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I've come to the conclusion that nothing is simple. Nothing. It's only "simple" because thousands of years of work were applied to get us to where we are today
by ronnier 4y ago
I've come to the conclusion that nothing is simple. Nothing. It's only "simple" because thousands of years of work were applied to get us to where we are today and we are building on top of that. It's arrogant to think anything is simple.
Just to build a key cap for this laptop I'm typing on, very difficult if I actually had to do that. I need to use tools that were ultimately kicked off by stone age men thousands of years ago that progressed by building tools with those tools until we go to the point today where we can create a key cap for a laptop.
- mrwh 4y agoI'm sure you know this story already, but nice example: https://gizmodo.com/one-mans-nearly-impossible-quest-to-make-a-toaster-from-5794368 https://gizmodo.com/one-mans-nearly-impossible-quest-to-make...
- ghgr 4y agoThanks for sharing! It brought back to my mind this project of mine (more like a "wish" than an actual project) to build the current technology tree (like Age of Empire's or Factorio's) as a sort of wiki. And of course the wonderful essay by Leonard E. Read "I, Pencil".
- amelius 4y agoA better example would be someone sitting in the middle of a jungle with no access to technology trying to make a toaster from scratch.
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- dwohnitmok 4y agoOh it goes even further than that, all the way to the Big Bang. As Carl Sagan said, “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
- meribold 4y ago> I've come to the conclusion that nothing is simple. Surely it's more complicated than that ;)