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LandStander | 4 months ago | on: Marble Fountain

This is a great example of a good use case for 3D printers. The smooth marble run action combined with the interwoven organic forms would be a huge PITA to fabricate with any other method I can think of, even if your just making one.

LandStander | 11 months ago | on: I analyzed chord progressions in 680k songs

The song is "Never Gonna Let You Go" by Sergio Mendes

LandStander | 1 year ago | on: Oldest known wild bird lays egg at 74

OneZoom.org has a nice common ancestor search feature. Here are the results for albatross and crocodile:

https://www.onezoom.org/life/@Archelosauria=4947372?otthome=...

LandStander | 1 year ago | on: The Most Desperately Needed Airplane Is Back in Production

I remember as a young kid, it was the closest I could find to the Sea Duck from Tail Spin.

LandStander | 2 years ago | on: The world nearly adopted a calendar with 13 months of 28 days

I know not to hope for it to ever catch on, but my dream date-time format would be:

year/day/hectosecond.second(.millisecond and so on to the desired precision)

The current date-time, to the second, would be 2023/308/342.65

The days, like the years and second-based units, are 0-indexed.

There are 100 seconds in a hectosecond, and normally 864 hectoseconds in a day.

And to go with it, I'd advocate either a "3-on, 2-off", or "6-on, 4-off" work cycle, depending on the nature of the work, or even just personal preference. This way, today(308) would obviously be on a "weekend" either way.

LandStander | 2 years ago | on: One Revolution per Minute [video]

Water mined from the moon might be much cheaper by the time something like this is built. That being said, a giant sterile swimming pool seems like an odd feature for an interplanetary spacecraft. I'd rather see a well-balanced aquatic habitat, if anything.

LandStander | 2 years ago | on: Clusivity

I'm wondering if this post was inspired by the recent comic from SMBC:

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/clusivity

LandStander | 2 years ago | on: The impact of the ‘long peace’ on modern military capabilities

Paintball.

LandStander | 3 years ago | on: Hackaday 2022 cyberdeck contest winners

That PERSEUS-9 is a thing of beauty.

LandStander | 3 years ago | on: Solar-powered headphones

I like this idea. To take it even further, I propose this wire terminate to a sturdy cylindrical plug which can rotate 360 degrees. Furthermore, if the signal were to be analog, it would allow universal compatibility with all other analog sound devices. I think this could be revolutionary.

LandStander | 3 years ago | on: Robo-Ostrich Sprints to 100-Meter World Record

Many zoos and aquariums conduct scientific research, and may have breeding programs for endangered species.

LandStander | 3 years ago | on: The Framework Laptop Chromebook Edition

Concerns of spyware are precisely why those switches exist.

LandStander | 3 years ago | on: Faster, Meaner, Deadlier: The Evolution of “BattleBots”

Then you just get modern warfare miniaturized. I guess that could be fun to watch if well presented, but I've been thinking it would be cool to just have a bigger, more rugged battlebox that demands more versatile movement, rather then having everyone just trying to hug the metal floor as closely as possible.

LandStander | 3 years ago | on: The U.S. diet is deadly. Here are 7 ideas to get Americans eating healthier

So you don't like seafood?

LandStander | 3 years ago | on: After 50 years, Michael Heizer is finally ready to unveil City, his life's work

Isn't it always

LandStander | 3 years ago | on: A Whirlwind Tutorial on Creating Teensy ELF Executables for Linux

I thought this was going to be about the Teensy boards. https://www.pjrc.com/teensy/

LandStander | 3 years ago | on: Dolt is Git for Data

I blame font designers.

LandStander | 3 years ago | on: What is the web revival?

now where do you find those 'under construction' giffies?

here: http://textfiles.com/underconstruction/

LandStander | 3 years ago | on: After roasting Apple about headphone jacks, Google dumps it from Pixel 6A

I've been using a dongle in my car(an older model with no bluetooth), and it is quickly wearing out my phones usb port. Keeps falling out. The headphone jack was a lot more resilient.

LandStander | 3 years ago | on: Your real biological clock is you’re going to die (2018)

I don't want true immortality, but it would be momentous if we could significantly extend people's active lifespan. Imagine if 100 was the new 50, and 200 was the new 100.