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We're not innovating, we're just forgetting slower

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139 points obscurette | 1 comments | 04 Jul 25 14:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.309s | source
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raincole ◴[04 Jul 25 16:04 UTC] No.44465682[source]▶
> They can deploy applications to Kubernetes clusters but couldn’t design a simple op-amp circuit

And the ones who can design a op-amp circuit can't manufacture the laminate their circuit is going to be printed on. And the ones who know how to manufacture the laminate probably doesn't know how to refine or synthesize the material from the minerals. And probably none of them knows how to grow and fertilize the crop to feed themselves.

No one knows everything. Collaboration has been how we manage complexity since we were biologically a different species than H. sapiens.

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msgodel ◴[04 Jul 25 17:29 UTC] No.44466369[source]▶
In theory. The socialization premium is getting high enough that you are actually often better off doing everything on your own again.
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1. WillAdams ◴[04 Jul 25 19:02 UTC] No.44467027[source]▶
That's a tough row to hoe --- classic example of that is a pencil (see Thoreau and his family's history/business), though interestingly, there is a specialized tool now for making one (from components):

John Economaki's "Pencil Precision" from Bridge City Tool Works:

https://bridgecitytools.com/products/pp-1-pencil-precision

I have the preceding "Chopstick Master v2" and it is a delight to use (and probably if there was a suitable set of instructions for collecting the materials for making a pencil lead and baking them, I'd probably have the successor).