What the fuck is that picture? Jesus Christ. I didn’t know body horror applied to robots too.
Yeah, the convenience of everyone having internet has shortened development cycles and meant everything is shipped with less testing and is available for constant rework/improvement.
It’s really nice sometimes to admire early software because of how cobbled-together it was and would still work well-enough.
I told a younger coworker that computers before broadband still had bugs, but generally worked because shipping updates was a challenge. Now everything is half-assed because a patch is a click away.
And the bugs were (usually) reliable, so if you found a workaround on your own or just avoided causing the bug, you would get a consistent experience.
Now it feels like each deployment ends up breaking something new.
Yeah, because it works? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn2FB1P_Mn8
Today I fixed a carrier’s router by simply rebooting it, something was messed up with port forwarding, everything looked good on the webui, but it didn’t worked correctly. Reboot, bam, works.
As more things become “smart” (for the better or worse) and filled with microprocessors, it will become more common. Also it’s not just digital I remember some analog things could be helped by a reboot, the extra surge after a switch on can help some electrical components, waiting for capacitors to loose current can help.
And electric toothbrushes are much older, the first patent was filed in 1937. 40 years ago it was 1985, cordless electric toothbrushes are with us since 1960s…
And 40 years ago we couldn’t chat about an article with people on the other side of the planet, so I don’t really understand the comparison. Yes, Mr. Chen you are becoming older, as everyone else, wow, nice observation… The common workflows to fix your medieval daily things back in the day were different, obviously, we have different workflows now. I guess you couldn’t help your great-grandparent troubleshoot an issue with the gadgets of their time.
An actual problem is in the last sentence of the blog post, and nor the author of the article, nor Mr. Chen thinks of this as a much more bigger problem:
Oh, by the way, my attempts to reboot the electric toothbrush were unsuccessful. I had to replace it.
That shouldn’t be a solution. ONLY AFTER RESTARTING SOME TIME? No other ways were tried to fix it? Did he tried too take it apart an look for some clear problems? You should be able to fix it. Maybe just the battery died? or if the battery is alright, you can reuse that in your next toothbrush. I would restart a thing a million times instead of throwing it out. They are yelling at the wrong thing, and ignore the elephant.
Rebooting Shoes killed me 🤣
