People have been grumbling about that since the invention of fences.
Software, the Tough Tomato Principle, and the Great Weirdening of the World
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Re: Software, the Tough Tomato Principle, and the Great Weirdening of the World
#12 The Valley of Mismatch
The Tough Tomato Principle is not a mere side effect of innovation.
It’s necessary for the new technology to express its full potential.
You can’t use your shiny new tomato harvester until you’ve got the
tomato that goes with it.
Re: Software, the Tough Tomato Principle, and the Great Weirdening of the World
#13>> One instance of the Tough Tomato Principle is particularly interesting: when people are the tomatoes that have to fit their new technological paradigm. Sounds like a lot of people are going to be thrown out.
No. People are going to change to adapt to the new environment:
Taste and nutritional quality were secondary to machine compatibility.
(Read "nutritional" in the sense that Harvey Keitel means it with regards to people. Or was that Michael Caine?)
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#14When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail principle. Come on admit, you've hammered in a screw before. Good easy read though.
Come on admit, you've hammered in a screw before
Nope. Never. I take "everything" to be an exaggeration for effect. I've only hammered in peg-like or nail-like objects.
I will totally admit to pliering in a screw, however.
Re: Software, the Tough Tomato Principle, and the Great Weirdening of the World
#15When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail principle. Come on admit, you've hammered in a screw before. Good easy read though.
Come on admit, you've hammered in a screw before Nope. Never. I take "everything" to be an exaggeration for effect. I've only hammered in peg-like or nail-like objects. I will totally admit to pliering in a screw, however.
I do, sometimes, to get them started specially into hard wood (not necessarily hardwood), from there a driver will take over.
Re: Software, the Tough Tomato Principle, and the Great Weirdening of the World
#16The Valley of Mismatch The Tough Tomato Principle is not a mere side effect of innovation. It’s necessary for the new technology to express its full potential. You can’t use your shiny new tomato harvester until you’ve got the tomato that goes with it. We're seeing a lot of this in blockchain.
The problem with blockchain is that a significant percentage of people who are bullish on blockchain are only bullish because they think it will negate the need for governance.
They fail to see that many systems they want to replace with blockchain only exist because of the need for governance. The governance came first, then we designed a system around the rules we needed.
Re: Software, the Tough Tomato Principle, and the Great Weirdening of the World
#17When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail principle. Come on admit, you've hammered in a screw before. Good easy read though.
I'm reading it more as "If the only tool everyone has is hammers, everything will be done with nails"
And screws will be refined to lose those hard-to-hammer threads and that unreliable taper.
Re: Software, the Tough Tomato Principle, and the Great Weirdening of the World
#18This is an old one:
"We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us"
https://mcluhangalaxy.wordpress.com/2013/04/01/we-shape-our-...
Re: Software, the Tough Tomato Principle, and the Great Weirdening of the World
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Come on admit, you've hammered in a screw before Nope. Never. I take "everything" to be an exaggeration for effect. I've only hammered in peg-like or nail-like objects. I will totally admit to pliering in a screw, however.
I do, sometimes, to get them started specially into hard wood (not necessarily hardwood), from there a driver will take over.
Drill a pilot hole of the correct size (as wide as the screw shaft without the threads). You will have a much easier time, and you won't split the wood.
https://www.ezwoodshop.com/blog/pilot-hole/perfect-pilot-hol...
Re: Software, the Tough Tomato Principle, and the Great Weirdening of the World
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
I do, sometimes, to get them started specially into hard wood (not necessarily hardwood), from there a driver will take over.
Drill a pilot hole of the correct size (as wide as the screw shaft without the threads). You will have a much easier time, and you won't split the wood. https://www.ezwoodshop.com/blog/pilot-hole/perfect-pilot-hol...
Of course, I meant if you don’t have those things at your disposal at a given time.