[HN Gopher] Step by Step: Thinking through and beyond the repair...
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Step by Step: Thinking through and beyond the repair manual
Author : drdee
Score : 40 points
Date : 2024-03-18 04:59 UTC (18 hours ago)
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| anonymous_union wrote:
| this is slightly orthogonal but i find manuals written by the
| original equipment manufacturer are better than 3rd parties (ford
| vs haynes for instance)
| istultus wrote:
| Just to point out the beauty of how a clearly defined black-
| and-white mathematical term (just use the dot product!) becomes
| malleable once it enters language as a metaphor. There's great
| humor in being "slightly orthogonal". (Hopefully this doesn't
| come off the wrong way - just my mostly useless degree in
| linguistics acting up again.)
| I_Am_Nous wrote:
| At which point is something slightly orthogonal - perhaps if
| it's between 1 degree and 45 degrees off topic, while if it
| is between 45 degrees and 90 degrees it is considered "fully
| orthogonal."
| bombcar wrote:
| I found it varied wildly - the official manuals were incredibly
| detailed and covered _everything_ - the Chilton guides would
| tell you how to avoid some weird $500 tool by using a crowbar
| and a dead chicken.
| mellutussa wrote:
| Imagine if all our gadgets had a repair manual. Even if it was
| just schematics and assembly guide. Wow.
| 1970-01-01 wrote:
| Service manuals were works of art. Tear a page out of one from
| the 90s, and you can frame it and put it on your office wall as
| art.
|
| https://www.ebay.com/itm/294741882441
| mr337 wrote:
| Not going to lie, I never would have thought someone could sell
| those for $10/each.
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