That Pretty Much Wraps it Up for hammers I love hammers. So damn much. I enjoy using heavy hammers. I love having some nails and some wood and the flexibility

That Pretty Much Wraps it Up for hammers I love hammers. So damn much. I enjoy using heavy hammers. I love having some nails and some wood and the flexibility to do whatever I want. I love that it imposes a discipline that prevents me from using that flexibility in stupid ways. But between hitting your finger and bent nails I have to wonder if my beloved tool should be retired — at least for everything that could be a carpentry issue. (Which is potentially everything, I suppose.) There are two things that make other tools better for these things: 1) in many tools these particular bugs are impossible, and 2) there are often better tools that can prevent those particular flaws from happening in a chunk of wood. The finger hitting bug is a major hassle. What worries me is that the next time something else might happen — maybe someone hits their toe or breaks their hand. (Or worse.) If we’re serious about protecting ourselves from pain and other malevolent entities, maybe we have to move away from hammers. (I suggest this with great reluctance. And a realization that the cost of this would be huge.) In short, this is click bait and stupid. C is a tool, it's up to the people using it to make sure the tool is used right. What we need is something closer to build codes for software. Right now it looks like some people think that building sky scrapers out of marshmallows is a wonderful idea and anyone pointing out that this is a bad idea is called a Luddite.