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its quite fascinating what you can do with really simple tools. some nails, a hammer, a saw, a piece of string, a bubble level, and measurement tools. highly

its quite fascinating what you can do with really simple tools. some nails, a hammer, a saw, a piece of string, a bubble level, and measurement tools. highly optimized tool set.

jacquesm 5y ago
Lovely that you added the piece of string in there, that's about the most multi-functional tool there is. Plumbbob (using a large nail as weight!), level line, marker, fixture (and many others) all at once.
- baremetal 5y ago
  i agree, i couldve just made the statement about string alone. was one of those big intellectual shocks. a whole world opened up when i got into building and learned about the many uses of string. much the same as when i learned to code.
  - stavros 5y ago
    With the difference that in code, unlike building, there should only be one use for a string.
    - jacquesm 5y ago
      Hm. In languages with poor support for other data types strings are use for just about everything that requires unstructured memory.
      - stavros 5y ago
        Yeah I didn't spend enough time on the joke to make it airtight because it was poor ROI :p
- thombat 5y ago
  And far too valuable to discard frivilously - I heard a medieval historian bewailing the cinematic convention of cutting a prisoner's bonds when setting them free, basically "do they not know how many hours of work it took to make a good rope? Nobody poorer than Alexander the Great would go slashing knots!"
  - jacquesm 5y ago
    If a medieval artisan would see us discarding so much incredible stuff without a second's thought they would for sure believe us to be utterly mad. Quite possibly they'd be right.
  - beaconstudios 5y ago
    was it Lindybeige? He has a bit on that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZfpQzV2GnM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZfpQzV2GnM
    - hef19898 5y ago
      I thought of the same. Just wouldn't go as far telling Lindy a historian.
  - inglor_cz 5y ago
    Interesting. I read a book by a Czech resistance guy who managed to escape the death penalty in a Nazi court by feigning enough stupidity and "only" got sentenced to 10 years in prison in Glatz (nowadays Klodzko in Poland). According to him, they spent their prison days working on manually recycling old ropes for the German war effort. In 1944-1945.
- YaBomm 5y ago

its quite fascinating what you can do with really simple tools. some nails, a hammer, a saw, a piece of string, a bubble level, and measurement tools. highly optimized tool set.

jacquesm 5y ago

Lovely that you added the piece of string in there, that's about the most multi-functional tool there is. Plumbbob (using a large nail as weight!), level line, marker, fixture (and many others) all at once.

baremetal 5y ago
i agree, i couldve just made the statement about string alone. was one of those big intellectual shocks. a whole world opened up when i got into building and learned about the many uses of string. much the same as when i learned to code.
- stavros 5y ago
  With the difference that in code, unlike building, there should only be one use for a string.
  - jacquesm 5y ago
    Hm. In languages with poor support for other data types strings are use for just about everything that requires unstructured memory.
    - stavros 5y ago
      Yeah I didn't spend enough time on the joke to make it airtight because it was poor ROI :p
thombat 5y ago
And far too valuable to discard frivilously - I heard a medieval historian bewailing the cinematic convention of cutting a prisoner's bonds when setting them free, basically "do they not know how many hours of work it took to make a good rope? Nobody poorer than Alexander the Great would go slashing knots!"
- jacquesm 5y ago
  If a medieval artisan would see us discarding so much incredible stuff without a second's thought they would for sure believe us to be utterly mad. Quite possibly they'd be right.
- beaconstudios 5y ago
  was it Lindybeige? He has a bit on that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZfpQzV2GnM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZfpQzV2GnM
  - hef19898 5y ago
    I thought of the same. Just wouldn't go as far telling Lindy a historian.
- inglor_cz 5y ago
  Interesting. I read a book by a Czech resistance guy who managed to escape the death penalty in a Nazi court by feigning enough stupidity and "only" got sentenced to 10 years in prison in Glatz (nowadays Klodzko in Poland). According to him, they spent their prison days working on manually recycling old ropes for the German war effort. In 1944-1945.
YaBomm 5y ago