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Re:When I lost my hands making flatscreens I can't afford, n... by tzs on Saturday June 13, 2015 @04:06AM (#9710294)
Isn't the instructors point largely undermined by the fact that making nuts by taking hammer and chisel to a block of metal is not how nuts are generally actually made? Here's how nuts are actually made [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kidWBeyOMA0

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Re:When I lost my hands making flatscreens I can't afford, n... by hliyan on Saturday June 13, 2015 @04:54AM (#9710390)
Think of the nut as a metaphor that can apply to any engineering job that the manager doesn't have to get his hands dirty with. I think that was the point.
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Re:When I lost my hands making flatscreens I can't afford, n... by DanBC on Saturday June 13, 2015 @04:44AM (#9710378)
The point is that there is a right way to do things, and a wrong way to do things, and engineers give instructions so they better be careful about what they're asking people to do.

I've had to metaphorically chisel plenty of nuts from a solid block of metal because of some instruction from an engineer somewhere.

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Re:When I lost my hands making flatscreens I can't afford, n... by Gigablah on Saturday June 13, 2015 @04:38AM (#9710364)
No need for the "well-actually", that's not the point. You might as well question whether engineers will be ordering other people to make nuts in the first place.
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