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Re: User: Junnn11

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Post by KMnO4 »

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #58
edflsafoiewq wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can configure your browser either to ignore loading="lazy" completely or to increase the distance below the viewport where images load. Search for "lazy" in about:config if you use Firefox for example.

Sadly I don't think there's any such option in Chromium or mobile Safari, the two browsers I use.

You actually can do that on Safari:

iOS Settings > Safari > Advanced > Lazy image loading

I’m fairly certain you can do it on Chromium as well, but I don’t remember how.

Re: User: Junnn11

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Post by aeyes »

doesnt_know wrote: post #17

Wonderful illustrations! Whenever I see someone that is interested in a very specific niche and obviously expends a lot of effort towards it, I'm always in awe. How did they become interested in the topic? Why choose this specific thing? How do they keep their motivation to continue with it? I've personally never really felt like I've cared enough about anything this much. Because of this, I've always felt like I'm m…

I don't want to sound negative or discredit this contributor but having Asperger syndrome "helps". I got lost deep diving into several topics to the point where I spent almost all of my free time for a couple of years trying to understand each of them as much as possible.

That can lead to very positive output. The flip side is that my mind starts going in circles repeating the same thoughts over and over again.

Re: User: Junnn11

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Post by stevenhuang »

danjoredd wrote: post #27
doesnt_know wrote: post #17

Wonderful illustrations! Whenever I see someone that is interested in a very specific niche and obviously expends a lot of effort towards it, I'm always in awe. How did they become interested in the topic? Why choose this specific thing? How do they keep their motivation to continue with it? I've personally never really felt like I've cared enough about anything this much. Because of this, I've always felt like I'm m…

People obsessed with niche subjects and go all out on that are the backbone of society. My mind goes to the guy that packaged 1/3 of all Arch packages in the official repo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqMf6XFacR8&pp=ygUKZGlzdHJvd...

Linked in the comments is a video interviewing the man, Felix Yan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUDX6amkHOg

It's in mandarin but CC translate works.

Re: User: Junnn11

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Post by bawolff »

parhamn wrote: post #12

The image tags on that page need `loading="lazy"`. This made me curious what contributing to the wikipedia application (not articles) is like. Anyone have any insight/info on this?

I'm a mediawiki developer. Its open source. You can certainly contribute things. For something like that the difficult part is convincing everyone that loading=lazy is the right thing to do for body images. There are pros and cons, and a patch changing something without a clear right answer isn't going to get merged without buy-in (i should note im a backend dev, so this particular example is not something i know a lot about)

Anyways, lots of mediawiki devs hang out on #mediawiki on irc.libera.org irc channel. If you want to get involved come say hi.

Re: User: Junnn11

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Post by cudder »

waboremo wrote: post #52
diehunde wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably through academia? If you get a PhD you can spend years working on a very specific topic.

Possibly but not necessary, the more important element of a PhD is its effect on your environment. A PhD is legitimizing your niche interest vs how we treat those with niche interests who don't have a PhD ("obsessed"/wasting time). It's a very powerful effect, and minimizes a lot of the external stress of a niche interest that causes many to lose hope and move on.

That's an excellent point I hadn't thought of before. Thanks for bringing it up.

Re: User: Junnn11

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Post by stentotre »

rspoerri wrote: post #19

These pictures strongly remind me of "Ernst Haeckel: Kunstformen der Natur (Artforms of Nature) 1899-1904" https://www.zum.de/stueber/haeckel/kunstformen/natur.html (unfortunately only the low resolution images (Bildschirmauflösung) are still available on the page)

All of these are in the public domain now, available in high resolution from here:

https://www.rawpixel.com/search/ernst%20haeckel?page=1&sort=...

I've got several of these on my walls :)

Re: User: Junnn11

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Post by telchior »

I recently needed a 3d model of a crab and found that some similarly obsessive user over at Sketchfab had created dozens (possibly hundreds?) of extremely detailed crab models -- at 500k - 1.5 million tris, so basically unusable for most typical animation needs, but they're beautifully detailed and free for download.

My first thought was that it might be the same person, since they had a Japanese username! But I don't think it actually is; the Sketchfab person has all kinds of natural models. Here's the account in case anyone is interested: https://sketchfab.com/ffishAsia-and-floraZia/models

Re: User: Junnn11

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Post by pndy »

This is definitely way beyond a typical Wikipedia user page with all these medal "trophies" and it really looks great.

In my grade school times, we had this really dedicated biology teacher who believed that being able to properly copy illustrations from books is the key element to understand lesson's subject. So we draw all these organisms, bacteria and viruses with pencils and colored em with either gray shades or pencil crayons and described parts.

Re: User: Junnn11

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Post by mrweasel »

parhamn wrote: post #12

The image tags on that page need `loading="lazy"`. This made me curious what contributing to the wikipedia application (not articles) is like. Anyone have any insight/info on this?

There's a article on how to get started: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hac...
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