If you had the choice to sculpt a leg chair out of wood or write a full-fledged audio engine, complete with kernel drivers and whatnot, inside an app for controlling monitor brightness, what wou… Wait, no, that's not a question, you would do the leg chair for sure. There's no way that other thing makes sense.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15205399

Really cool blog post with beautiful photos and starts with a fun and interesting intro, here captured in an image for the the tl;dr but-want-to-comment-anyway among you :

  • whoreticulture@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    51·
    8 months ago

    You think people in trades don’t think at work? This is actually just classism or something idk. You really don’t think electricians, contractors, plumbers etc aren’t problem solving on the daily? We’re not talking about working on a factory line.

    • RichieAdler 🇦🇷English
      12·
      8 months ago

      You really don’t think electricians, contractors, plumbers etc aren’t problem solving on the daily?

      General problem solving, probably. Deep thinking? Nah.

      And besides, I doubt most electricians need to apply Kirchhoff’s Law on a daily basis.