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LeifCarrotson 1y ago
I'll have to share this next week at my tiny, 20-person shop. We have a machine shop and an engineering group. ISO9001/AS9100 have stringent requirements about CAD models and print lifecycles and document management, which frequently add friction. We've got engineers who are good with their hands and could build most of the designs themselves without committing anything to CAD, and machinists/fabricators who are smart and could probably design most of the things they're building without needing a print to work towards. It's only the formal communication layer in the print release process which forces us to have accurate drawings of the things we've made and have to think through the whole design before putting a piece of steel in the mill.
- pixl97 1y ago
  I mean the problem with software is we dont do that. I've been in so many businesses where a piece of software is turned over with almost no documentation and a partial API spec. Like, thats like a quarter of a blueprint with "do the needful" written on one corner.
- 4star3star 1y ago
  Why don't you invest in some 3D scanning equipment/software. Build the physical object or close to it, then scan it and tweak it in software, doing the whole process backwards.
  - 0x696C6961 1y ago
    A 3D scan of an object doesn't help that much if you need drawings. You're still basically doing it from scratch.
no_wizard 1y ago
>Bezos vowed to run Amazon with an emphasis on decentralization and independent decision-making Well that lasted about 10 years or so. RTO mandate is the exact opposite of this.
- renewiltord 1y ago
  I'd think it's perfectly in line with this. He wants seamless fusion at the team level. So everyone has to act uniformly consistent with that. That seems natural to me.
- cheschire 1y ago
  What if one of the motivators of RTO was to lower the value of rural land? During COVID, a lot of places that were considered untenable from a commuting perspective suddenly became viable options under remote work. But under RTO everyone would have to move closer to their offices again. This would then enable the rich to more easily transfer their wealth into rural land in order to hedge a perceived coming recession. Bezos et al would benefit directly from this. I know. It’s silly.
  - SR2Z 1y ago
    Do you think that the recession would make it worth more or less? Hard for me to see how this makes sense.
    - deleted 1y ago
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  - esseph 1y ago
    There's some evidence that it may be tied to commercial real estate value, in some cases.
- hinkley 1y ago
  Are you accusing a billionaire of being a hypocrite? Whaaaat?
- 1y ago
hinkley 1y ago
I think there’s a way this could have been said that I would completely agree with but I wonder how the game of telephone from this expression of the idea has panned out for them overall. Maybe that explains why AWS is a wall of completely distinct tools with cryptic names nobody else has a fucking clue what they mean unless they use them all the time.

LeifCarrotson 1y ago

I'll have to share this next week at my tiny, 20-person shop. We have a machine shop and an engineering group. ISO9001/AS9100 have stringent requirements about CAD models and print lifecycles and document management, which frequently add friction. We've got engineers who are good with their hands and could build most of the designs themselves without committing anything to CAD, and machinists/fabricators who are smart and could probably design most of the things they're building without needing a print to work towards. It's only the formal communication layer in the print release process which forces us to have accurate drawings of the things we've made and have to think through the whole design before putting a piece of steel in the mill.

pixl97 1y ago
I mean the problem with software is we dont do that. I've been in so many businesses where a piece of software is turned over with almost no documentation and a partial API spec. Like, thats like a quarter of a blueprint with "do the needful" written on one corner.
4star3star 1y ago
Why don't you invest in some 3D scanning equipment/software. Build the physical object or close to it, then scan it and tweak it in software, doing the whole process backwards.
- 0x696C6961 1y ago
  A 3D scan of an object doesn't help that much if you need drawings. You're still basically doing it from scratch.

no_wizard 1y ago

>Bezos vowed to run Amazon with an emphasis on decentralization and independent decision-making Well that lasted about 10 years or so. RTO mandate is the exact opposite of this.

renewiltord 1y ago
I'd think it's perfectly in line with this. He wants seamless fusion at the team level. So everyone has to act uniformly consistent with that. That seems natural to me.
cheschire 1y ago
What if one of the motivators of RTO was to lower the value of rural land? During COVID, a lot of places that were considered untenable from a commuting perspective suddenly became viable options under remote work. But under RTO everyone would have to move closer to their offices again. This would then enable the rich to more easily transfer their wealth into rural land in order to hedge a perceived coming recession. Bezos et al would benefit directly from this. I know. It’s silly.
- SR2Z 1y ago
  Do you think that the recession would make it worth more or less? Hard for me to see how this makes sense.
  - deleted 1y ago
    [deleted]
- esseph 1y ago
  There's some evidence that it may be tied to commercial real estate value, in some cases.
hinkley 1y ago
Are you accusing a billionaire of being a hypocrite? Whaaaat?
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hinkley 1y ago

I think there’s a way this could have been said that I would completely agree with but I wonder how the game of telephone from this expression of the idea has panned out for them overall. Maybe that explains why AWS is a wall of completely distinct tools with cryptic names nobody else has a fucking clue what they mean unless they use them all the time.