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You can design furniture without nails or screws. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_carpentry https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_carpentry Rea
by Ygg2 1y ago
You can design furniture without nails or screws. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_carpentry https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_carpentry
Reason Japanese carpenters do or did that is that sea air + high humidity would absolutely rot anything with nail and screw.
No furniture is really designed from a single tree, though. They aren't massive enough.
I agree with overall sentiment. But the analogy is higly flawed. You can't compare physical things with software. Physical things are way more constrained while software is super abstract.
- oldsecondhand 1y ago> Reason Japanese carpenters do or did that is that sea air + high humidity would absolutely rot anything with nail and screw. The other reason was that iron was very expensive in Japan as they had only low quality iron ore.
- jama211 1y agoI can and will compare them, analogies don’t need to be perfect so long as they get a point across. That’s why they’re analogies, not direct perfect comparisons. I very much enjoy the Japanese carpentry styles that exist though, off topic but very cool.