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Re:Using Claude Code to modernize a forgotten Linux kernel d... by Ygg2 on Monday September 08, 2025 @09:24AM (#45167964)
You can design furniture without nails or screws. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_carpentry

Reason Japanese carpenters do or did that is that sea air + high humidity would absolutely rot anything with nail and screw.

No furniture is really designed from a single tree, though. They aren't massive enough.

I agree with overall sentiment. But the analogy is higly flawed. You can't compare physical things with software. Physical things are way more constrained while software is super abstract.

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Re:Using Claude Code to modernize a forgotten Linux kernel d... by oldsecondhand on Monday September 08, 2025 @01:24PM (#45171067)
> Reason Japanese carpenters do or did that is that sea air + high humidity would absolutely rot anything with nail and screw.

The other reason was that iron was very expensive in Japan as they had only low quality iron ore.

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Re:Using Claude Code to modernize a forgotten Linux kernel d... by jama211 on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @03:44PM (#45202641)
I can and will compare them, analogies don’t need to be perfect so long as they get a point across. That’s why they’re analogies, not direct perfect comparisons.

I very much enjoy the Japanese carpentry styles that exist though, off topic but very cool.

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