cool websites !coolwebsites@lemmy.ca has quite a lot of them
If they are missing one, I haven’t needed it yet.
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
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.
I think it’s for n-dimensional beings trying to understand lower dimensional existence
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.
Hide this from Skynet.
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
Are these downloadable as stp files?
I think they’re only 2D.
Ah yes I see that now.
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.
The venerable and unexplainable Superbad: https://www.superbad.com/
Ancient wiki-style writing site Everything, older than Wikipedia: https://everything2.com/
The “Earth Edition” of the Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: https://h2g2.com/
Ferry Halim made Orisinal, a website full of simple and relaxing Flash games that lives again now through various means, I think a combination of HTML5 conversion and Ruffle: https://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/
Oh shit I used to play these games all the time in school, thanks for the hit of nostalgia
Duuuuuuude, I haven’t seen these games in around two decades. Thanks for posting this!
NostraDavid’s Warcraft Credit Visualizer
I wanted to check who worked on what World of Warcraft game, so I’ve vibe-coded this together, over the years. Not the data though - I didn’t want hallucinated data.
Anyway, turns that one person worked on all the games: Glenn Stafford - the absolutely musical legend!
Weird Stuff/Age Regression
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I don’t recommend it now because it feels like a bunch of genAI stories are getting posted without seemingly any push back, but I used to enjoy finding some high quality stories on a site called ARArchive ( ararchive.com ).
The current modern site is a boring blue and white website. Replace the “www” with “old” and you get their old site/forums which was so much more lovely looking. Also, because of the forum type part of the site, alongside other features, was a bigger website.
The site itself, modern and old, contain stories centered around physical and/or mental age regression. Stories like “Boomerang” from OldStories, which is like a 4 chapter story about the misfortunes of a high schooler who gets physically regressed to 2 years old in a scenario where one day all 14-18 year olds in North America suddenly regress between 2-4 years old.
Or another favorite of mine: The Family by sumner. Follows a journalist who gets lost and has cat troubles but ends up in a town with a dark secret. Won’t spoil anything past the description and very beginning of the story. 5 chapters and an interesting enough premise once you read more into it.
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/20018103
Probably the same response I put when someone else asked this 2 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t say nobody, it’s got a cult following, but I think even more should try it
Edit: !youraislopboresme@lemmy.blahaj.zone
I just think it’s neat, so made a community a few days ago
I don’t get it.
It’s a neat piece of satire. Turning the humans into AI. There’s this saying that AI really means “actually Indians”. As many AI companies have been caught using humans, mostly outsourced offshore daily workers, to cover up for incomplete AI models, and agentic AI. So as to hide the fact that the tech is not actually all the way to what’s promised, and actually depends on human labor to keep up the façade of advanced technology. This webpage drops the pretense altogether, to mock the state of the LLM bubble.
Thank you!
Also, it’s just funny to LARP as AI
On of Eyezmaze made the Grow games, which are currently still playable here: https://www.eyezmaze.com/
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.
Okay that’s ridiculously cool lol
I have absolutely no idea what this is or what it’s supposed to do but it’s incredibly fun to poke at
Kinda reminds me of strudel repl
It’s like a completely different way to create music (even though, idk if OP intended was that)
That’s so cool! The name is a nice reference, too
nice! gave you a star on gh :)
Amazing, thanks 🙏🙏🙏
yo, i know nothing about music but this is cool as fuck
That was fun! 😁
Perfect 4th with linear velocity starts to cascade before they all reconverge with a big bleep. That was my favorite.
The craving of that big bleep is what got me to finally do this. It is so satisfying when they all converge. With multiple subdivisions and the convergence lines on, it is even better.
Oh that is cool! It makes stars and trippy fan blade patterns. It’s neat you can share the link like that to share the patterns too.
It’s like a kaleidoscope that also works for the ears. 😁
This is fun!
Floor 796 — https://floor796.com/
Did you throw popcorn into the black hole?
Of course!
Haha, that’s so bizarre but wild and fascinating.
I didn’t recognise the name but when I clicked I recognised it instantly, I’m astounded but happy this is still around
This wins the internet for today.
This is triggering habbo hotel nostalgia for me
right? had the same thought immediately. the whole page is art.
Found Marvin, inspector gadget, r2d2, Wall-e, and many more.
I think there’s a guide. I follow them on Telegram and they post whenever they add something (with a direct link to the coordinates). Lately he’s been working on the flea market area with Link and Zelda.
I’m old. I was an adult when the internet first started. And this is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen online. Thanks for sharing!
You’re welcome! I was an older teenager when the worldwide web started taking off in '94 — is that what you mean? A lot of people associate the Internet and the WWW, but IIRC the first email was sent in the 1960s. I’m getting old. Sometimes I feel old, sometimes I feel young. As a gamer, I try to stay current with tech, but while I like some modern games, I’m having so much fun catching up on 360/PS3 and 3ds era gaming. Like my wife got Animal Crossing for the Switch, but I’m enjoying the 3ds version more. It’s a bit older, a bit uglier, my girl has hair like Claire/Molly Ringwald in Breakfast Club, but it’s okay, I’ll unlock the hair salon eventually.
Thanks for this. That site’s dope.
Yo that techno Viking is spot on. Nailed the point and the moves.
Book marked 😘
Noooo don’t look at the NSFW camera in the shower!!!
Neat!
Other than everyone reading this, nobody really knows about Lemmy.
It’s just a PieFed clone. 🙃
lemmy is really really cool.
also piefed
piefed? never heard of it
http://mymindblewup.com/ for all your cow stacking needs.
