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Ashcans posted:Also you can't have anyone pass you on the stairs or come the opposite way, so best to live alone.
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Bad Munki posted:As an added bonus from that: when you inevitably fall and break your neck, your body can decompose in peace over the next several years. Rule 1 of rendering assistance in an emergency: don't become a casualty yourself. Sorry boss, guess we'll have to leave him up there.
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This is more strategic crappy construction I guess, but I wanted to share. This is my attempt at a subsidence map across Mexico City averaged over several 12 day periods in the last year. Red is about 4cm subsidence, black/blue a few mm. I have been learning to create these with SAR imagery from the European Space Agency and some free software they offer to process the data. Basically the satellite takes an image, then 12 days later takes another from almost the same position relative to the ground. By doing some measuring of the change in phase of the radar engergy coming back, you can detect really subtle changes on the ground. Mexico City is the popular example with something like a meter of subsidence per year in parts of the city to to over use of the underground aquifer. I guess don't buy land there unless you like crazy stuff like this:  
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Leperflesh posted:I like that even the stairs model is feeling unsafe enough to put his arm on the upstairs floor for stability. There are like multiple paths to the bottom! It's the rubix cube of stairways.
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Sep 20, 2018 20:53
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Blue Footed Booby posted:I don't understand how people design things like that and think it's a good idea. Actual photo of my house. The entire ground floor is this, even the kitchen.   I am insured, maybe not insured enough.
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Sep 20, 2018 21:02
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Mercury Ballistic posted:This is more strategic crappy construction I guess, but I wanted to share. So this kind of stuff is always fun for me to see: I work for the Alaska Satellite Facility and interferometry is our bread and butter. Sentinel-1A/B is the current hotness with, I believe, C/D coming up soon which will get full-earth coverage like every two days or something (it's currently like 3 or 6 days, I forget), and then NISAR is coming online in a couple years, which should be a lot of fun. Anyhow, we've been doing some work on automatically processing time series from InSAR stacks in the cloud, lets you actually see the waves of crustal deformation over time, I've seen some of these on glaciers and it's pretty nifty, you may want to look into that sort of thing if this is of interest to you! Also, since you said you're learning to do this, I'll plug our Data Recipes set of guides, it's an ever-growing set of step-by-step guides along the lines of "So you wanna do phase unwrapping" and "Let's track glacier velocity" and things like that, you might find them of use! https://www.asf.alaska.edu/asf-tutorials/data-recipes/
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Awesome! Data recipes are always helpful. I have been making stacks in SNAP and pushing them to Google Earth Engine for processing time series stuff and making medians and whatnot. ASF is awesome btw.
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FogHelmut posted:Actual photo of my house. The entire ground floor is this, even the kitchen. Yikes. I'd look at putting some kind of contrasting color strip along that...unless you hate your guests.
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Mercury Ballistic posted:Awesome! Data recipes are always helpful. I have been making stacks in SNAP and pushing them to Google Earth Engine for processing time series stuff and making medians and whatnot. ASF is awesome btw. It is! I’ve been there since 2005. Not sure if you’ve used vertex or the search api, but those are projects from my team in particular. We’re actually about to start an all new and hopefully much smoother search UI to replace vertex, which is getting super crufty and long in tooth, to go with the hot new search api my team recently moved to production. Exciting stuff, at least for us developers 
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:Yikes. I'd look at putting some kind of contrasting color strip along that...unless you hate your guests. Agreed. You could do construction yellow, but Mexican tiles would be so cute.
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Ashcans posted:Look, you guys are complaining, but as long as you don't expect your stairs to be used by the elderly, children, people who have been drinking, people with vision problems, people with balance problems, anyone with any degree of disability, the clumsy, someone who could sneeze while on the steps, and you can be certain that your house won't suffer an unexpected blackout or any sort of seismic activity, these steps are almost as good as regular stairs! Or people wearing socks.
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Sep 21, 2018 07:51
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Megillah Gorilla posted:They're called architects. this guy is NOT protected
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Sep 21, 2018 09:12
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Do you have shelves in your house?
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Sep 21, 2018 09:18
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Anyway I'm the white thingamajig inexplicably placed on one of the steps.
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Sep 21, 2018 09:18
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Here's some fancy houses to sperg about. Every feature includes a floorplan, including before/after remodels. http://www.hometrip.jp/ Click the dark grey button "さらに記事を読み込む" on the bottom to view more houses.
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Sep 21, 2018 10:24
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Mercury Ballistic posted:This is more strategic crappy construction I guess, but I wanted to share. In one of the books I was reading -- and you'll have to forgive me if I can't remember if it was Why Buildings Stand Up or Why Buildings Fall Down -- the author mentions a theater in Mexico that was so heavy that it sank a story as it squeezed the water out of the underlying soil and they had to install stairs down from street level. Then the surrounding area was built up with much larger buildings, which pushed out the water from under those foundations, and said theater shifted upward so far that it now requires stairs up from street level. It has remained intact despite these massive foundation shifts (which is a credit to whoever built that foundation!).
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Jerry Cotton posted:Anyway I'm the white thingamajig inexplicably placed on one of the steps. That's what I was talking about, plus all the *other* stuff on the steps that they apparently thought were shelves. That one is just egregious.
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Sep 21, 2018 18:17
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 My basement steps. Wife picked it out, I didn’t notice the curvy parts in the sample.
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Sep 22, 2018 18:34
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  more This house confuses me.
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there wolf posted:
That’s....bad rear end?
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there wolf posted:
This house owns owns owns. Too bad it's in Georgia.
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Sep 22, 2018 20:27
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That house is pretty cool, and the stairwell has railings and kind of works? I like it. I even mostly like the colors; when going through the photos I could easily envisage living out a full family life and retirement there, it's strangely appealing.
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Sep 22, 2018 20:32
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Wouldn't pass UK building regulations, unfortunately
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Sep 22, 2018 20:54
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Burt Sexual posted:
She is trying to kill you Burt.
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Queen Combat posted:That house is pretty cool, and the stairwell has railings and kind of works? I like it. I even mostly like the colors; when going through the photos I could easily envisage living out a full family life and retirement there, it's strangely appealing. It's bit quirky without being over-the-top or looking horribly out of place. The bathroom has plenty of storage; the kitchen has a non-retarded work triangle; the back yard is cute and has a neat stone ruin; and there's a bitchin workshop area. You can tell that whoever built/renovated it into its current state knew pretty much exactly what they wanted. And then keeled the gently caress over before finishing the workshop area.
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I guess my deep dislike of spiral staircases isn't shared by everyone. Here's some regular ugly to make up for it. 
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there wolf posted:I guess my deep dislike of spiral staircases isn't shared by everyone. Here's some regular ugly to make up for it. Wait, you posted the house BECAUSE of the spiral staircase? How does it feel to have an opinion that's so incredibly wrong?
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insta posted:Wait, you posted the house BECAUSE of the spiral staircase? How does it feel to have an opinion that's so incredibly wrong? Like I'm much smarter than everyone around me, of course.  Spiral staircases suck, and I feel like everyone who falls over how cool they are has probably never been up or down one with any regularity, much less carrying something. But more than that, this set is placed dead-center in a room so it can take up as much space as possible despite being a space-saving design. It's dumb and y'all are weird for liking it.
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there wolf posted:Like I'm much smarter than everyone around me, of course. Man I miss my buttons itt
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I can sympathise a bit. I have size 15 feet which means, apart from the nightmare of finding good shoes, that a lot of staircases are drat near deathtraps for me. Tight spiral staircases especially. They're like, "Okay, here's room for one foot when you're going down. What about the other foot you ask? gently caress you, that's what."
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Megillah Gorilla posted:I have size 15 feet... Username/post combo is on point this morning.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:I can sympathise a bit. I have size 15 feet which means, apart from the nightmare of finding good shoes, that a lot of staircases are drat near deathtraps for me. It's a sign you were supposed to stay in the basement.
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Reminds me of the optical illusion built into the Primorsky/Potemkin Steps in Odessa, Ukraine. https://www.amusingplanet.com/2014/08/potemkin-stairs-odessa.html From the top, the steps disappear and the landings seem to form one solid, flat expanse. From the bottom, you don't see the landings, so it looks like a never-ending line of steps up to the horizon. PROTIP: gently caress the stairs, take the funicular.
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"I want to be able to gently caress on as many surfaces as possible without compromising food prep" Also that's probably around a thousand bucks in upholstery depending on what materials they used.
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Azza Bamboo posted:The oven looks like it's going It will do when it overheats.
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there wolf posted:I guess my deep dislike of spiral staircases isn't shared by everyone. Here's some regular ugly to make up for it. Liberace's old digs?
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Ah, European hotel rooms: That is the room's subpanel.
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Phanatic posted:Ah, European hotel rooms: Uh huh. I've lived in houses powered by something like that.
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