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Re:As a developer, my most important tools are a pen and a n... by mediaman on Wednesday May 28, 2025 @01:42PM (#44118627)
That’s funny, because if you go into any machine shop you’ll find machinists writing things down in notebooks (and probably cursing engineers who never set foot in the shop).
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Re:As a developer, my most important tools are a pen and a n... by noosphr on Wednesday May 28, 2025 @07:59PM (#44121704)
Those are job shops, there are no old school production lines left in the US. Here's what they used to look like from a century ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa0PAg7FfMk&t=350s
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Re:As a developer, my most important tools are a pen and a n... by mediaman on Saturday May 31, 2025 @07:28PM (#44147645)
There are no more “old school” production lines left? I’m not sure what you mean; obviously there are a lot of production lines in the US, including the manufacturing of engine blocks as shown here.

Do you mean that they use robots today and therefore aren’t “old school”? That’s true in most industrialized economies.

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