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Reminds me of the classic: "Sorry I missed your comment of many months ago. I no longer build software; I now make furniture out of wood. The hours are long, the pay sucks, and there's always the opportunity to remove my finger with a table saw, but nobody asks me if I can add an RSS feed to a DBMS, so there's that :-)"

https://github.com/docker/cli/issues/267#issuecomment-695149...

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Oh hey, that's me; I'm still building furniture! True to form my website still needs an update, but the contact form works. Please feel free to reach out if you have a project to discuss :-)

Shipping is always an option, but it's a lot less if you're a half-day's drive from Vermont. Or somewhere I'd like to go on vacation anyway.

Edited to add: I've got to go stretch my legs after spending the day in front of the computer designing, but I'll check back later and try to field any questions that have popped up.

Keep on keeping on!

I missed this! HN discussion (with an elaboration by the author/woodworker) here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24541964

I remember a quantum information theorist went to become a hard labourer in construction because he thought "physical labour is food for the soul"

And I want to become a quantum theorist. I think being able to manipulate symbols on paper and explain the universe is food for the soul. Grass always seems greener on the other side. :-)

> And I want to become a quantum theorist. I think being able to manipulate symbols on paper and explain the universe is food for the soul. Grass always seems greener on the other side. :-)

I don't think this is a case of "grass always seems greener on the other side", but of getting a job as a quantum theorist. It is hard to find (and keep for a long time) a job in your area of academia. :-(

Honestly I would say labor/exercise is food for the brain. Of course moderation in everything.

Decades ago, Wiesner left academia, embraced Orthodox Judaism, moved from the US to Israel, and took up work there as a construction laborer—believing (or so he told me) that manual labor was good for the soul.

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=5730

Stephen J. Wiesner (1942 – August 12, 2021)[1] was an American-Israeli research physicist, inventor and construction laborer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Wiesner

and that right there is why RSS is dying. :)

RSS is fine. A thing doesn't have to make headlines with VC rounds and take over the world to be alive and well.

Could they add AI to that table saw so it removes fingers more efficiently, that’s the pressing question we’re facing today.

no AI just natural stupidity

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