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Maybe I'm too "linuxy" but I think if there's a method to do it yourself by learning a skill then that should be the preferred way to do it. Having a machine in
by erikb 11y ago
Maybe I'm too "linuxy" but I think if there's a method to do it yourself by learning a skill then that should be the preferred way to do it. Having a machine instead of a skill is a way for lazy people (my subjective opinion) and never works as well as having acquired the corresponding skill.
edit: And the gun wasn't made in his office. Only one part was made there. The assembly of the gun was done in a shop of a professional gunsmith.
- jokr004 11y ago"I'm too "linuxy"" .. "Having a machine instead of a skill is a way for lazy people" There's a good balance between skill and technology, otherwise I might tell you to just throw away your computer. And for the record, operating a CNC mill still takes a good bit of skill.
- erikb 11y agoYou mean the machine to manually carve holes into that metal? Yes, that needs skill. But I mean the machine that does the carving for you. As far as I've understood you put that 80% thing into it and then it does the job for you while you eat a sandwich. That's where people start to think that they don't have a problem instead of learning to handle it.
- panglott 11y agoNever shirk in learning skills. But there's just too much to learn. http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/rdPncl1.html http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/rdPncl1.html
- lmm 11y agoDo you make your own furniture? Grow your own food? Learning skills is great, but there's a place for buying things off the shelf. And that's the point of this machine: it's intended to be equivalent to buying a gun off the shelf, just while avoiding the registration requirements that would go with actually buying one off the shelf.