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New comment by josh_s in "Knitting bullshit"

josh_s — Wed, 06 May 2026 09:36:24 +0000

The AI images were deliberate and part of the narrative. Ie, you can generate slop with zero effort.

from TFA: "All of the images in this post were generated by an ai in response to the simple two-word prompt “lovely knitting”

Edit: ps: Kate Davies is an actual creator who has been creating knitting patterns for years.

New comment by josh_s in "I’m spending months coding the old way"

josh_s — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 20:15:57 +0000

Miro.com is one of the few SaaS products that our team's collaboration could not live without.

Perfect for a distributed team to replace the DO NOT ERASE white boards of yore.

New comment by josh_s in "Bye Bye Gmail"

josh_s — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 21:37:53 +0000

Single best thing I've done to get control over my public email:

* add a filter that moves all email with "unsubscribe" into an "unsubscribe" folder

combined with fastmail spam filtering, my inbox actually became usable again instantly...

New comment by josh_s in "BYD Bets on Budget EV Boom with Atto 1 Debut in Indonesia"

josh_s — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 08:44:37 +0000

US automakers typically spend more per car on advertising than they spend on labor to build. Labor costs are often under 15% of total cost depending on the model. So even if they paid workers 50% more than today's wages, the cost of the car would "balloon" less than dealer markup.

Unions are not making American cars uncompetitive.

New comment by josh_s in "Driverless Semi Trucks Are Here, with Little Regulation and Big Promises"

josh_s — Fri, 30 May 2025 01:34:20 +0000

We are in agreement with the burden. Perhaps my point was not well made:

At the time farmers were being made destitute by industrialization we also invented the modern education system. This was a massive societal investment to compensate for the reduced number of farmers needed.

There needs to be a similar level of commitment to establishing a viable future for those displaced by AI. So see no indication that this investment will happen.

New comment by josh_s in "Driverless Semi Trucks Are Here, with Little Regulation and Big Promises"

josh_s — Thu, 29 May 2025 08:00:19 +0000

At a national and global scale, farmers moved to the cities to get work in factories operating the new machinery of industrialisation. And some were, or their children were, educated to become clerks based on a systemic development of education, ie RWr+aR. These clerks were critical to help account for all the widgets being created by industrialisation.

Point being, it was not accidental what happened to farmers during industrialisation of food production. they had a path. they were not left with nothing. so back to you. what next for out of work drivers or their children?

New comment by josh_s in "The Woman Who Gave the Macintosh a Smile (2018)"

josh_s — Sun, 06 Jun 2021 03:22:55 +0000

Very calming as it mimics slow, relaxed breathing. Patented by Apple in 2002. https://patents.google.com/patent/US6658577