’s for n-dimensional beings trying to understand lower dimensional existence
Super cool! Clickable URL: https://www.dimensions.com/
Was my link not clickable? It looks clickable on my browser.
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
Hide this from Skynet.
This is for architects and designers. There used to be books that had these dimensions and stats that were ungodly expensive at the time.
Why do architects and designers need a description of what carrying boxes is? Why do they need tips on senior mobility? It’s weird.
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.
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.
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?
Are these downloadable as stp files?
I think they’re only 2D.
Ah yes I see that now.
https://p2r3.github.io/convert/
convert anything to anything, make excel file into pdf, 3d print the bee movie. no more rules
Finally, I can 3D print a PDF of an insurance form!
ikr !!! some youtuber guy made it and made a video too
Streaming radio from around the world: Radio Garden
Best language lessons short of full immersion: Language Transfer
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.
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.
I’ve been using it as my homepage. It allows you to search Google and other engines without AI summaries, it gives you your IP address and just enough weather info without being obtuse, it loads quickly, and has a timer, stopwatch, scratchpad and conversion table for imperial to metric ect.
Ayyy it is so awesome to see how much Australians are contributing to the cyber space, I have lost count of the amount of times I have seen Aussies being mentioned in just this past week
It takes you to a random web 1.0 site that has somehow survived all this time.
And it led me to this site, a public voice-mail:
This is amazing, it took me to a US battleship website and then enrons website
A good chuck of these sites are autism special interest sites.
Hey, would you like every single schematic of Chernobyl with a through explanation? Sites like that are floating around in there.
And then a website about proving the existence of sea monsters…
Does Lemmy count?
I mean not in this thread, but generally yeah
According to the people in my office nobody knows about archive.org and I think it’s pretty cool.
turnmeintoagirl.com is a greatwebsite for all those transfems that still dont know they are trans.
Oh fuck oh shit I clicked it as a joke but it’s legit how do I go back my knob and bollocks went inside and won’t come back out!
https://internet.nl/ that tests a bunch of security related things and gives your server a score. Great for checking a few more boxes.
This page on how mechanical watches work with really snappy interactive 3d bits that let you “feel” how the parts do their thing. And the dozens of other articles on other topics also on the site
https://posthog.com/ Its best on desktop or in desktop mode Its basically a recreation of a desktop with icons in the browser. Its super cool to just navigate around in.
If they are missing one, I haven’t needed it yet.
despite being promoted on reddit quite a few times, nobody knows about lemmy. early on when reddit was banning on the explicit subs, some of us fled to an international forum that looks reddit, its relatively unknown, but it was discusisng “illicit stuff” i think it was an obscure canadia/EU sites, so the US cant force it to close down, sadly most of the people dispersed from that community long time ago.
another one as of recently is because of reddit bans, people fled to a forum that discuss how to evade it, and how they were banned from reddit.
voat?
Every noise at once - https://everynoise.com/
It’s still usable, and the Spotify playlists are still there. If you like exploring music styles, this is for you. Warning, time will disappear.
