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We absolutely do have those conferences! I've been to dozens. Lots of idealists and evangelicals in the woodworking world as well, probably more so than any ot
by casion 4y ago
We absolutely do have those conferences! I've been to dozens.
Lots of idealists and evangelicals in the woodworking world as well, probably more so than any other world I've been in. Makes technology look fairly tame.
- SeanLuke 4y agoYou've been to dozens of conferences about hammers?
- galangalalgol 4y agoThey have hand held precision cnc machines that use computer vision to register to the work piece and compensate for human error and execute the file. I can't wait for people to start asking stable diffusion or dall-e for ideas. "unusual danish modern canopy bed 85mm" I'm sure they won't run out of advances to talk about. And people keep reviving old techniques that got ignored too, or ones from other cultures.
- IgorPartola 4y agoA conference about hammers is closer to a conference on arrays. But a conference on carpentry is closer to a conference on novel algorithms and memory structures.
- SeanLuke 4y agoBut we're talking about neither. We're talking about a conference on C.
- catach 4y agoSeems like this particular branch is talking about the suitability of using woodworking for the analogy.
- EddySchauHai 4y agoAnd this is why I love HN so much haha
- SomeBoolshit 4y agoThey're about to release Hammer 2, it's gonna be a subscription.
- Forge36 4y agoWe have so many handles. Wood, metal, plastic. A variety of heads! Sand-filled (dead-blow), brass, plastic, hardened metal, soft metal. A subscription to deal with the wear-and-tear is probably only needed for the larger shops.
- brudgers 4y agoDid you mean "an AI powered cloud based subscription in Rust?" OK, maybe Rust isn't such a good idea here.
- vitaminCPP 4y agoCan you share more details? This is a world I know nothing about.
- casion 4y agoSure, here's one of the larger ones: https://handworks.co/ https://handworks.co/ There are many which are less modernly advertised (usually paper/newsgroup/email) that will draw 100+ people easily. Including planned events with participants in the dozens, Id say you could count at least 100 a year. I'd consider that since that's the population of smaller tech conferences.
- arinlen 4y ago> Sure, here's one of the larger ones: https://handworks.co/ https://handworks.co/ Not to rain on anyone's parade, but that event is about hammers just as much as embedded programming is about C.
- chrisseaton 4y ago> I've been to dozens. Something like 'The 393rd International Conference on Hammers'? With people presenting about the latest developments in hammers and how they're using hammers in new ways? You've been to dozens of those? Not sure I believe you.
- casion 4y agoThe OP said saws and hammers, and there are conferences on hand tools which largely focus on saws, hammers and hand planes. If we want to be literal then I don't know of anything on _just_ saws and hammers, but in the quite adjacent space (one or two hand carpentry tools also a focus) - yes.
- chrisseaton 4y agoWell yeah we do have general conferences on programming languages. But the point is we don't have a specific conference on C, like you wouldn't have a specific conference on a simple hammer.
- adamdusty 4y agoBut tech also has conferences on specific languages. Seems like a JS, C#, C++, Java, python, etc. conference could be analogous to hand tools for carpentry.
- chrisseaton 4y agoExactly - and there isn’t one for C. That’s the whole point of the thread.
- kryptiskt 4y agoComparing programming languages to a specific tool is not the right analogy. A programmer can specialize in C, no carpenter specializes in hammering.
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- agumonkey 4y agoNever saw handtools confs but surely the mechanical woodwork confs have surprisingly large and numerous amount of new tools to show. For hand tools I mostly saw japanese woodworker competitions.