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Re:My friends who cheated in interviews are getting promoted by mywittyname on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @11:11AM (#35888538)
> There's an inescapable objective success or failure indicator that no amount of posturing can overcome.

Because of this statement, I feel like I finally understand the aversion in the woodworking community to pocketholes and CNCs.

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Re:My friends who cheated in interviews are getting promoted by drivers99 on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @11:56AM (#35889212)
How so? If it's objective, and a CNC or pockethole based chair holds up, wouldn't it be accepted?
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Re:My friends who cheated in interviews are getting promoted by petsfed on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @01:37PM (#35890654)
The point is that without pockethole jigs or CNC, certain "wood workers" couldn't build anything that actually held up.

Its not an aversion to the technique per se, its an aversion to the kind of person who uses them for everything.

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