You, a civilized person, using "reinventing the wheel" as a metaphor.
Me, just crawling up to the starting line of homo sapiens, actually trying to reinvent the wheel from first principles.
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I'm planning a little experiment, where I try to design the same wheel in line half a dozen different ways
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Though maybe I'm getting ahead of myself and should try to reinvent "stick" first if I'm being really thorough about it
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it was kinda fussy getting the steering column positioned right above the centerline of the wheel for turning without dragging (next version will have a barrel shaped wheel to allow for turning on a point...). Still haven't gotten it quite right due to clearance issues
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The breakthrough wasn't the wheel but the roller bearing, the "wheel within a wheel."
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nah... roller bearings weren't invented till pretty late in the game. Basic sleeve bearings and even just rollers with no axles were likely used for millennia first.
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