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I find that physical work is different but not simpler than programming. Yes there are only 3 dimensions, but there are lots of layers of important "details" th

• fc417fc802 1y ago
  > digital work only deals with "ideal" objects, which simplifies a lot I'm not clear what you mean by that. Most of the library code I deal with is far from ideal (IMO). Even most of the things I implement aren't ideal because either I'm interacting with the real world or even if not I don't want to spend unlimited time fully generalizing it. As a concrete example, absolutely nothing that touches floating point arithmetic is "ideal" in any sense of the word.
  • jbverschoor 1y ago
    You can swap out or improve your library at any stage. That’s kind of hard with a foundation, or other materials