>>>> This thing is called a chain whip. No, it’s not what you think. It’s a wrench, but with no way to close the chain into a ring. So how can you use it to grip anything? It's for grabbing a sprocket on a bike wheel.
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The Periodic Table of Tools
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#33This displays what I would consider to be a fairly limited knowledge of tools. Saws, for instance, take a variety of forms, and lumping all of the large ones into "big saws" rather ignores the fact that their use is fundamentally dependent on what kind of saw they are. Not their size. And perplexingly, miniature table saws are lumped in with other big saws. I'd also submit that a bung hole auger (lumped in with antiq…
Too pedantic. I don't think the categories are meant to imply that the tools are similar to each other.
Agree about pedantic. But “periodic table” for me implies some similarity.
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#34Could they have chosen a worse image to depict Screwdriver Bits? https://periodictableoftools.com/Images/002/002.640.jpg
Haha I had the opposite reaction. This page was worth checking out for that alone.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not criticizing you for this, obviously, but "heavier" is a silly attribute to increase as you go down the table. It makes sense for the actual periodic table, but here something like "complexity" "modernity" or "scale" would have made much more sense (to me, obviously).
But atoms literally get heavier as you go down the table. If the actual elements were ordered in complexity of compounds, hydrogen would be at the bottom of the table, and periodic table posters would have to come with a special “carbon” sticker to attach to the floor.
Yes, I'm agreeing that mass (or more accurately, proton count) makes sense for the elements. I'm saying it doesn't make sense for tools.
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#36Was I alone in expecting software engineering tools?
It would probably be very interesting, since everything old is new. A column with RRD/Graphite/Grafana, inetd/systems/Kubernetes, fat/ext2/btrfs, Lustre/GlusterFS/Ceph, grep/ack/ripgrep
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#37I find myself unreasonably frustrated by this arrangement. "Screwdriver Bits" are not the base level of the screwdriver column -- "Screwdrivers" are. And the second column from left is just a mess: stampers are similar to rivets are similar to nail guns... how? I'm sure this is a personal preference thing but (to me) the columns should be thematically similar, off the top of my head (I am not skilled at manufacturing…
I'm sure there are more. things that have just broken a flower vase, things that tremble as if they were mad, suckling pigs
I'm not sure how this is a valid criticism? I gave actual categories of things-tools-do. You just made up nonsense tasks?
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm sure there are more. things that have just broken a flower vase, things that tremble as if they were mad, suckling pigs
I'm not sure how this is a valid criticism? I gave actual categories of things-tools-do. You just made up nonsense tasks?
It's a reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_Emporium_of_Benevole...
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#39I really like the idea but it needs to be a giant poster. On my 13" laptop screen it's so tiny and so compact that it presents an all-out high-frequency visual information assault on my senses. It's very unsettling and uncomfortable to use, for that reason. I really just want everything to be spread out a bit more.
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#40Just today I put https://mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/book/9780762498307 on my Amazon wish list.