josh_s

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by josh_s 4mo ago
yep, and that's what we see a lot of round here. this is still not driving pre-fab adoption. ie, a single family dwelling selling for $3m, knocked down and replaced with 8x apartments sold for $750k. no interest doing a prefab single f
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by josh_s 4mo ago
Lots of interest comments on the efficiency of building homes. The bigger issue is the cost of land. The differential for land to build is often 10:1. So even if the prefab shave 10-20% the price for a custom build, it's still not maki
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by josh_s 4mo ago
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
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by josh_s 5mo ago
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.
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by josh_s 8mo ago
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 us
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by josh_s 1y ago
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 th
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by josh_s 1y ago
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 f
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by josh_s 1y ago
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 educa
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by josh_s 5y ago
Very calming as it mimics slow, relaxed breathing. Patented by Apple in 2002. https://patents.google.com/patent/US6658577