• Venator@lemmy.nz
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    1 month ago

    Tbf a lot of things that people did by hand in the past would be unthinkable for a lot of modern people as to how to achieve it without CAD etc.

    • TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works
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      1 month ago

      This is so true, mostly because we are spoiled by growing up with modern tools. We are many generations of tools separated from our roots. Standing on the shoulders of giants and all that.

      On the other hand, if an EMP took out the grid and CAD disappeared, you can be damn sure engineers amongst us would be bashing rocks together and figure a lot of it out pretty quickly.

      We will brute force anything as a species if we need to, we just mostly don’t need to at the moment, and time is money.