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treetalker wrote 1 hour 51 min ago:
Other knitting articles for background (knitting machine; programming
the machine; etc.) are linked on the same site here:
URI [1]: https://soup.agnescameron.info/index.html
mtVessel wrote 4 hours 28 min ago:
I applaud their restraint. Me, I would've been compelled to title it,
"Kniterate Knotes".
freedomben wrote 3 hours 51 min ago:
I used to live near a town called "Knik" which all the locals
pronounced with a hard "K" like "Kuh-nick". It launched a terrible
habit of intentionally pronouncing silent K on all words, which was
way more fun that it should have been. I started using all sorts of
phrases just so I could pronounce the hard K, like "Don't get your
kuh-nickers in a twist". I also started using a handle of "The
Knight of Knik" which I of course pronounced as "The Kuh-nite of
Kuh-nik", which then I shortened to "The Knik Knight" (pronounced
"Kuh-nik Kuh-night"). I likewise applaud the author's restraint.
stavros wrote 5 hours 37 min ago:
This looks interesting but I have no idea what it's talking about. I
assume this is how non-techies feel when reading a programming article.
kruffalon wrote 4 hours 37 min ago:
This is a programming article, just not in your subfield.
If you have any programming background and some time to aquiantence
yourself with the specific words and aspects of this kind of
programming I'm sure it will make sense to you too :)
stavros wrote 4 hours 34 min ago:
It's mostly the knitting terms I don't know, not so much the
engineering ones. Fairisle, Jacquard, etc.
oh_my_goodness wrote 4 hours 1 min ago:
Possibly you might be missing the point. Unless maybe this
comment is subtle humor?
kruffalon wrote 1 hour 57 min ago:
If it is subtle humour it's too subtle for me ;)
microflash wrote 4 hours 56 min ago:
Indeed. Iâm also quite lost but it caught the eye of an
acquaintance. Hopefully, weâll have a discussion over tea about it.
To me, knitting seems to be such an intimate art where a person pours
their skill and heart. When I wrap myself in the sweater that my
grandmother knit for me in a city far away from home, I feel her
presence and love in the patterns woven in the fabric, wondering what
sheâd have been thinking while knitting. âI was thinking about
the latest mischief of our naughty goats and this boy frolicking
along with them.â Sheâd answer whenever someone asked.
Programming and automating this takes away all that intimacy out of
that art but I guess it is inevitable for the âengineeringâ
minds. Maybe thereâs a wonder to it just by exploring the
possibilities, albeit through machines.
WillAdams wrote 4 hours 42 min ago:
The thing is, early knitting machines were advertised by showing
them competing against "mighty fishermen of many years" since it
was deemed a necessary activity for fishing communities in winter.
View it as an extension of Jaquard looms and the punch cards used
for them being the precursors of modern computers.
c.f., the Native American representations of Intel chip designs:
URI [1]: https://kottke.org/24/09/a-navajo-weaving-of-an-intel-pent...
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