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We'll do literally anything to avoid using the metric system How the heck do I know the size of a penguin? What is it with newspapers and animal comparisons for death boulders from above? I've never even *seen* a giraffe up close to know how big half of one would be U.S. Forestry Service had these plans published for lookout towers over the years. Some are obsolete, sadly, due to better building practices, but I think there are still some good ideas in these The footprint is 24ft x 21ft with a build surface on top about 15ft square. Total height is about 10ft, and although that's on the shorter end, it's actually doable for an individual Would make a nice treehouse alternative Plans for a 20ft tower. This is about as high as I'm comfortable building if I'm doing this by myself, or maybe with one extra pair of hands I especially like the top deck layout of this in that it can actually support something like a tiny cabin Old and busted: New hotness: In all seriousness, I quite fancy this layout for a composting toilet and might probably do something similar in my own cabin I'm working on a separator design that I can 3D print for this purpose The basic premise of a composting toilet is actually quite simple. The separating variety has extra plumbing, but that's about it This is a more complex arrangement, but folks have used buckets for this as well. It all depends on your comfort level and available space We're going to see modern art inspired by (or directly generated by) AI flooding the exhibit and auction scene, if it hasn't happened already GAN art is already a thing so I don't see how it won't be exploited for profit https://towardsdatascience.com/generating-modern-arts-using-generative-adversarial-network-gan-on-spell-39f67f83c7b4  Once upon a time, Saturday morning cartoons were live on stage Actually, I wouldn't mind seeing Thundercats In better news, there was a cat named Patches that everyone thought was lost in a mudslide, but actually made it out fine and came back 3 years later Looks like someone's been feeding her all this time. Or she was somehow able to take care of herself because cat TIL There's a bot that toots clinical trials when they're "suspended, terminated or withdrawn". Might be a good research tool on its own to see certain trends "Stop chewing the Uranium, Timmy" But seriously, this might actually be something worth revisiting with plenty of adult supervision. I saw a cloud chamber demo when I was around 10, I think. It was the first time I actually thought seriously about science in general @cypnk I wanted stuff like that soooo badly as a kid but I was coming of age just as science kits were getting safer/defanged. My equivalent was this 150 in 1 kit from Radio Shack FYI If you want to find Twitch Streams without viewers, there's https://nobody.live It's mostly good to find obscure streamers, but also odd ones once in a while I came across an actual cactus on a desk somewhere  What the heck is going on in Maine? Via: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/jmotmf/squirrel_to_human_ratio_by_state_oc/ @cypnk This maps pretty closely to population density by state. Maine is the only state on the east coast with a density comparable to great plains states. Textpattern 4.0 was released in 2005 4.8.3 Was released last month. Gotta hand it to them for taking things slowly @cypnk oh wow I remember the 4.0 release, I recall dropping it some time later because it felt like an abandoned project! I fear a pending collapse in computer literacy. Most kids now only have a phone and/or tablet and those are almost exclusively walled gardens. Apps and filters are amazing black boxes which reveal no hints of their internals A few of my friends who teach are already lamenting the daily fight to get kids aquatinted with just the basics. Never mind Zoom, just *using* a computer Current state of remote learning has really exposed the problem  @cypnk I worry about this too. I think computers of today are maybe even less "learnable", as far as what you can easily understand and learn after first powering them on, than they were 20+ years ago. One possible answer I came up with for this is a game-like interactive primer that assumes a basic reading level and teaches basic computing skills, then lets users push deeper into programming, digital media, and simulation concepts. It's been on my backburner for years but lately it tugs at me. 12
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