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This is kinda inherent in everything, our tech generally moves upwards based on iterations of improvements. Even cheap mass production shitty stuff is still an

This is kinda inherent in everything, our tech generally moves upwards based on iterations of improvements. Even cheap mass production shitty stuff is still an improvement. Or do you mean exactly screws? Really when you get down to it, like computers, tools are used like 30+% of the time to build other better tools. Jigs, more accurate cutters, measurement devices, etc. With code that's things like test frameworks, rpc mechanisms, version control, code gen, etc. In fact in software engineering you're usually seen as a better engineer if you build things indirectly (frameworks) instead of mass production of the solution. Check out the home machine shop series to see how you'd build up a tech stack from basically scrap metal and wood and Sand. The Metal Lathe (Build Your Own Metal Working Shop From Scrap Series Book 2) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007USU8HU/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_GhtlDbT0S827Z https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007USU8HU/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_Gh... The lathe is pretty much the ur-machine, and a lathe is really just screws

nadavr 7y ago
There is an old Jewish tradition (written down in Pirkei Avot ~1700 years ago) which lists the objects that God created "on the eve of the Sabbath at twilight" after finishing the rest of creation. Most of them are religious or mystical in meaning, but the final object listed is "[the original] tongs, for tongs are made with tongs." here's a link to the text https://www.sefaria.org/Pirkei_Avot.5.6?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en https://www.sefaria.org/Pirkei_Avot.5.6?lang=bi&with=all&lan...
- TimTheTinker 7y ago
  That's really interesting. The Tanakh never mentions an "evening and morning" for the Sabbath, unlike the first 6 days.
  - ijidak 7y ago
    Good catch. That's because we're still on the 7th day according to the Tanakh. The form of the verb translated that God "rested" is in fact progressive in the original Hebrew. https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2011525 https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2011525

nadavr 7y ago

There is an old Jewish tradition (written down in Pirkei Avot ~1700 years ago) which lists the objects that God created "on the eve of the Sabbath at twilight" after finishing the rest of creation. Most of them are religious or mystical in meaning, but the final object listed is "[the original] tongs, for tongs are made with tongs." here's a link to the text https://www.sefaria.org/Pirkei_Avot.5.6?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en https://www.sefaria.org/Pirkei_Avot.5.6?lang=bi&with=all&lan...

TimTheTinker 7y ago
That's really interesting. The Tanakh never mentions an "evening and morning" for the Sabbath, unlike the first 6 days.
- ijidak 7y ago
  Good catch. That's because we're still on the 7th day according to the Tanakh. The form of the verb translated that God "rested" is in fact progressive in the original Hebrew. https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2011525 https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2011525