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Are your mills in a similar state? I’m no machinist, but I would think it hard to stay in business when the means of production are constantly down for unplanne
by ip26 5y ago
Are your mills in a similar state? I’m no machinist, but I would think it hard to stay in business when the means of production are constantly down for unplanned service.
Screwdrivers are more of a consumable than a capital good.
- avgcorrection 5y agoThey said “If I operate a machine shop”. So presumably just another programmer making up an analogy with insufficient background knowledge so that we can nitpick the details of it.
- zemvpferreira 5y agoPresumably. Those statements would be insulting to most professional machinists, carpenters and others who take good care of the tools/infrastructure that provide their job and keeps their digits in place. To not speak of an actual industrial facility producing high-quality or high-volume items. In fact, so much care is put into infrastructure that most people/shops have lots of tools they have designed and built themselves at great expense to streamline their operations.
- ClumsyPilot 5y agoI don't know why yo'd make arguments by analogy, which are flawed by default, on a topic you are not versed in
- fsckboy 5y agomachine shops are full of old mills. It's a capital item, you use it as long as you can to extract value, and they last a looong time.