• ddh@lemmy.sdf.org
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    4 days ago

    And if Gutenberg had just written faster, he would’ve produced more books in the first week?

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      4 days ago

      I’m not sure if the Gutenberg Press had only produced one readable copy for every 100 printed it would have been the literary revolution that it was.

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        3 days ago

        I agree not brilliant, but It’s early days. If one is looking to mechanise a process like finding bugs, you have to start somewhere. Determine how to measure success, set performance baselines and all that.

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      4 days ago

      I get your point, but your comparison is a little… off. Wasn’t Gutenberg “printing”, not “writing”?

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        4 days ago

        You’re right, probably better put as: if he’d spent his time writing instead of working on that contraption, he’d have produced more books in the first month.